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Mind Your Ps & Qs

Mind Your Ps & Qs. Partnership Perils and Questions . Take Me To Your Leader. Partnership working does not always make for clear leadership and direction. Take Me To Your Leader.

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Mind Your Ps & Qs

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  1. Mind Your Ps & Qs Partnership Perils and Questions

  2. Take Me To Your Leader Partnership working does not always make for clear leadership and direction.

  3. Take Me To Your Leader • What needs to be done to make sure that the partnership does not dissolve into a well meaning but woolly consensus? • Flexible leadership arrangements. • Regular critique of progress towards long-term goals.

  4. More Equal Than Others Partnership working can foster a mistaken belief that all the partners are always equal.

  5. More Equal Than Others • Are the partners clear about their respective roles, resources and spheres of influence and are they comfortable with these? • Fewer permanent committees etc in the structure. • Focus on chairing skills.

  6. What A Tangled Web We Weave There is a danger that partnership working can obscure lines of accountability.

  7. What A Tangled Web We Weave • Is there sufficient clarity about areas of shared responsibility? • Clear, concise descriptions. • Identify single lead agencies. • Focus on managing performance.

  8. In The Beginning Was The Word Partnerships tend to be fascinated by formal structures, protocols etc. and to focus on the top levels of partner organisations.

  9. In The Beginning Was The Word • What is being done to build the ‘softer’ relationships where the work is actually done? • Multi agency project groups. • Secondments and joint training. • Geographical teams.

  10. Audience Participation Strategic partnerships are usually a ‘turn off’ for the public at large, despite purporting to represent them.

  11. Audience Participation • How can the partnership best be organised to make it easier for people in the community to understand its relevance? • Packaging & presentation of issues. • Don’t duck controversy.

  12. The Emperor's New Clothes Partnerships have a tendency to invent themselves, even when they offer nothing new.

  13. The Emperor's New Clothes • How best can partners be confident that the value added by partnership working justifies the effort required to establish and sustain it? • Regular independent review. • Cross boundary clusters. • Consolidation of what works.

  14. Mind Your Ps & Qs Partnership Perils and Questions

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