Foundations

There is a strategic and systematic approach to effective professional networking and partnerships that provide demonstrable benefits in promoting learning to employers. Providers need to engage in networks with other providers, businesses, agencies and the brokerage services to provide streamlined support and a ‘no wrong door’ approach to workforce development.

All of your consortium members need to feel that they are able to challenge each other in a constructive manner in order to meet the agreed objectives. This will help to build trust and confidence between all your partnership members.

The foundations of successful partnerships are built through knowledge and understanding of what makes an effective partnership and how you can implement processes to ensure effectiveness in this vital and necessary area of your work.

Understand the nature of successful partnership dynamics and operation
Develop the capacity of a partnership to engage quickly and effectively
Use partnership to develop more strategic marketing
Develop partnership agreements and planning
Develop new products and innovation between partners
Build constructive decision making and trust between partners
Make best use of the partners’ different skills
Understand and address cultural differences between partners
Understand quality assurance across partnerships
Develop successful relationships with, for example, Skills Brokers

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Working in partnership with brokers (0 KB)Downloadable file
Knowledge and understanding between skills brokers and providers is crucial to successful Train to Gain delivery. The manager in this video clip gives a brief overview of his experience of working wit...
Making provider partnerships work (0 KB)Downloadable file
A manager shares the factors she believes are important when assessing a potential provider partnership.

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