Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (2019)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. The 11 Partnership Impacts is a framework that explicitly highlights the collection of impacts that landscape-scale stewardship partnerships should consider when it comes […]
Kūlana Noi‘i (Research Standards)
This guide offers a structure for building and sustaining long-term relationships between communities and researchers. “Getting dirty, physically being there, listening to voices, sitting and working alongside – it’s not always built into people’s schedules in the academic world. But you need to force it and sit and listen to understand the issues.” Hundreds of […]
Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years (2018)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. One Tam’s vision that we can do more for Mt. Tam together, working across boundaries, than we can alone was affirmed in the findings of a four-year (2014-17) independent study—Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years—on the impact and value of partnerships. One […]
The Tamalpais Lands Collaborative Case Studies (2014-2017)
By Leigh Goldberg Public land agencies have collaborated for many decades, both informally and formally through inter-agency agreements, to share resources, equipment, staff, and information. Recently, we have seen an emergence of more deliberate partnerships with their own identities and priorities and a commitment to building durable relationships. Interest in partnerships is especially growing where […]
Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success
Despite high hopes, hard work, and significant investment, the social sector has experienced countless partnerships that have failed to live up to expectations. How are some collaborations able to achieve spectacular results while others fail spectacularly? This article identifies a set of four counterintuitive principles that are critical to collaboration success and offers insights for […]
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences […]
Ladder of Inference
Listen to this video as a podcast. Discussion Questions: Think of a time recently when you ran up the ladder of inference. What data did you select to focus on? What assumptions, conclusions, beliefs and actions did that lead you to? What are the benefits of “walking slowly back down the ladder”? What actions will […]
Strengthening Your Conflict Management Skills
Recognize how our behaviors, perceptions and assumptions can contribute to conflict. Learn to recognize emotionality, and what communication skills can help you through a difficult conversation. Explore alternative strategies for responding to conflict and negotiating an agreement. Discussion Questions: Think of a situation where you were in conflict in the workplace. What was your reaction […]
Collaborative Conservation: Spectrum of Public Engagement
Explore key concepts and best practices for making collaboration work. Collaboration is a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences, and search for solutions that go beyond what any one of them might have thought possible. This video was produced by the US Fish and […]
Social Network Analysis
Listen to this video as a podcast. Explore how social networks complement formal organizational networks. Discover the value of mapping professional networks to collaboration, innovation and problem solving. Learn the lingo of social network analysis and the role each plays in communications: Central Connectors, Brokers, Experts, Rising Stars and Knowledge Keepers. Discussion Questions: How […]
