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WORKING WITH BOARDS AND <br /> BOARD - MANAGED AGENCIES <br /> Karen Ray Associates has been helping agencies and their Boards grow and <br /> strengthen since 1983. While working with Board members or agency staff, the <br /> focus is on leadership, collaboration, conflict management, problem-solving <br /> approaches and customer relations. <br /> Examples of the results of this work in recent months include: <br /> Work relationships between staff and Board members were strengthened: <br /> During 1993 Karen Ray Associates conducted more than a dozen one day <br /> or multi-day workshops specifically on Board - staff issues including <br /> teambuilding, negotiation, goal setting and problem solving. <br /> Long range plans developed for 8 profit or non-profit organizations: <br /> Karen Ray Associates facilitated planning and problem solving sdssiohs for <br /> • these Boards which resulted in long range planning documdnts <br /> Collaboration enhanced among several organizations in downtown <br /> Pittsburgh: <br /> These Board-managed agencies had been competing for funding, and now <br /> file joint funding applications. <br /> Enhanced cooperation between, pr6#lders df llt+er6eV 94rvl666 lH <br /> school districts, industries and ndn=profit organii btl669 <br /> This multi-year project called fdr collaborative actibn aftiohd 67 b8ards and <br /> their organizations. <br /> Created a network of 28 counties to ittiprove d6li00 64 WVices to <br /> troubled families: <br /> Karen Ray Associates facilitated reti'e64s, rMbtlnys; afid w&ksllbbi td help <br /> County Commissions in ruFal M(Hhdsdta di W with *illy 199LAs �Ubi1 as <br /> abuse and chemical depdhdencg. <br /> • <br />