Making Partnerships Work
A practical approach to understanding why partnerships do and don’t work & what you can do about it.
Why this training?
Love them or loathe them, partnerships are now a way of life for all public and voluntary sector organisations, across the widest possible range of activities – Community Planning, regeneration, health, countryside management.
It is also widely acknowledged that whilst partnerships can deliver many benefits, working across agencies and with communities presents many challenges. What is the best structure for the partnerships? How do you secure buy-in from others? Who makes decisions and how? How can you find ways to accommodate different agencies cultures? How do you decide who should have a seat at the partnership table?
This practical one-day course introduces participants to the key elements that need to be in place if successful partnership working is to be achieved and will help them address the challenges and dilemmas they face in any partnership they are currently involved with.
Course aims include:
- Assessing when partnerships are the most appropriate way of working.
- Considering the importance of getting the right stakeholders in partnerships.
- Considering different models of partnerships, and defining how they differ from other forms of collaborative working.
- Understanding the importance of agreed vision and objectives in partnership working.
- Exploring the use of partnership agreements
- Exploring ways of overcoming problems within partnerships, including an opportunity to analyse your partnership with supportive input.
- Knowing where to go for more information and support
Who is the course for?
- People who are already working within a partnership setting. (Several members of a partnership attending the day together will gain particular benefits as they will be able to work on their own material together and leave with some real answers and outputs).
- People who need to understand partnerships better as part of their own job, for example, because they help others enter into partnerships or because of their strategic role.
- People who are about to enter into partnership arrangements for the first time.
Download our 'Making Partnerships Work' information sheet. (PDF document, 225K)