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Week
Session
2
3
Topic
MODULE 1
Introduction
What is Collaboration?
BLOG: Pros and Cons of
Collaboration?
DISCUSSION option:
Definitions of Collaboration
DISCUSSION option: Pro and Con Debate
Why has collaboration emerged?
BLOG: What are the trends affecting governance?
DISCUSSIONS:
 Governance trends
 Effect of trends on governance?
Reading
Margerum: Chapter 1
Layzer: Chapter 2
Koontz et al: Chapter 1: Government roles in collaborative environmental management
Other Reading Options:
McCloskey, M. (May 13, 1996). The skeptic: collaboration has its limits. High Country News, Article from on-line archive: http://www.hcn.org
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Wondeolleck and Yaffee (2000) Chapter 1: Building Bridges to a Sustainable Future
Linden (2002) Chapter 1: Why Collaborate? And Why Now?
Layzer: Chapters 1-2
O’Leary: Chapters 1-6 (several options)
Other Reading Options:
Mazmanian, D. A., & Kraft, M. E. (2009). The Three Epochs of the Environmental Movement. In Mazmanian, D. A., &
Kraft, M. E. (Eds.). Toward sustainable communities.
Sabatier, P. A., Weible, C., & Ficker, J. (2005). Eras of water management in the United States: implications for collaborative watershed approaches. In P. A. Sabatier,
W. Focht, M. Lubell, Z. Trachtenberg, A. Vedlitz & M.
Matlock (Eds.), Swimming upstream
Session Plan
 Welcome
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Class interviews
Syllabus and assignment overview
 Stories from practice
 Lecture o What is collaboration o The seven Cs
 Definitions Exercise o Write your own definition o Discuss the key elements
 Analyze elements from other defintions o Highlight elements o Discuss meaning
 Optional exercise (if time): Pro Con Debate about collaboration o Divide class into two groups o Brainstorm among each group o Facilitate a discussion about pros and cons
 Lecture: History of evolving thinking o Pollution control: point to diffuse o Cost of regulation: standards to efficiency o Emergence of ecology o Diffusion of responsibility (social services) o Complexity of problems (metropolitan regions) o Localism and context (local NRM) o Environmental mediation and dispute resolution
 Discussion: How might we cast these different trends in terms of the influence on collaboration o How are these trending towards more centralized vs. collaborative o –or–what are the effects on governance

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5–A
5–B
5–C
What principles underlie collaboration?
BLOG: Why do people collaborate?
EXERCISE: The Prisoner’s
Dilemma
Collaboration in Practice:
Guest Lecture or Guest
Panel
Discussion: How does collaboration compare to definitions? And What differences did you see in practice?
Collaboration in Practice:
Guest Lecture or Guest
Panel
Discussion: How does collaboration compare to definitions? And What differences did you see in practice?
Collaboration in Practice:
Guest Lecture or Guest
Panel
Discussion: How does collaboration compare to definitions? And What differences did you see in practice?
Reading Options:
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Innes and Booher: Chapter 2—How can theory improve practice?
Forester (1999): Chapters 1 and 2
Agranoff and McGuire (2004): Chapter 1—Collaboration at the Core
Case Study Materials
Other Reading Options
Layzer (2011): Chapter 3—Setting Aside Habitat in Austin,
TX
Innes and Booher (2011): Chapter 3—Stories from the Field
Koontz et al (2004): Chapters 2-7 (Case studies)
Weber (2003): Chapter 4—Applegate Partnership; Chapter
5—Henry’s Fork Watershed; Chapter 6—Willapa Alliance
Case Study Materials
Other Reading Options
See 5A
Case Study Materials
Other Reading Options
See 5A
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 1 -2 Lectures from practitioners
 Individual cases or panels
 Option: student-researched case studies
 Discussion o Where we have been successful o Where we have had challenges
 1 -2 Lectures from practitioners
 Individual cases or panels
 Discussion o Where we have been successful o Where we have had challenges
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Lecture: Models of decision making
EXERCISE: Prisoner’s Dilemma
Discussion o o o
Impacts on individual behavior
Role of multi party decision making
Role of informal rules and norms
1 -2 Lectures from practitioners
Individual cases or panels
Discussion o o
Where we have been successful
Where we have had challenges

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1–A
1–B
2
A typology of collaboration
Mini Essay #1: San Diego
Case
DISCUSSION: Classifying cases
MODULE 2
Convening
BLOG: Convening pitfalls
DISCUSSION: Convening
Scenarios
Convening
Optional Part 2
DISCUSSION: Convening
Scenarios II
Facilitation 1
Blog: Facilitator barriers
GROUP EXERCISE:
Facilitation
Margerum: Chapter 2
Layzer: Chapters: 4-6
Other Reading Options:
Cheng and Daniels (2005)
Gray (1989)
Koontz et al (2004)
Margerum: Chapter 3
Carlson (1999): Chapter 4: Convening. In Consensus
Building Handbook Edited by Susskind et al
Margerum: Chapter 3
Carlson (1999): Chapter 4: Convening. In Consensus
Building Handbook Edited by Susskind et al
Susskind and Cruikshank: Chapter 3
Susskind and Cruikshank: Steps 1-2
Margerum: Chapter 4
Schwarz: Chapter 1
Other readings:
Susskind and Cruikshank: Chapter 4-5
Susskind and Cruikshank: Steps 3
O’Leary and Bingham (2009) Part 3: How and Why Public
Managers Get Others to Collaborate (Chaps 11-14)
 ESSAY Question: Analyze the San Diego Coast Scrub Layzer (Ch. 4) using Margerum’s (2011) typology. Use Table 2.2 to help you: o Who are the stakeholders representing? o What are typical positions of stakeholders in their organizations? o What are the roles of citizen input? o What are the groups discussing?
 Typology overview o Levels of operation o Central focus of deliberations
 Discuss San Diego Case: o In groups o Discuss together
 Implications
 BLOG: What could be the pitfalls of certain types of convening approaches?
 Convening issues
 Convening scenarios o Discuss scenarios in groups o Present analysis to class
 Discussion o Issues o Blog Themes
 Part A: Conveneing issues o Focus on context issues o Discuss blog on mandated collaboration
 Part B: Convening issues continued o Discuss forum issues o Expand on brokers and conveners
 Demonstration: Fishbowl o Instructor demonstrates facilitation with volunteers o Debrief on facilitation
 Practice facilitation in groups o 10 minute practice sessions (8min + 2min eval) o Rotate or allow more time

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3
4–A
4–B
Facilitation 2
Blog: Facilitator roles
ROLE PLAYING: The
Facilitator
Schwarz: Chapters 4-5
Forester (1999) Chapters 3 and 4: Consensus building and deliberative opportunities
Emerson (2009) Chapter 12 in The Collaborative Public
Manager Edited by O’Leary and Bingham
Communication 1
Communication concepts [or merge with 4B and focus on active listening skills]
DUE: Case Study Paper
Communication 2
[If 4A focused on communication concepts]:
Blog: Active listening
EXERCISE: Active Listening
Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, F. P. (2000). Chapter 4:
“Communication Within Groups.” In Joining Together
Other readings:
Gouran (1999) Chapter 1–Communication in Groups In The
Handbook of Group Communication Theory and
Research. Sage.
Innes, J. E. (1998). Information in communicative planning.
Journal of the American Planning Assoc, 64(1), 52-63.
Innes and Booher (2010) Chapter 4–The praxis of communication; Chapter 5–Dialogue as a community of inquiry; Chapter 6–Knowledge into action: the role of dialogue. Planning with Complexity. Routledge.
 NOTE: Requires 3 volunteers selected at beginning of class to facilitate scenarios and 4-5 volunteers to participate
 Role Playing Scenarios o 3 Scenarios: Approx 7-8 each o Discussion and debrifing: 7-8 min each
 General discussion
 Possible Guest Lecture (Mediator, ADR Specialist, Facilitator) o Styles of communication o Active listening o Communicating in groups o Strategies to support this
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Could be 2 Lectures
Communication concepts (If no lecture previous week) o Active listening o Kinds of expression
 Exercise: practicing communication skills o Practice active listening o Pratice paraphrasing o Practice clarifying
Could Assign Students to
Present Case Studies
Class
Building Consensus
Blog:
EXERCISE: Distributive v.
Integrative Bargaining
Margerum: Chapter 4
Susskind and Cruikshank: Chapter 6-7
Susskind and Cruikshank: Steps 4-5
Other readings
Agranoff and McGuire (2003) Chapter 4–Collaborative activity and strategy
 Scenarios o Buying a used car o The box of oranges
 Lecture o Distributive bargaining o Integrative bargaining o Conflict management
 Scenario (if time)
 NOTE: Distribute roles for Viper Bird Role Playing and assign stakeholder analysis

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6–B
7–A
7–B
8
1
Group Process
ROLE PLAYING: Viper Bird
Scenario
DUE: Viper Bird Analysis
Group Process
ROLE PLAYING (continued):
Viper Bird Scenario
Group Process
Blog: Debriefing
Consensus Debriefing and
Discussion
Group Process
Consensus Debriefing and
Discussion Part II
High Quality Agreements
Blog: Write goals, objectives and actions
EXERCISE: Plan review and evaluation
MODULE 3
Sustaining Collaboratives
Blog: How would you sustain a collaborative?
None, but can assign readings for facilitator:
None
Susskind and Cruikshank: Chapter 6-7
Margerum: Chapter 4
None
Margerum: Chapter 5
Margerum: Chapter 6
Layzer: Chapter 5
Other Readings with Cases Options
Innes and Booher (2011): Chapter 3—Stories from the Field
Koontz et al (2004): Chapters 2-7 (Case studies)
Weber (2003): Chapter 4—Applegate Partnership; Chapter
5—Henry’s Fork Watershed; Chapter 6—Willapa Alliance
COULD EXTEND OVER TWO SESSIONS
OPTIONAL 2 ND ROLE PLAYING SESSION
 BLOG: Debriefing about role playing
 Viper Bird Discusssion and Debriefing
 COULD EXTEND OVER TWO SESSIONS
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 Exercise: evaluate plans or products
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Lecture
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Viper Bird Discusssion and Debriefing
Leadership
Conflict Resolution
Power in Collaboration o Collaboration products o Defining high quality products o Complete evaluation in teams o Discuss evaluation
Possible Guest Lecture: Collaborative as a Nonprofit or community based organization
Principles of sustaining o Leadership vs Management o Stakeholders vs. Broader DM
 Discussion o Sustaining collaboratives o Challenges and limitations

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2–B
3–A
3–B
4
Social Networks
Mini Essay #2
Blog: What are your networks?
EXERCISE: Use a network to achieve a goal
Social Networks Part 2
Option
See above for assignment and exercise options
Organizational Networks
Blog: What are your networks?
EXERCISE: Use a network to achieve a goal
Organizational Networks
Part 2 Option
Margerum: Chapter 7
Layzer: Chapter 3
Other readings:
Flitcroft et. al 2009. "Social infrastructure to integrate science and practice...." Ecology & Society,14 (2):36
Agranoff, Robert. 2007. Managing within networks.
Georgetown Univ. Press
See above
Margerum: Chapter 7
Agranoff (2007): Chapter 1–Public Networks; Chapter 2–
Networks in Public Management; Chapter 3–Toward a
Network Typology
Huxham, Chris and Siv Vangan. 2005. Managing to collaboration: The theory and practice of collaborative advantage. London: Routledge
See above
Policy Networks and Its
Limitations
Blog: Compare Policy and
Social Networks?
Mini Essay #3 Due
Margerum: Chapter 9
Layzer: Chapter 9
 Mini-Essay: What are the powers and limitations of your social network?
 Introduction to network
 Principles
 Scenario
 Mini-Essay: What are the powers and limitations of your social network?
 Introduction to network
 Principles
 Scenario
 Introduction to network
 Principles
 Scenario
 Further discussion of networks and scenarios
 Preset and compare scenarios
 Introduction to network
 Principles
 Scenario
 Mini Essay #3

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5–B
6
Translation and Evaluation
Blog: Cooperative versus adaptive approach
EXERCISE: Translation
Margerum: Chapter 10
Layzer: Chapter 10
Translation and Evaluation
Part 2 Option
Blog: Evaluation options
EXERCISE: Collaboration forms
Conclusion
Blog: What did you want to discuss in more detail
See above
Margerum: Chapter 11
 Collaboration Forms o passive, cooperative, adaptive o Key questions
 Measuring results
 Group Exercise (likely only time for one exercise)
 1. Questions: which form of collaboration –OR–
 2. Questions: evaluating a collaborative effort
 Collaboration Forms o passive, cooperative, adaptive o Key questions
 Measuring results
 Group Exercise (likely only time for one exercise)
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1. Questions: which form of collaboration –OR–
2. Questions: evaluating a collaborative effort
 Trends o Underlying trends o Key factors affecting collaboration
 Debates o Collaboration and voluntary action o Governance
 Collaboration and Its Alternatives o Alternative approaches o Pros and Cons of each

Agranoff, R. (2012). Collaborating to manage : a primer for the public sector. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Bingham, L., & O'Leary, R. (Eds.). (2008). Big ideas in collaborative public management. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe.
Dukes, E. F., & Firehock, K. E. (2001). Collaboration: A Guide for Environmental Advocates. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia.
Gray, B. (1989). Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Inc.
Huxham, C., & Vangen, S. (2005). Managing to collaborate : the theory and practice of collaborative advantage. London ; New York: Routledge.
Innes, J. E., & Booher, D. E. (2009). Planning with complexity : an introduction to collaborative rationality for public policy. New York, NY: Routledge.
Layzer, J. A. (2008). Natural experiments : ecosystem-based management and the environment. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Margerum, R. D. (2011). Beyond consensus: improving collaborative planning and management. Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Mattessich, P. W., Murray-Close, M., & Monsey, B. R. (2004). Collaboration: What Makes it Work (2nd Edition ed.). Saint Paul, Minnesota: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
O'Leary, R., & Bingham, L. (2009). The collaborative public manager : new ideas for the twenty-first century. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Sullivan, H., & Skelcher, C. (2002). Working across boundaries : collaboration in public services. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Winer, M., & Ray, K. (1994). Collaboration handbook : creating, sustaining, and enjoying the journey. Saint Paul, Minn: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
Wondolleck, J. M., & Yaffee, S. L. (2000). Making collaboration work: lessons from innovation in natural resource management. Washington D.C.: Island Press.