Effective Collaboration: Issues and Strategies

There are strong incentives for collaboration and partnerships: organisational viability, coordinated service delivery, innovation, resource sharing and collective impact.

Build your capability to lead partnerships and collaborative efforts. Develop strategies and skills to establish, lead, manage and sustain collaborations, confidently address partnership challenges and create an organisational culture that supports working collaboratively.

Sustaining partnerships involves establishing partnership governance structures and processes, shared partnership management for results, and ongoing relationship building. All this requires an ability to address partnership challenges in a timely way and supporting staff and teams to work collaboratively.

You will receive and explore a set of tools/ resources that you can use to establish and strengthen collaborations, and for partnership management.

Learning Outcomes In this practical and interactive training program you will learn to: • Select the type and model of collaboration that is relevant for your organisation/program. • Establish a partnership on a solid foundation. • Lead and manage partnerships throughout their stages of development. • Manage partnership dynamics and challenges. • Foster a collaborative mindset and organisational culture. • Exercise collaborative leadership.