Target Audience:

• LSP practitioners / managers

• LSP support officers

• Other members of staff / managers with a specific interest in partnership working.

• Other officers proposed by LSP practitioners.

Outcomes:

At the end of the programme participants will

• Have a better understanding of how to use ‘partnership drivers’ to engage and motivate partners

• Have enhanced their influencing and networking skills.

• Have gained an insight into the scope and range of the role of a Partnership Support Officer, and the techniques used by successful officers to drive partnerships forward

• Have clarity on how the LSP, and other local partnerships, ought to link to the SCS and LAA.

• Have developed tangible ideas to help individual LSPs work, and help them collaborate with neighbouring LSPs on issues of common interest.

• Have gained a personal insight for participants into their personality preferences and how to enhance their impact and effectiveness.

• Considered how best to make use of PtP bespoke funding in the sub-region.

Sharing learning:

This programme is based on a pilot initially run in Hampshire and now being rolled out in Berkshire.  PtP hopes the programme will help share learning and develop expertise across the south east.  Other sub-regions have expressed interest in the programme.

Commitment:

Although the course is free, there will be a cancellation charge should a delegate drop out without finding a replacement or for non attendance.  This will be levied at £600.  We have found the charge secures the commitment of participants to an otherwise free event. Any monies collected in this way will be returned to the PtP budget to run the course elsewhere.

Costs:

The course will be funded with PtP funds pooled by a sub-region.  The only cost to participants will be transport costs.  

Confirming a place:

Places will be issued on a combination of first come first served and representation from across the county. This is likely to mean one or two representatives from each local authority. To register your interest simply follow this link. Please do not restrict the number of names you put forward as we will repeat the course if there is sufficient demand later in the year.

Further information:

An outline programme is available on request to complement this flyer, contact Emily Parrett for a copy.  emily@seemp.co.uk

For more information about the course contact Jackie Shefferd Jackie@seemp.co.uk

For more information about PtP visit the website www.progressthroughpartnership.org.uk

Outline Programme:

This programme will blend theory and practice and also balance the focus between the organisation/partnership and personal insight and development. There will be a mix of tutor input, group discussions, guest speaker input and 1:1 confidential feedback discussions.  

Workshop 1

• Introductions and scene-setting

• Facilitated discussion about ‘partnership working’

• Input from a guest speaker – a Practitioner Associate (topic to be agreed)

• Stakeholder Analysis and Management – to include engagement and empowerment

• Formation of Action Learning Sets

• Introduction to the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Between Workshop 1 and 2 participants will complete the OPQ on-line and the MBTI questionnaire.

Workshop 2

• Introductions and review of progress

• Introduction to networking

• Impression Management – blending the theory with practice

• Political Awareness – maximising your impact and choosing your responses within the complex ‘make-up’ of an organisation.

• Influencing styles

• Action Learning Sets

1:1 feedback sessions will be held between workshops 2 and 3.  Participants will have two sessions of approximately 2-hours. This will enable personal insight into preferences of behaviour and style at work. Confidential discussions help participants to identify what they want to do differently in relation to working with other people. These feedback sessions have been identified as key elements contributing to the success of similar programmes.  

Workshop 3

• Introductions and brief review against learning objectives

• Principles of effective communication – to apply to the partnership setting

• Partnership journeys and life cycles

• Guest speaker – a Practitioner Associate (topic to be agreed)

• Setting Well Formed Outcomes – a model for clarifying goals and steering change

• Vision for the future – input from Peter Johnson, PtP Programme Manager

• Action Learning Sets

• Review, evaluation and certificates.

Berkshire:

Tuesday 21st October, venue to be confirmed

Tuesday 18th November, venue to be confirmed

Thursday 11th December, venue to be confirmed

Hampshire:

Tuesday 24 June, 9.30am – 4.30pm, Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council

Tuesday 8 July, 9.30am – 4.30pm, SEE training room (Winchester)

Thursday 18 September, 9.30am – 4.30pm, SEE training room (Winchester)

In addition there will be two 2-hour 1:1 feedback sessions at a participant’s place of work, dates/times to be arranged by mutual consent.

Lead Facilitators: Robin Taylor & Jackie Shefferd, Improvement & Development Consultants at South East Employers.

Jackie Shefferd, Robin Taylor and Sarah Morgan will deliver the course with support from PtP Practitioner Associates.  They are all experienced facilitators with a track record of delivering similar bespoke skills development programmes for specialist groups or specific audiences.  CV’s are available on request.