Anne McMurray Consulting Ltd offers support to collaborative working arrangements in a wide range of settings: multi-disciplinary or multi -professional team settings; multi-agency partnerships such as economic and social regeneration; integrated health and social services provision for children, older people, mental health, disability as well as multi-agency team development to support initiatives such as extended schools.

Collaborative working is necessary across all sectors, public and private, to achieve strategic business goals or realising societal change and benefit. However, it can be difficult and challenging to create the conditions necessary such as shared aims, communication channels, distributed leadership, respect for difference and goodwill on an interpersonal level between people.

Anne McMurray Consulting Ltd can offer collaborative teams support in developing a strategy, planning a model of management to get things done, review of process and relationships and support to surface and address tensions.

Anne McMurray’s approach is informed by contemporary research and thinking. 

Methods

• Collaborative Toolkit developed to help collaborative efforts assess issues and plan improvement
• Social Network Analysis to review linkages and connections between people
• Developing organisation models to support the collaborative effort
• Design and facilitation of Knowledge Cafes to promote dialogue and conversation as a basis for information sharing
• Network development
• Partnership evaluation through interviews, surveys and group discussion
• Use of narrative enquiry techniques to map culture
• Value Network Analysis to review benefits of collaboration