What can you bring to a partnership?

Assess your learning needs against those set out in this interactive tool. You can choose to look at (a) your Personal or Team development needs, or (b) those of a Partnership - against the key themes for effective partnership.

1) Leadership: skills and knowledge for leadership in partnerships

• Brings visibility
• Promotes shared ownership
• Draws in reluctant partners
• Drives forward a (sometimes contentious) agenda
• Style should be about sharing power: not about control and group power

2) Trust: skills and knowledge for cultivating trust in partnerships

• Involves both organisational commitment and individual commitment.
• A committed organisation will:
• Select representatives on the basis of their interpersonal skills
• Ensure continuity of partner’s representative
• Be sensitive to issues of parity
• Ensure the representative has delegated authority

3) Learning: skills and knowledge for promoting learning & improvement in partnerships

4) Managing For Performance: skills and knowledge for managing partnership performance

• Conflict is virtually inevitable in partnerships: they bring together a wide range of interests, levels of power and resources, and different priorities.
• Vision building is the key to defining shared objectives: it’s not enough to list what each partner is doing separately

Each page allows you to identify your learning priorities. Please work through each in turn: Click here to begin.

On completion of all four parts of the exercise, you will be given a summary of the needs you identify and a range of suggestions for actions you might take.

Further to looking at what you can bring to a partnership there may be some questions you want to think about in terms of how the partnership is helping you. To explore this further: please Click Here