Play with the slinky®: Learning to lead collaboration through a statewide training project aimed at grants for community partnerships

Resource Sharing and Information Networks

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 25-48

  Curry, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Discourse; Interpersonal communication; Leadership; Organizational play; Storytelling; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645515290     PISSN: 07377797     EISSN: 15411125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J121v18n01_04     Document Type: Review

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