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Results Characteristics • Derive benefits primarily<br />
from the partnering<br />
process<br />
• Focus on low-hanging<br />
fruit<br />
Challenges<br />
• Establish sound foundation<br />
to achieve results<br />
• Achieve some early successes<br />
• Data<br />
Leadership Characteristics • Convening the partnership<br />
• Strong, visible champion<br />
• Directive, passionate,<br />
respected<br />
• Entrepreneurial<br />
• Inspire participation<br />
Mission/Strategic<br />
Planning<br />
Startup Mid-Life/Developmental Mature/At Scale<br />
• Output measures<br />
• Interim outcomes<br />
• Identify adequate interim<br />
outcome measures<br />
• Obtain resources to grow<br />
to scale<br />
• Data<br />
• Leaders are facilitators/<br />
managers<br />
• Joint ownership<br />
• Empowerment<br />
Challenges • Find the champion • Leadership transition<br />
• Hand<strong>of</strong>f from convener to<br />
facilitator/manager<br />
• Implement leadership<br />
succession plan<br />
Characteristics<br />
Challenges<br />
• Compelling mission<br />
• Clear goals<br />
• Develop preliminary work<br />
plans<br />
• Clearly articulate the mission<br />
• Achieve the appropriate<br />
balance between planning<br />
and action<br />
Resources Characteristics • Business planning<br />
• Start up capital<br />
Challenges<br />
• Adequacy<br />
• Rely on single or major<br />
source <strong>of</strong> funding<br />
Communications Characteristics • Internally and funder<br />
focused<br />
• Less formal<br />
• Message more focused<br />
on the need for partnership<br />
than the results<br />
Organizational<br />
Infrastructure<br />
TABLE 10-1<br />
PHASES OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP<br />
Challenges<br />
Characteristics<br />
Challenges<br />
• Reconfirm or revisit mission<br />
• Update strategic plan<br />
• Achieve mission alignment<br />
between partnership<br />
and members<br />
• Flexibility<br />
• Redirect resources to<br />
support partnership<br />
• Stabilize the base<br />
• Grow to resources to<br />
scale<br />
• Externally focused<br />
• Institutionalize feedback<br />
mechanisms from customers<br />
• Focus on advocacy messages<br />
to grow partnership<br />
to scale<br />
• Outreach to all stakeholders<br />
feedback system<br />
• Develop an effective<br />
• Clear and consistent • Break cultural and organizational<br />
barriers<br />
message<br />
• Funding to develop materials<br />
<strong>of</strong> stakeholders<br />
• Outreach to broader set<br />
• Lack <strong>of</strong> results to report<br />
• Build relationships<br />
• Decision-making<br />
structures<br />
• Initiating systems<br />
• Build the team<br />
• Trust<br />
• Overcome different organizational<br />
cultures<br />
• Assemble the right team<br />
• Institutionalize systems<br />
• Expand infrastructure to<br />
grow to scale<br />
• Expand the infrastructure<br />
to support expansion<br />
• Terminate non-contributory<br />
partners<br />
• <strong>High</strong>-performance<br />
outcomes<br />
• Achieve outcomes<br />
without total control<br />
over intervening<br />
variables<br />
• Continuous improvement<br />
to stay<br />
effective<br />
• Leadership diffused<br />
throughout partnership<br />
• Institutionalized<br />
• Celebrate successes<br />
• Continuous improvement;<br />
"no cruise<br />
control"<br />
• Branching into new<br />
areas<br />
• Reconfirm or revisit<br />
mission<br />
• Update strategic<br />
plan<br />
• Staying relevant<br />
• Respond to<br />
changing conditions<br />
• More diverse, stable<br />
resource base<br />
• More efficient use <strong>of</strong><br />
resources<br />
• Retain efficiency<br />
• More formalized<br />
• Less frequent; more<br />
on "as needed" basis<br />
• More externally<br />
focused<br />
• Maintain investors’<br />
interest<br />
• Listen to<br />
stakeholders<br />
• Flexibility to respond<br />
to changes in the<br />
environment<br />
• Retain partners<br />
• Retrain to stay<br />
current<br />
• Competition from<br />
start up partnerships<br />
119 Powering the Future: <strong>High</strong>-<strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Partnerships</strong>