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
3.1	Partners continuously seek improvements in activities and ways of working
3.2	Partners periodically review the partnership: its vision, achievements and how it is working
3.3	Partners seek to learn from each other and from experience elsewhere
3.4	Partners recognise and use strengths and talents within the partnership
3.5	Partners manage the changes needed for improvements to be made

Do you need to tackle any of these common occurrences?

partnership activities based on partner views on what people or businesses need or should be doing ("solutions in search of problems")
failure to take stock of partnership progress/ ways of working
lack of recognition of need to develop the capabilities of those developing, directing or managing the partnership
parochial focus - "not invented here" mindset
aversion to risk-taking
acceptance of "lowest common denominator" solutions
weak links between strategic decision-makers and what is needed and happening on the ground
"groupthink" - consensus based on lack of objective knowledge

What actions might you take?

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