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Three Strategies for Prospecting New Partners

Prospecting for new partners can feel like shooting fish in a barrel, or like squeezing water from a rock.  It all depends on the effectiveness of your prospecting strategies. We tend to partner with people and organizations we know, like and trust.  So what are the characteristics of a prospective partner that help you know, […]

Partnership Myth 16: Funding reports are a waste of time

Receiving funding isn’t a right, it’s a privilege! Doing the paperwork is part of the fair exchange for receiving funding from external organizations. It’s how you earn the right to play the funding game. Reports help the partnership because: • your partners are held accountable for results, actions, deliverables and timelines • they clarify roles […]

Partnership Myth 7: Partnerships make the process more complex

One of the biggest objections to creating or joining partnerships is that they make things more complex, involving more ‘red tape’, rules and policies. Successful partnerships require clarification of roles, responsibilities, rules, policies and objectives.  They actually force leaders to be more accountable and transparent in areas where they might usually fly beneath the radar.  […]

How to Develop a Simplified Governance Structure

Because partnership leaders perceive its importance, governance structures often become more complex than they need to be! Learn two key strategies for developing a more simplified governance structure within your partnerships.