Did you know partnerships with significant support from a partnership specialist are 2.5 x more likely to be successful than those with no support? Learn how!
Embracing Challenges in Partnerships: The Catalyst for Collaborative Success
Do you know the concept of "anti-fragile confidence"? 🤔 My latest blog highlights that anti-fragile confidence is a mindset that enables partners to see challenges as opportunities to catalyses growth and foster deeper relationships.
It's about converting challenges into synergies. Read more about the essentials of open-mindedness and anti-fragile partnering…
Unlocking the Power of Partnership: An Analysis of Collaborative Value Creation
Change doesn't happen in isolation. It is the product of the combined effort, knowledge, energy, and resources of various entities, where collaboration frequently proves more efficient, innovative, and sustainable than single-actor approaches. Porticus, an international funding organization that strives for a just and sustainable future, has been capitalizing on this power of collaborative advantage. Over the past five years, Porticus has significantly invested in fostering a strong partnership approach in its grant funding, facilitating collaboration between its grantees, and developing programs that maximize the potential of collective action. The reward? A transformational impact!
Navigating Power Dynamics in Partnerships: Strategies for Shared Success
"Who you decide to be is who you are destined to be," Ralph Waldo Emerson once reflected. This rings true for both individuals and partnerships alike. Partnerships play a pivotal role across various sectors in our interconnected world. However, the success or failure of these partnerships depends significantly on power dynamics.
Partnership Being: Habits of Highly Effective Partners
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore, is not an act but a HABIT.” -Aristotle
Don’t show up occasionally as your best partnership self - commit to it day in and day out through everything you do. Improvement will add up over time. They will turn from actions into superpower habits! Here are four partnership habits that will change the impact and effectiveness of your collaborations – forever!
Maximizing Value in Partnerships
At JS Daw & Associates we live and breathe innovative partnerships – from the frameworks behind them, to the value and values that drive them. We are committed to sharing the latest resources and insights that will energize your collaborative efforts. Our purpose is to help you adapt, thrive and prepare for the collaborative future essential for sustainable, just and inclusive communities.
Partnerships Move at the Speed of Trust: One Thing That Changes EVERYTHING
Partnerships and Polarity Management
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald.We all tend to see the difficulties we encounter at work and in life in general as problems we must solve. We come by this tendency honestly through formal education and through learned experience where we told to look for “the answer” to our problems.
Embracing Inherent Partnership Tensions
This past spring I participated in a conference on “Inherent Tensions in Networks”. The main theme was get comfortable with being uncomfortable when working in partnerships. When I work with partners I use a diversity of concepts and methods to support and enhance their work, including design and systems thinking and group dynamics. But “Polarity Thinking”, is one framework I use regularly. Like yin and yang, polarities are interdependent values that support each other.
Reflections On My Partnership Brokers Training
Guest Blog - Rebecca Aird, Director Grants and Community Knowledge, Ottawa Community FoundationIn February this year, I participated in a 4-day training course by the Partnership Brokers Association. Participants included reps from post-secondary institutions, government agencies, funders, and not-forprofit organizations.