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Collaborations need goals and objectives in order to be effective. Clear, motivating goals provide collaboration members with a sense of opportunity, challenge and consequence, and give the collaboration a sense of purpose. In essence, goals and objectives allow members to understand and participate in what the collaboration is doing. They are most effective when written down and agreed upon. 

 

  • Facilitate a process to define your collaborative goals and objectives.  
  • Determine your goals for how you will achieve the ultimate result of your collaboration (your mission). For example, if your mission is “to improve accessibility to services for all victims of violence,” a goal may be to “train sexual assault service providers to understand barriers to accessibility for Deaf women.”
  • Develop goals/standards for how your collaboration will work. Include goals related to collaborative communication, conflict, negotiation, meetings, leadership and relationships. For example, a goal related to communication may be to “maintain monthly newsletters,” and a goal related to conflict may be to “promptly resolve conflict and learn from the experience to prevent future situations."