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No Agenda No Attenda: How Leaders Foster Meaningful Partnership Meetings

How many meetings do you agree to (or host) in a week that don’t have an agenda?  If it’s even one, it’s too many.  If time is the new money, then meetings are currently your biggest hidden tax.  Agendas are the key to gaining compound interest.   We define a meeting as an event between […]
  • Posted by Enette Pauzé
  • On August 29, 2016
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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, […]
  • Posted by Enette Pauzé
  • On August 22, 2016
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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 […]
  • Posted by Enette Pauzé
  • On July 21, 2016
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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.  […]
  • Posted by Enette Pauzé
  • On July 21, 2016
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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.
  • Posted by Enette Pauzé
  • On May 24, 2016
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