LGpartnerships - Smarter Partnerships

Assess your learning needs against those set out in this interactive tool.

You can choose to look at (a) your Personal or Team development needs, or (b) those of a Partnership - against the key themes for effective partnership.

1) Leadership: skills and knowledge for leadership in partnerships

2) Trust: skills and knowledge for cultivating trust in partnerships

3) Learning: skills and knowledge for promoting learning & improvement in partnerships

4) Managing For Performance: skills and knowledge for managing partnership performance

Each page allows you to identify your learning priorities.

Please work through each in turn: click here to begin

On completion of all four parts of the exercise, we shall give you a summary of the needs you identify and a range of suggestions for actions you might take.

You will also find examples of how others have tackled similar needs, tools you can use in your own situation, and links to other resources. (With your ideas and suggestions, we shall develop over time the content of this part of the website).

Often, pursuing opportunities for partners to learn together provides a foundation for partnership working that can be lacking, where the individuals concerned do not know each other well and have little mutual understanding or appreciation.

The Developing Skills for Partnership Working tool is available to download (PDF 75 Kb). for use when and where you wish. You can also download Suggestions (PDF 53 Kb) for meeting learning needs. This file also explains some of the terminology used in the tool.