LGpartnerships - Smarter Partnerships

Assess your partnership against the benchmarks below.

You may come to a positive or negative conclusion about your position against each benchmark, and you may already be acting to strengthen the partnership.

Think about the evidence you have to back up the view you take.

If you are completing the exercise on your own, think about your partners' views on the partnership.

	BENCHMARK	NO - action is needed	NO - but action is in hand	YES - but needs improving	YES - working well
1.1	Partners share a common vision of the difference they want to make and the direction to take
1.2	Partners focus on partnership added value: how they can achieve more or better results through collaboration
1.3	Partners are willing to make changes to achieve shared goals
1.4	Partners facilitate partnership working and engender support within their own organisations or interest grouping
1.5	Partner objectives are aligned in a common direction

Do you need to tackle any of these common occurrences?

limited vision
failure to inspire and push the bounds of the possible
resources not devoted to where they will make the greatest difference
tendency for partners to react to, not anticipate events
pursuit of quick fixes
partners competing for the lead or unwilling to take the lead
some partners are unwilling participants
individual partners dominate decision-making

What actions might you take?

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