TAILORED TRAINING
Designed to meet specific partnering needs and address challenges
The Partnering Initiative has developed a portfolio of tailored training programmes that can be adapted to suit a range of different organisational or partnership needs.
Types of tailored training include more general courses / workshops as listed below. We also list a selection of organisations for whom we have provided tailored training.
Awareness-raising: for senior managers to help them understand the value and potential of partnering and to explore how to develop a partnering approach within their own organisation
Partnering in Practice: presenting a Partnership Framework and an outline of the principles, procedures and key performance indicators of good partnering
Partnering Skills Training: currently our most popular course, this involves building individual skills – often using tailored case studies and role plays – in cross-sector facilitation, interest-based negotiation, communications, partnership management and how to conduct partnership reviews
Other types of tailored training programme take the form of more specialist courses / workshops, including:
Topic-based Training: focused work on a specific issue or challenge eg Partner selection; Resource-mapping; Creating a partnership agreement; Partnership reviews; Managing moving-on / exit strategies
Institutional Capacity Building: to enable organisations to partner more effectively and to become a ‘partner of choice’
Partnership-building workshops at critical moments: working with partners together at a time when the partnership has hit a problem or has simply lost its vision or direction. (Note: we have not included names here for reasons of confidentiality)
Our tailored training is often designed for one organisation (a company, an NGO, a UN agency or a government department) but we have also worked with whole partnerships – this can be particularly valuable since it means that all partners have been through the same learning experience and can apply their learning immediately to the challenges they face together in their partnering work.
Courses range from half a day to 5-days in duration. Sometimes organisations choose to run a 3-day skills-building course, followed by a period of mentored professional practice over 3 months and finishing with a 2-day follow up workshop to explore issues that have arisen and to hone partnering skills in the light of experience of what is needed on the ground.
Our training courses can prompt a major new development, for example, after training a group of Bangladeshi partnership practitioners in brokering skills, the group decided to create a new institution – The Bangladesh Partnership Forum – to actively promote business: NGO partnerships for sustainable development throughout the country.
The Partnering Initiative has developed a portfolio of tailored training programmes that can be adapted to suit a range of different organisational or partnership needs.
Types of tailored training include more general courses / workshops as listed below. We also list a selection of organisations for whom we have provided tailored training.
Awareness-raising: for senior managers to help them understand the value and potential of partnering and to explore how to develop a partnering approach within their own organisation
Aga Khan Development Network (Pakistan, Kenya, Tajikistan, Mali)
British Council (UK partnership managers)
US State Department (Partnership Network based in Washington)
Youth Business International (global event in Hong Kong)
British Council (UK partnership managers)
US State Department (Partnership Network based in Washington)
Youth Business International (global event in Hong Kong)
Partnering in Practice: presenting a Partnership Framework and an outline of the principles, procedures and key performance indicators of good partnering
Aga Khan Foundation (global staff team)
Business Community Foundation (India)
Microsoft (an on-line training course to support their global education partnership)
Nokia (global partners)
Plan International (global partners)
Business Community Foundation (India)
Microsoft (an on-line training course to support their global education partnership)
Nokia (global partners)
Plan International (global partners)
Partnering Skills Training: currently our most popular course, this involves building individual skills – often using tailored case studies and role plays – in cross-sector facilitation, interest-based negotiation, communications, partnership management and how to conduct partnership reviews
Department for Education and Skills (UK)
Katalyst / SwissContact (Bangladesh)
Nike (EMEA corporate responsibility team)
Russia Partnership (Russia)
UN agencies (in C&EE, FSU, Africa, SE Asia and Mediterranean countries)
World Bank (Project Managers working worldwide)
Katalyst / SwissContact (Bangladesh)
Nike (EMEA corporate responsibility team)
Russia Partnership (Russia)
UN agencies (in C&EE, FSU, Africa, SE Asia and Mediterranean countries)
World Bank (Project Managers working worldwide)
Other types of tailored training programme take the form of more specialist courses / workshops, including:
Topic-based Training: focused work on a specific issue or challenge eg Partner selection; Resource-mapping; Creating a partnership agreement; Partnership reviews; Managing moving-on / exit strategies
UNDP (Comparison of partnering agreements vs contracts)
Vodafone Foundation (UK partners)
World Vision (Tools for Partnering at Local Level)
Vodafone Foundation (UK partners)
World Vision (Tools for Partnering at Local Level)
Institutional Capacity Building: to enable organisations to partner more effectively and to become a ‘partner of choice’
GTZ (Germany, India, Africa)
World Vision (USA, UK and global)
World Vision (USA, UK and global)
Partnership-building workshops at critical moments: working with partners together at a time when the partnership has hit a problem or has simply lost its vision or direction. (Note: we have not included names here for reasons of confidentiality)
Our tailored training is often designed for one organisation (a company, an NGO, a UN agency or a government department) but we have also worked with whole partnerships – this can be particularly valuable since it means that all partners have been through the same learning experience and can apply their learning immediately to the challenges they face together in their partnering work.
Courses range from half a day to 5-days in duration. Sometimes organisations choose to run a 3-day skills-building course, followed by a period of mentored professional practice over 3 months and finishing with a 2-day follow up workshop to explore issues that have arisen and to hone partnering skills in the light of experience of what is needed on the ground.
Our training courses can prompt a major new development, for example, after training a group of Bangladeshi partnership practitioners in brokering skills, the group decided to create a new institution – The Bangladesh Partnership Forum – to actively promote business: NGO partnerships for sustainable development throughout the country.
