Our cross-sector understanding, experience and networks mean that we are particularly adept at inspiring and nuturing the most potent business-NGO, business-public or multi-sector collaborations.
Collaborations or partnerships increasingly represent an effective route to addressing challenges and harnessing opportunities. But they can be complex and fraught with issues such as culture, style, mindset, differing resource levels, imbalances in the power dynamic, etc. They therefore require the specialised skills and approach we bring.
Our partnership services include:
- Helping our clients clarify the rationale for collaboration, create effective partnership strategies and ensure partnership readiness
- Identifying the most suitable corporate, NGO or public sector targets for partnership
- Creating innovative and compelling partner engagement concepts and plans
- Facilitating and managing the engagement process
- Applying the most potent processes to help organizations from different sectors and cultures create shared vision, goals and collaboration principles
- Helping the collaboration navigate its way towards the achievement of clear goals
- Applying our particular processes to help existing partnerships review and transform performance and impact
The collaboration may be focused on service or mission delivery for an NGO; unusual or counter-intuitive alliances to address common issues and create opportunity; corporate-NGO cause marketing partnerships; or motivated to achieve multiple objectives. Regardless of motive, our approach remains the same: we apply our know-how and deploy our cross-sector networks to help derive the greatest possible value — for the client, the collaboration and for society.