Tag Archives: Formation

Partnership and Network Listening Teams

This blog post by Phill Butler of visionSynergy discusses the use of listening teams as a network facilitation practice that increases a facilitator’s effectiveness and results in better meeting outcomes…

Tool: Network Journey Map

The Network Journey map is a visual description of the three different stages (Exploration, Formation, Operation) that we typically see in the development of a network. The map shows the goals, steps, success factors, and potential pitfalls present in each stage…

Operational Issues in Partnership – Formation Follow-up

You’ve agreed to be the Facilitator of the Partnership. What do you do next? Here are six formation phase follow-up activities that will help a Facilitator keep the momentum going…

Phill Butler: Partnership Essentials

Recorded 30 January 2016 at the 2016 Blue Med Regional Consultation in Malta, this 10-part video playlist by Phill Butler focuses on ten partnership essentials fundamental to healthy networks and effective network leadership…

5 First Year Networking Lessons

Ellen Livingood shares five lessons she learned / relearned as a founding member and leader of a diaspora outreach network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this article, she reflects on the networking challenges — common to many networks — that they encountered their first year of operation.

How to Form a Partnership to Reach a Specific People Group

India has about 4635 people groups. Many are yet to be reached with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the effective ways of reaching the unreached is through a People Group approach… In order to reach a particular People Group (like Marwaris, Sindhis, Lingayats) etc., a coordinated strategy to work together will be very useful. We call this working in partnership….

The Pocket Guide to Partnership

The Pocket Guide to Partnership is a 2-page summary of the process and principles for developing effective missional partnerships. Drawn out of nearly 30 years of field experience around the world, the Guide outlines the 3 main stages and 15 key principles of partnership development…

Networks & Partnerships

In a time when so much is being said about ‘networks’ and ‘partnerships,’ what do we really mean? Knowing what form of collaboration is most relevant to the challenge we are trying to address can be critical. Are partnerships and networks really the same? If they’re different, so what? The answer is that, no, they are not the same. And, yes, understanding their differences, their strengths and weaknesses, can have a real impact on what you do and how you do it, and can save time, energy, and frustration!

Cause Creates Community

In this video, Hein Van Wyk shares the story of the formation of a national partnership in Namibia, and how a strong sense of community emerged out of a common cause.

Crossing the Line of Commitment

A partnership always defines its own ground rules regarding participation. Typically ‘strong’ partnerships are based on very specific points of commonality among the participants and there are clear and reasonably costly participation requirements (those costs may be cash, resources, political, organizational, influence, personal loyalty and/or commitment, commitment of other tangible or intangible assets, or other obligations of participants).

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