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Making partnerships work

Tallis Training now offers a complete partnership working stock take. You can download the inventory the stock take is based upon for free. Click Here for details.

You may also copy and distribute any of the articles below as often as you like. The only conditions are that you do not change them in any way and that you always acknowledge the source: Charles M Lines at www.tallistraining.co.uk      

Click Here to read an article that offers a fresh approach to the leadership of partnerships. 

Click Here to see a systematic 10 step process for starting up, running and reviewing a partnership.

Click Here to read a short article that identifies the key issues partnership working can help us address.

Click Here to read an article about achieving the potential of partnerships.

Click Here to read an article about engaging effectively with hard to reach communities and stakeholders.

Click Here to read an article that offers some ideas for managing the hidden, internal dynamics of partnerships.

Click Here to read an article about evaluating partnerships effectively.

Click Here to read an article about managing partnership paradoxes.        

Click Here to see some of the partnership working training offered by the National School of Government. Click Here to download their brochure.

Go to www.lgpartnerships.com  for some practical partnership working tools.

Scroll down to see a sample course outline.

 

This programme is for anybody who needs to work effectively within a partnership context. (The one day version of this course covers the same areas as shown below but with less participative exercises and discussion time).

 

The programme will enable you to:

 

·          Identify why and where you need to work in partnership

·          Manage and work effectively with your partners and other stakeholders

·          Make the most of your interpersonal skills within a partnership context

·          Recognise and deal well with conflict

·          Learn from the partnership experiences of others

·          Effectively implement, maintain and improve partnership working

·          Tap into the latent creativity of partnerships

 

The emphasis of this programme is on offering practical ideas, tools and techniques that will help you maximise the results gained from partnership working.

 

Also offered is a systematic process for starting up and developing a partnership.

 

Day 1

09.15 Aims, approach and introductions

 

Why use partnership working?

Why do you need to work in partnership? Selecting the right type of partnership for your needs and identifying crucial shared interests between partners.

 

Break

 

Managing your stakeholders effectively

What is the difference between stakeholders and partners? Mapping out your stakeholders and identifying the most effective ways to manage them. Encouraging helpful involvement from stakeholders.       

 

Lunch

 

Making the most of your interpersonal skills and dealing effectively with conflict

Maximising the trust within a partnership; recognising the causes of conflict and dealing with them effectively; appreciating and working with partners’ perspectives; using the dialogue technique within partnerships.

 

Break

 

Making the most of your interpersonal skills and dealing effectively with conflict (continued)

 

17.30 End of day

 

Day 2

09.00 Review of the first day

 

What have others’ learnt about partnership working?

A chance to work with and discuss some partnership working case studies and identify the main lessons to be learnt from them.

 

Break

 

Unleashing creativity and getting the partnership moving

Using convergent, divergent and creative thinking to kick start a partnership.

 

Lunch

 

Auditing partnership effectiveness and helping a partnership to learn and develop

Monitoring the key processes and characteristics of the partnership. Identifying how to encourage the appropriate growth, development and evolution of the partnership.

 

Break

 

Contracting for partnership success

How will you encourage your own partnership working?  Identifying your next steps.

 

End of course review

 

17.00 End of course

 

 

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Last modified: July 26, 2010
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