DELIVER & ADAPT
Sustaining Partnerships
Sustaining partnerships involves establishing shared long-term goals, translating them into action, adeptly communicating with diverse stakeholders, and measuring collaborative benefits across various levels to ensure enduring relationships and impactful results.
This section will give you tools to measure partnering benefits as they accrue at different levels, communicate to partners, stakeholders and audiences, and recognise the ‘four horsemen’ of the relational apocalypse which, if not addressed, can totally undermine you partnering efforts.
The resources provided are divided into several key areas:
- Partnering for real results: Use the EDP framework for a structured approach to achieving significant outcomes through shared goals and mutual accountability.
- Partnering lessons and pitfalls: Encompass tools like the EDP Ten Lessons, offering insights and strategies to help partners avoid common mistakes and enhance collaboration. TPI Troubleshooting provides guidance for identifying and resolving typical partnership issues, while John Gottman’s Four Horsemen shed light on behaviors like criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling, which pose significant threats to partnerships.
- Measuring partnering benefit: Accesses partnership value through the TPI Value Assessment Framework, which evaluates overall partnership impact, and the EDP Benefit Framework, particularly focusing on system benefits.
- Communication: Strategies for effective communication to ensure transparency, alignment, and engagement among partners, stakeholders and audiences.