Partnership Working
As public services have improved, the key challenges we now face are those that require a ‘joined up’ response. The places that have most successfully addressed these challenges are where partnerships are strongest. However, even in these areas, it is still a partnership approach that offers the greatest opportunity for improvement and cost efficiencies.
One of our key strengths is in developing and facilitating partnership approaches to tackling issues. This is driven by our practical experience at various levels, from neighbourhood, local and sub-regional, of how working across organisations and sectors can improve service delivery and outcomes for communities, and deliver efficiencies for organisations.
Our services cover the whole range of the partnership working cycle, including partnership conception, development, review and restructuring.
CASE STUDY
Tendring District Council partnership development
Training and Support
Successful organisations dedicate time to building organisational culture and the necessary skills and knowledge within its staff. The same is true of partnerships that are successful over the long term.
The MGA team has extensive knowledge of successful partnership working both as practitioners developing and managing partnerships, and as consultants. MGA offer bespoke training packages to strengthen partnership working to suit individual circumstances. Our track record is strong for training with a range of audiences from senior managers to frontline staff, elected Members to community activists. Of course, partnership training for combinations of these groups can produce the biggest step changes and we relish this kind of work.
CASE STUDY
Lewisham Assembly Support
Facilitation & Development
New partnerships, and those undergoing change, can often benefit from hands on support and expertise in its day-to-day work. MGA can offer the full range of support from interim management, staff development, development of governance and systems, meeting facilitation, and networking and communication.
CASE STUDY
Greater Dogsthorpe Neighbourhood Management
Delivery and Action Planning
Partnerships overseeing strategies, programmes and projects will regularly undertake delivery planning or action planning with a view to setting the agenda for the forthcoming period. MGA can offer support for these processes, using a range of methodologies that best suit the partnership in question. We are well practiced at quickly getting to grips with a set of local issues, services and performance data and bringing stakeholders together to develop jointly owned action plans that make a difference.
CASE STUDY
Great Yarmouth Neighbourhood Management Action Plan |
