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12 Collaborative Airport Capital Planning Handbook
Measuring Collaboration
So how does an agency know that it has been successful in collaborating? Using a measure-
ment system to determine the level of collaboration between internal stakeholders provides a
quantitative metric to demonstrate success.
Once an environment of collaboration is created, the greatest challenge is then to develop a
system to institutionalize collaboration within the agency that holds its staff and leaders account-
able. To do that, it is critical that "collaboration" be measured and documented.
Measures of collaboration can be applied to both personnel and an entire organization. In his
article entitled "Measuring Collaboration Among Grant Partners," Bruce Frey, from the Univer-
sity of Kansas, conducted significant research on collaboration and developed a collaboration
measuring technique for secondary education grant programs among partners. This article
described the importance of measuring collaboration for soliciting funding entities and for sus-
taining innovative programs in the future. This collaboration measurement scale has been
adapted for measuring collaboration between internal stakeholders in the ACP process (see sam-
ple forms on pages D2 through D4 of Appendix D).
These forms can be used annually, or at key milestones or deliverables depending upon the
complexity of the ACP. It is intended to be used by each Leader and Partner identified in each
step of the CACP process (see Chapters 4 though 6). As important as it is to use this evaluation
form to rate collaboration within an organization, it is even more essential that this rating be
incorporated into individual staff goals and performance evaluations and subsequently used as
the basis for rewards and/or penalties.
Institutionalizing Collaboration
The process to establish a culture of collaboration and to institutionalize it begins with lead-
ership. Leaders must clearly communicate that collaboration is expected. Leaders must demon-
strate the importance and value of collaboration by illustrating its benefits and recognizing those
who participate. Leaders establish a platform for collaboration by
· Convening regularly scheduled meetings and encouraging the sharing of ideas;
· Defining and requiring regular, transparent reporting;
· Holding managers accountable for communicating open and honest information;
· Setting standards for achieving targets and performance objectives; and
· Measuring and celebrating successful collaboration.
Leaders ultimately hold managers accountable to collaborate, and, as described in this Hand-
book, to deliver a collaborative ACP process that is transparent and honest. Leaders change on
a regular basis, and, in the absence of a collaborative director or Executive Leader, the internal
department managers become the leaders who must work together and hold their staff and
supervisors accountable to develop, manage and deliver an ACP in a collaborative manner.
Regardless of where the expectation of collaboration originates, what is most important is that
the value of the CACP process is clearly understood and the methods and processes to develop
and implement it begin to happen in earnest.
Collaboration can also be forced onto an agency by external stakeholders demanding more
accountability and transparency. Those external stakeholders can be agencies such as the FAA
or TSA, tenants, or the general public, which includes neighbors and advocacy/community
groups. Once the imperative to be more accountable and transparent is effectively communi-
cated, then the process to collaborate becomes institutionalized. Then it is more likely that there
will be investment in the resources to facilitate the process. The more managers become collab-
