Makesfive’s Resource Centre
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Makesfive service 'products'

  • Building Skills for Successful Partnerships - designed as a two-day programme this course will introduce and practise essential skills and techniques to help make your partnerships more successful
  • Partnership proofing - smoothing the pathway to success - "partnership proofing" helps to ensure that all key stakeholders are engaged, have ownership, commitment and capacity to develop and deliver successful results collaboratively. Partner-self analysis uses important partnership indicators to help you to understand how well placed your partnership is to succeed.
  • Four Quadrant 60-minute intense therapy - taking stock of how your strategic or partnership is doing, when time is short. Four Quadrant can start off, or end up an organisation or partnership's meeting, helping to review progress and identify key development requirements without eating into core business or requiring a separate session of its own.
    Of course the follow up to what you find WILL - but is likely to be time well spent.


Downloads

"Today's Social Evils" - mindmap summary of key themes identified in Joseph Rowntree UK-wide debate

“Successful Partnerships - the art of the blindingly obvious?" -
Article

“Partnership Vision” -  Self Assessment Tool

"Types of Chairmen" - Financial Times article

"Thinking about Learning Organisations" - from "The Witch Doctors"

"Are You a 'Good Partner'?" - checklist to make you think

"Successful Partnerships - The 6 'I's" - Rosabeth Moss Kanter