Hi all:


Just wanted to let you know about my upcoming teleclasses on building
alliances, coalitions, and partnerships! First class begins October 21.



7 erroneous assumptions people often make when developing or participating
in alliances, coalitions and partnerships!

1.      Participants are motivated by the same interests.

2.      Conflict is not desirable in an alliance, coalition or partnership.

3.      There are no power dynamics in their group.

4.      Leadership skills used in their home organizations work well in
multi-stakeholder organizations.

5.      Partnerships are organized the same way as the organization they
work in.

6.      The work of a member of an alliance, coalition or partnership is to
only to attend meetings and share information.

7.      An alliance, coalition or partnership can be organized and
maintained with very little co-ordination effort.


Reality Bites:


1 Organizations have different missions, client groups and services so why
would they not have different interests.

2. Alliance type organizations are vehicles for conflict resolution. Their
implicit purpose is to resolve conflict by naming it and working through it.

3. There are always power dynamics in any human system.

4. Traditionally what we deem as leadership is what we see used in
hierarchically organized structures with centralized power. When power is
dispersed amongst organization partners as in multi-stakeholder processes, a
different form of leadership is required. I call it lateral leadership.

5. Partnerships can function as democratic organizations if they are
organized on a power sharing model.

6. The work of any organization is to transform knowledge. You do that
through decision making. If no decisions are ever made then the process is
not an organization.

7.      A coalition/alliance/partnership needs more co-ordination not less,
since it needs to transcend many organizational boundaries and interests.



Holding these and other assumptions can lead to costly mistakes and
organizational paralysis. If you would like to learn how to succeed with in
your multi-stakeholder process, you can attend a teleclass  or purchase my
new book Alliances, Coalition and Partnerships: Building Collaborative
Organizations.

For information on the following teleclasses go to joanroberts/teleclas.com

1.      Managers, organization and community developers: you can build
successful alliances, coalitions and partnerships!
2.      Discover the 6 phase development framework to build successful
alliances, coalitions and partnerships.
3.      Build the infrastructure for successful alliances, coalitions and
partnerships!
4.      Discover the different kind of leadership skills you require for
successful alliances, coalitions and partnerships.
5.      Learn strategies and techniques to deal with power issues in
alliances, coalitions and partnerships and improve your effectiveness with
this emerging form of organization.


My new book entitled Alliances Coalitions and Partnerships, Building
Collaborative Organizations, published by New Society Publishers, will be
hot off the press next week. To attend the book launch or purchase a copy
visit www.joanroberts.com

Joan

Joan Roberts
Joan Roberts Consulting
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"Helping Large Systems Change"
New Teleclass: Building Successful Alliances Coalitions and Partnerships.
Register at http://www.joanroberts/teleclas/.com

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