Lessons Learned

Experience in and knowledge of collaborations and the other sector have a positive impact on a collaboration: Leadership skills in collaboration are important.

Health professionals’ and other individuals’ personal characteristics that support collaboration include:

• Confidence,
• Knowing how to reach out,
• Expertise,
• Knowledge Sharing,
• Tenacity,
• Dependable.

Challenges include people in the collaboration who:

• Have strong personalities that only see their side of the issue;
• Maintain ‘silo thinking’.