Partners in practice
Partnership working, co-production and case studies.
A short, focused look at partnership with substance: the partnership continuum, collaborative leadership, co-production and the practical machinery that makes collaboration last.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Working with Communities and Partnerships
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders working across organisational boundaries in partnerships
Overview
Partnership is a word used so loosely it can mean almost anything. This programme gives it substance, from a working definition and the continuum from spectator to transform to the reality of partnerships as contested space. It explores collaborative leadership through Tuckman, Kanter, Carter and Hansen, examines co-production through Boyle and Harris's definition and ladder, and sets out the practical machinery partnerships need, drawing on the OECD and the Local Government Association. A capstone reads Merthyr Tennis Club, Compassionate Frome and Poplar HARCA to show the frameworks working together.
Aims
This programme aims to develop leaders who can carry an outcome without holding the controls, designing partnerships with honest purpose, working across organisational boundaries and with people as equals, and putting in place the practical machinery that makes collaboration last.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Assess whether a partnership is needed and where it sits on the continuum, naming its purpose honestly and testing it against the features of effectiveness.
- Plan a partnership's design, functions, communication, funding, legal footing and review arrangements, starting by agreeing purpose before structure.
- Lead across organisational boundaries and with service users, applying co-production, collaborative leadership behaviours and constructive approaches to conflict.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain the working definition of partnering and use four questions to test whether a new partnership is genuinely needed.
- Identify where a partnership sits on the continuum from spectator to transform and recognise the common mistakes the continuum exposes.
- Explain why every partnership is contested space and use four practical moves to bring negotiated goals, unequal power, working assumptions and competing accountabilities into the open.
- Explain Boyle and Harris's definition of co-production and what the words equal, reciprocal and relationship each require.
- Apply the four-item checklist of written purpose, named roles, agreed resource and timeline, and a fixed first review date before a partnership launches.
- Identify which frameworks, such as asset-based development, the partnership continuum, co-production and Arnstein's ladder, explain the outcomes in each of the three cases.
Built from 3 parts.
3 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Better togetherPartnership working and collaborative leadershipBitesize2 modules
- 02Making it work across boundariesCo-production and cross-organisational workingBitesize2 modules
- 03Partnership in the real worldCommunity and partnership case studiesBitesize1 module
Keep going.
Part of the Working with Communities and Partnerships topic, also sold whole as Common cause.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 3 hours 30 minutes, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Common cause, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Serving your community well, Stronger together