Clarifying roles and responsibilities

This tool will help you help address a common partnership problem of lack of clarity over the roles that partners need to perform, and who is responsible for what. It does not go into specific requirements in different types of partnership, in health, regeneration, etc, but concentrates on what is common across different types of strategic partnership.

Use it to take stock, working through the functions and responsibilities set out:

• Is this something we need to do?
• Who is responsible? Is it a responsibility we share? Is the responsibility clearly allocated?
• Do we need to carry out the responsibility more? Better?
• What action is needed? By whom, and by when?

Applying Management Standards

Behind the tool lie a set of national standards for people working in management roles, based on a thorough analysis of what people and teams need to be able to do well if they are to succeed in achieving their objectives.

These standards define what effective performance looks like in such roles, setting out standards for each, criteria to asses whether or not the standards are met, and the underpinning skills and knowledge that an individual needs to bring to bear.

As such they provide a benchmark for looking more closely at what is required for effective performance, not just of individuals but also of teams and partner organisations. The standards can also help to define learning needs and how best to meet them.

More information on management standards can be found at : www.management-standards.org

The Partner Responsibilities in Strategic Partnerships tool can be downloaded below, it is available in Adobe PDF & Microsoft Word format:

• Partner Responsibilities Tool download (PDF 175 Kb).
  
  
• Partner Responsibilities Tool download (Word Doc 226 Kb).

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