Short-courses

Equipping your organisation and teams with the knowledge, skills and mindset to work collaboratively and partner effectively.

The Building Effective Collaborative Partnerships 1-day course is designed for individuals, teams and organisations involved in multi-sector collaborations looking for ways to make them more effective and impactful.

The course provides participants:

  • A deeper understanding of what collaboration and partnership means

  • A framework and knowledge to build effective collaborations and partnerships

  • Insight into common collaboration and partnership principles, barriers, and enablers

  • An opportunity to explore the diverse drivers, concerns and resources different sectors bring to collaborations

  • Insights into the roles, skills and competencies needed to build successful collaborations

  • A pathway to further development opportunities, including formal accreditation

Benefits for your organisation:

  • Alignment and shared understanding between internal teams and stakeholders about collaboration and how to partner effectively

  • The foundations to develop a more strategic and impactful partnering approach, that adds-value

  • Peer-to-peer learning & support – especially valuable for distributed teams

Course structure

Through a mix of plenary and small group discussion and activities, your organisation and teams will also share and learn from one another’s experience and identify actions to take.

The building Effective Collaborative Partnerships course can be delivered in the way, and at a location that suits your organisation or team best:

One day in person or

Two ½ days in person

Four 90 min online sessions

Training team

Belinda Gorman

Belinda specialises in helping organisations achieve their goals through collaborative approaches.

She has worked as a collaboration and partnering practitioner for the last 15 years, with organisations across public, private and NGO sectors in New Zealand and internationally. Belinda has significant experience working on complex issues and in complex contexts. She knows first-hand the opportunities and challenges that working across organisation and sector boundaries presents, and the mindsets, skills and competencies required to navigate these effectively. Belinda is a PBA Accredited Partnership Broker, Authorised Practitioner Trainer and Mentor.

Rebecca Mason

Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Toa Rangatira me Ngāi Tahu.

From leading international partnerships to facilitating multi-stakeholder meetings and representing Iwi, Rebecca is known for leading change and bringing people together across cultures and industries to create enduring solutions. She is currently the Tumuaki (Principal) of Meihana Consulting which is centred around Iwi Māori public sector partnerships, systems change and organisational development.

Rebecca has experience as both an internal and independent partnership broker and she has supported and worked with organisations in the private and public sectors. Rebecca holds several governance roles, is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and an Accredited Partnership Broker.

For more information:

Feel free to contact me with any questions, or to discuss our short courses.

I am always happy to make time for a coffee and chat.