Partnership Working & Development
We are specialists in the field of partnership working and understand the typical problems our clients face, such as lack of buy in from partners, ineffective meetings, poor strategic focus and talk instead of delivery.
We offer a range of services to overcome these problems and ensure that your partnership achieves genuine added value outcomes in an efficient way.
Learning on Partnership Working: from generic training on the principles and practices of effective partnership working, through to tailored learning for a particular partnership or support officers. Read more about our training courses.
Partnership Development & Reviews: strengthen your partnership so it can deliver its goals. This can include reviewing membership, or developing partnership agreements. One accessible way into improving a partnership's performance is to have a Partnership Health check. (PDF document)
Leading & facilitating partnerships: helping organisations that are charged with leading partnerships to carry out this challenging role effectively .
Examples of our work
Cornwall local authorities |
A substantial local government improvement project, aimed at reviewing Cornwall’s partnership ‘landscape’, and how it needed to change in the move to unitary Cornish authority. |
Local Strategic Partnerships |
We have undertaken partnership development activities for many Local Strategic Partnerships, including, Reading, Rushmoor, Gloucester, Fareham, West Wiltshire, Bridgend, Torfaen, Gosport, Watford, and Cornwall & West Berkshire. |
Bridgend Strategic Partnerships |
We helped a group of people from all the strategic partnerships in the area to plan how to deliver better partnership working, with an emphasis on joining up all the partnerships’ work. |
Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Biodiversity Partnership |
Supporting the planning and delivery of a workshop for the partnership to agree priorities for and explore management issues arising from employment of a shared post-holder. |