This presentation looks at building a common vision for partnerships. It could be used as the basis for a workshop session to help develop and refine the vision for your partnership. The presentation includes prompts on setting strategic priorities.
This resource enables organisations to identify and assess the benefits of collaboration. It is adapted from material on the Employers Organisation site for local government, Smarter Partnerships. The resource provides a checklist of the benefits of collaboration from which users can identify those that most apply to their prospective partnership and which might be emphasised in negotiations.
This resource provides a checklist of features of partnerships that are conducive to effective collaboration and joint working, which can prompt thinking and action to make partnerships more powerful and productive.
This diagnostic tool can help you identify where your partnership is in the partnership lifecycle and identify and take actions to change this, if necessary. You are encouraged to review the separate "A brief guide to the partnership lifecycle" document before using the diagnostic tool.
This review tool is designed to help you identify the collaborative roles, structures and processes that you have already introduced in your partnership or group; and areas for development to enhance collaboration.
This short presentation illustrates the lifecycle of partnerships, helping you identify where your partnership is in the lifecycle and activities to change where your partnership is in the lifecycle, if necessary. A separate "Partnership lifecycle diagnostic tool" is available to help you assess where your partnership is in the lifecycle and identify actions to take forward.
This guidance note provides an overview of risk management including the key elements of an effective risk management strategy and the different aspects of addressing risks.
This resource is one in a series of 'Best Value Toolkits' developed by Audit Scotland to help reviewers to establish the extent to which public bodies’ arrangements are designed to achieve, and are actually delivering, Best Value. The Best Value toolkit on risk management defines best practice in risk management against 16 indicators in four areas.
Adapted from a model developed by Bury Council, this document takes you through the key stages of the Risk Management Cycle: Identifying, Analysing, Prioritising and Monitoring.
This in-depth toolkit, developed by Oldham Borough Council, offers "a general guide to the management of day-to-day risks", moving from risk management basics through a four-step process of risk management and providing a number of templates.
