Collaboration is in the byline where I work at Hub Melbourne – Driving innovation through collaboration. Want to find out about Mail Chimp? In a quandary about a contract? Out to connect with influential urban gardeners? These are some areas where I’ve had help with roadblocks in my work week.
East
Co-working is ‘east’, fresh, new and invigorating. There’s more to it than getting out of my home office. Hub Kitchen cooks up collaborations like this one crowdsourcing translation for socio-political good.
I’m working at Hub on a project that sounds dry by comparison, The Role & Future of Citizen Committees in Australian Local Government. Committees! Oh no …!
West
Oh yes. Australia relies on citizens collaborating with each other on committees. Often the work is slow and tedious, but gradually new developments come to fruition. This is the ‘west’, long lived and experienced
Advisory committees, incorporated committees of management, S86 committees. Month after month people turn up and work with each other and with place-making, recreation, education, community and natural resource management departments and agencies.
What do these committees do? They manage, give advice, generate ideas and implement plans within frameworks and strategies.
Right here
In any collaboration, joint effort is the ‘right here’.
- Building relationships that will last the distance
- Developing clarity in relation to shared vision and goals
- Bridging silos and disciplines
- Working out processes, roles and responsibilities.
These efforts are at the heart of any successful and enduring collaboration.