of the participants believed that the onus for encouraging the sharing of information, knowledge, and ideas was on the leadership team; on the other hand, 50% of the participants opined that the onus was on all team members. Shaw and Lindsay (2008) emphasized that all team members need to take responsibility for their own actions to share information, knowledge, and ideas. Sobeck and Agius (2007) added that taking personal responsibility is an important component to a collaborative effort and concluded that when team members do not work together, the teams will not function effectively.
Referring back to the literature review, Weber et al. (2007) defined collaborative capacity as how individual team members enhanced each other‘s performance by sharing resources and information, exchanging knowledge, and ideas for the mutual benefit of the team and the organization. Within the data gathered, participants identified a willingness to collaborate with comments like ―we need to get actively involved‖ (I1) and ―we need to share viewpoints within the multi-disciplines‖ (I5). The literature indicated that collaboration is a reciprocal process that must be embraced by all team members in order to achieve a shared and valued organizational goal (Shaw & Lindsay, 2008). At a time when the JFSC organization is faced with limited funding, increased client referrals, and the addition of new programs and services, team members need to make a conscious effort to focus on their strengths and on how they could enhance each other‘s performance through the sharing of information, knowledge, and ideas to achieve organizational goals. Kouzes and Posner (2007) asserted that ―when conditions are extremely challenging . . . [and when] turbulence in the marketplace demands even more [from team members] . . . collaboration is a critical competency for achieving and sustaining high performance‖ (p. 224). Sobeck and Agius (2007) concluded that for an organization to build capacity it needed to focus on the strengths, the expertise, and the potential of its teams.