Category Archives: Video

Mining Your Network

In this webinar presentation, Lucas King outlines four essentials for increasing the level of engagement, contribution, and sharing within missional networks and partnerships…  

The Foundation of Effective Partnerships

In this videoJose de Dios shares a story that reveals the true foundation of effective partnerships. Good partnerships depend on strong relationships, and strong relationships depend on trust, and trust is built through shared experience. “We needed to understand who we were as a partnership … and what it was that we were really trying to accomplish,” says de Dios, “and just sitting down to write out some kind of contract wasn’t going to do it.”

Taking Time

In this video, Lynne Ellis talks about the importance of taking the time to build relationships and better understand potential partners before simply jumping into a partnership. Too many people approach partnership from the perspective of trying to get others to “partner” with them, by which they mean getting others to support their program or project. But partnership is more than that. Partnership is working together to accomplish something beyond the capacity of any one individual.