Making it work across boundaries

Co-production and cross-organisational working.

Level: Bitesize
Learning time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Where: Working with Communities and Partnerships
Price: £39

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Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

Co-production is a demanding idea, not a warmer word for engagement. This module contrasts doing to, for and with people, reads Boyle and Harris's definition of an equal, reciprocal relationship closely and uses their four-rung co-production ladder. It then turns to working across organisational boundaries: three cultures around one table, stakeholder tensions, four ways partnerships quietly exclude, and handling conflict through the Thomas-Kilmann modes. Partnerships rarely fail for want of vision; they fail for want of machinery. Drawing on the OECD guide to successful partnerships and the Local Government Association's principles, this module covers a pre-launch checklist, four separate partnership functions, communication inside and outside, funding models and legal footing matched to risk, and monitoring and evaluation designed in advance. You leave with practical tools to apply to a partnership of your own.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

Explain Boyle and Harris's definition of co-production and what the words equal, reciprocal and relationship each require.
Identify which rung of the co-production ladder your own work genuinely reaches, using four questions about the brief, delivery, duration and service users' own view.
Plan how to work across organisational boundaries, avoiding the four ways partnerships quietly exclude and choosing collaborating over avoiding or accommodating when disagreements arise.
Apply the four-item checklist of written purpose, named roles, agreed resource and timeline, and a fixed first review date before a partnership launches.
Distinguish the chair, coordination, delivery lead and accountable body functions and plan a communication approach that reaches every partner.

What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 15 minutes of learning.

07Co-Production and Working Across OrganisationsCo-production is a demanding idea, not a warmer word for engagement. This module contrasts doing to, for and with people, reads Boyle and Harris's definition of an equal, reciprocal relationship closely and uses their four-rung co-production ladder. It then turns to working across organisational boundaries: three cultures around one table, stakeholder tensions, four ways partnerships quietly exclude, and handling conflict through the Thomas-Kilmann modes.39 min
08Making Partnerships Work: Practical GuidancePartnerships rarely fail for want of vision; they fail for want of machinery. Drawing on the OECD guide to successful partnerships and the Local Government Association's principles, this module covers a pre-launch checklist, four separate partnership functions, communication inside and outside, funding models and legal footing matched to risk, and monitoring and evaluation designed in advance. You leave with practical tools to apply to a partnership of your own.39 min

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