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Successful collaborative planning meeting - how do you know?
 * noisy
 * messy
 * varied
 * 2-Way communication
 * agreement to disagree and that's ok
 * stimulating
 * invigorating
 * Common, collaborative agenda- goal
 * we reach the goals on the agenda
 * people come prepared
 * everyone participates
 * professionalism - participants
 * Recognizing that they need to come in with the right attitude
 * Bring lollies (food)
 * Reflection regularly takes place

Unsuccessful collaborative planning meeting - how do you know?
 * one person who dominates the meeting
 * passive agreement (underlying disagreement)
 * Apathy
 * nobody is listening, everyone is talking on top of each other
 * not common goal
 * no respect for each other
 * not coming prepared (no documents, wrong attitude)

Successful collaborative team - how do you know?
 * have an essential agreement
 * supportive of each other and the collaboration process
 * feel comfortable to disagree - understand that disagreement can learn to new things
 * agreed upon language of disagreement
 * Reflective
 * Depersonalizing conversations - making it about the work