smarter working – developing your partnerships skills

Sally Williams

Action for Market Towns

Smarter Working Developing your Partnership’s

Skills

Six Stages of Success

• Identify local need

• Involve/consult the community

• Plan for short to long term action - vision

• Work in partnership (strategically)

• Secure funding and finance

• Deliver

A person who rules, guides, influences or inspires others

A Leader?

Do you play a leadership role?

Difference between legitimate and community leaders?

Legitimacy

Wider Community

Organisation/Partnership

How do you lead without legitimacy?

• I see myself as a guide through a complex 'landscape 'and a team/partnership builder

• Our leader works with, and therefore has the support of, the community, local businesses, town, district and county councils - he has no need for legitimate power himself

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• I lead from the front. I take it all, good, bad or indifferent - but it is so important to work with and find trust in others. I seek different organisations to work in partnership with to achieve the same end.

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• We have a public face – a spokesperson, or fall guy - however we all have a role to play and we are all equal

• An effective partnership that is working properly gains ‘legitimacy’

So...

• Do you possess the personal traits needed to to lead without legitimacy?

• Do you behave and communicate like a leader?

• Do you need help to develop these skills?

Product One: Successful Community Leadership

Product Two

Table Two

Action Planning Funding

Asset Transfer Governance

Being Assertive Health and Safety

Bid Writing Intranet Skills

Book Keeping Introduction to Social Enterprise

Business Finance IT Skills

Business Planning Leadership Skills

Campaigning Legal Structures

Cashflow Marketing

Chairing Meeting/Boards Skills Media skills

Change Management Meeting Management

Charity Law Negotiation Skills

Child care protection Presentation Skills

Coaching Procurement

Communications Profit and Loss

Community Consultation Project Evaluation

Competitive Tendering Project Management

Complaint Handling Project Monitoring

Co-operatives - setting one up Recruitment Skills

Credit Unions Research Skills

Customer Care Risk Assessment Planning

Directors Role and responsibilities Selling Skills

Disciplinaries and appraisals Social Franchising

Employment Law Stakeholder Management

Equality and Diversity Time Management

Ethical Trading Triple Bottom Line Accounting

Event Management Venture Capital

First Aid Volunteer Management

Fund Raising Writing Press Releases

Table Three

Fund Raising

Volunteer Management

Project Evaluation

Bid Writing

Risk Assessment Planning

Health and Safety

Sustainable Funding

Community Consultation

Stakeholder Management

Event Management

Change Management

Project Management

Media Skills

Legal Structures

Leadership Skills

Competitive Tendering

Chairing Meeting/Boards Skills

Campaigning

Business Finance

You’ve Been Fired Up!

• One Objective• Six Tasks• Teams• Team Shadows• Two Days