How to build upon your relationships Map them

Analyse them

Decide what you want and do something about them

Dr Marie Johnson September 2012

National Leading Transformation ofNational Leading Transformation of Health and Wellbeing ProgrammeHealth and Wellbeing Programme

Map Them

MeNHS Commissioning Groups

Public Health England

SHA

LACouncillorsExec Team

Scrutiny committeeEH, Housing, Adult Services,

Children’s Services, Education

PoliticiansCouncillorsMPs MEPs

MediaLocal radioLocal press

NGOsService providers

lobbyists

Health Providers

Local Employers

Local Activists

Analyse Them

Level: organisation, department, individuals

Content of relationship: information, intelligence / insight, sounding board

Temperature of relationship:

formal, reciprocal, one way, antagonistic, frosty, friendly, supportive, confiding

Councillors

Exec Team

Scrutiny committee

EH

Housing

Adult Services

Children’s Services

Education

Me

Never met

Couple of wards good - rest unknown

New CE now in postAttended – didn’t speak

Strong joint working

Local Authority

Questions

What are my strong relationships? What’s the balance between local and

wider ones? Where are the gaps if any? What do I get and receive from my

relationships? Is the balance right? Are they working

for me now and helping me to achieve what needs to be done and get where I want to go?

Action Prioritise organisations and individuals to get to know

Review what you have to offer and what do you want

Consider how to go about this – what fits in with your personal style and ethics?

attend a meeting, join a committee, work on a project, ask to shadow, ask to be mentee, meet for coffee or lunch……

Talk it over with someone – mentor, co-coach, partner, boss

Do it!

Further ReadingThe Five Minds of a ManagerJonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg Harvard Business Review, 81

(November 2003): 54–63. 52.

http://exeter.academia.edu/JonathanGosling/Papers/1047979/The_five_minds_of_a_manager

http://changingwinds.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/the-five-minds-of-a-manager-insights-from-mintzberg-and-gosling/

Learning styleshttp://www.businessballs.com/kolblearningstyles.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles