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This article is part of a series of seven on Collaborative Leadership and Governance. See the full series here.
This paper was co-authored by Liz Weaver and Sylvia Cheuy.
One of the most challenging aspects of working collaboratively – particularly when there are different perspectives about the issue being addressed – is to reach a shared understanding of that issue and how best to address it. There are two dimensions that partners must agree on regarding the issue they are hoping to solve before beginning to work together to discover promising solutions.
This paper explores these two dimensions- Confirming what type of problem you are trying to solve and defining the goal(s) of the hoped-for solution.
