PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
TWO-DAY WORKSHOP

TRAINING TESTIMONIALS

This workshop is presented through Professional Training Services, University of Ottawa. See https://win03.magma.ca/sfppts/secure/english/coursedetails.cfm?cid=1027&pid=22. Dates: November 22-23, 2010; March 16-17, 2011; May 26-27 in French.
Other workshops can be scheduled to suit clients.

Productive Partnering:

A Two-Day Workshop on Maximizing the Benefits and Minimizing the Risks of Partnership

How can governments get results for citizens when resources are severely limited? How can companies and not-for-profit organizations succeed in a crowded and competitive marketplace? One answer is partnering – a proven, legitimate option for extending the reach of programs, sharing costs, improving service and program features, engaging others, and sharing risk. Successful partnerships (and other forms of partnering) can achieve more and better results, easier access to target populations, lower cost, and innovation. However, resources, results and reputation can be jeopardized if risk associated with partnering is poorly managed.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

By learning to effectively develop and lead successful partnerships, executives, managers and senior officers will:

• understand the rationale and key features of partnership between their organization and partners in the same or other sectors;
• develop a logical approach to the partnership cycle: the decision to partner; identifying good partners; the partnership agreement; governance structure and operational management of partnerships; results reporting and evaluation;
• learn to identify the typical partnering risks and mitigation options; and
• understand how public service values and ethics apply to partnering.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This workshop is for leaders, managers and other personnel throughout the organization. Senior leaders commit their organization to working with partners. Policy and program managers find and promote collaboration opportunities. Corporate services (contracting, legal, procurement, communications, evaluation) play specialized support roles.

Whatever your position in your organization’s partnering, the workshop will develop your capacity for planning partnership strategically and for managing the internal and external environments to make the partnership a success. Special note for federal government registrants: The workshop relates to two of the Key Leadership Competencies of the Government of Canada, (1) Strategic thinking: Analysis and Ideas, and (2) Engagement: People, Organizations, Partners. It is particularly relevant to the following expectations of the Government’s Management Accountability Framework:

• Governance and Strategic Directions – Horizontal collaboration
• Policy and Programs – Citizen engagement
• Stewardship – Functional specialists as partners
• Citizen-focused service – Effective relationships; collaboration with other governments and partners; partnerships are encouraged and effectively managed
• Learning, Innovation and Change Management – A culture of innovation

You will join a group of senior and committed learners who want to explore the new avenues available through partnering models. You will engage in extensive Q&A sessions; small group discussions; in class work on practical and real examples drawn from participants’ experience; case studies on particular and complex topics. You can apply the principles and tools during the workshop to a partnering challenge in your own organization.

WORKSHOP LEADERS

Your workshop leaders are Robert Czerny and David Mulcaster.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

1. What is partnership? What can it achieve?
2. Deciding: should we partner?
3. Choosing: who would be a good partner?
4. The partnership agreement: what must it contain?
5. Governance: who’s in charge? who does what?
6. Operational collaboration: how can we make sure that the partnership works out?
7. Completion and continuation: what did the partnership achieve?
   Does it have a future?
8. Special issues

SEMINAR

Note: this workshop can be presented as a half-day seminar for those who require a comprehensive understanding of partnering but cannot attend for two days.