What does it mean to partner?

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What does it mean to partner?
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Outcomes for today

• A wider understanding of the concept of
  partnership and what makes them valuable to your
  organisation
• A glossary of terms, agreed definitions
• Awareness of some practical tools that can be
  used to build cohesion and trust within
  partnership

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• Partnerships involves bringing together points of
  difference

Common interest
Points of pain
Points of comfort
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• Where are our pain points? Our barriers?

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What does it mean to you to partner?
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Partnership is a relationship to achieve
strategic coordination
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Spectrum of coordination
networking
Collaboration
Cooperation
Strategic coordination
Autonomy
Integration
Hierarchy
Transaction
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Creating common language
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Changing landscape
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• we all have a role to play within the
  community
• Minister Humphries
• How are shifting roles, responsibilities,
  expectations changing the way we coordinate with
  each other?

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• What drives us to partner? Motivations?

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Benefits of coordination (incentive)

1. Efficiency
2. Effectiveness
3. Legitimacy
4. Influence

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• Whats in it for me?
• What is my value proposition?

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Strategies for coordination

1. Networking
2. Cooperation
3. collaboration

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• How do we define these strategies?

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• What keeps a partnership together?

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Partnership Tools

• MOUs
• Terms of Reference
• Letter of Intent
• Forward Plan
• Partnership Assessment
• Project Management Plan
• Partnership attitudes
• Contracts

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• What are the benefits of these tools?
• What are the limitations?

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Scenario 1

• You are a member of a committee which is
  responsible for ensuring that project teams from
  each organisation share lessons learned with each
  other to improve services. However, members fail
  to turn up to meetings regularly, are guarded
  about what they share. It seems to you that there
  lacks clear understanding of the groups purpose.
  
• Why might the partnership be behaving in this
  way?
• What tool/s could you use to overcome these
  issues?
• What outcome/s are you seeking?
• Give reasons for your choice of tools

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Scenario 2

• You represent a community managed organisation
  that works with consumers who experience severe
  mental illness requiring support from public and
  private mental health services. You have been
  trying to negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding
  (MOU) with a number of organisations who provide
  other mental health services to the same
  consumers, to ensure that the care needs of the
  consumer are coordinated appropriately. You have
  been trying to establish agreement for 12 months
  but you have not been successful.
• Why do you think this has not been successful?
• What are the risks of not having an MOU?
• In the absence of an MOU,
• What outcome/s are you seeking?
• What tools could be used to coordinate with these
  services
• What processes put in place to meet the needs of
  consumers accessing your service
• Give reasons for your choice of tools

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Scenario 3

• You are responsible for bringing together a
  number of organisations to develop innovative
  products/service in response to recently
  discovered unmet needs within the community.
  Funding is available to set up this initiative,
  so long as organisations can demonstrate
  collaboration. However, as you work together, you
  realise that expectations are very different
  across the group. Some partners are more
  interested in what proportion of funding they
  will receive. Others have proposed that funding
  could be used to expand their existing programs.
  Every time you use the work collaboration
  partners roll their eyes.
• What do you do?