The ENWORKS Partnership: A winning formula for effecting change in business

ENWORKS Partnership

• Formation of the Partnership

• Initial funding

• How we deliver advice

• Type of advice

• Why the model works

Partnership development

• Governance structure - Clear leadership - Strong accountable body - Clarity of roles - Wide spectrum of interests - Aims agreed prior to funds - Bid developed with Board input

• Management team - Responsible to the Board

• Delivery mechanism - Defined the process

ENWORKS partnership

Three core elements to our partnership structure:

• Partnership Board• Central Management Team• Delivery Partnership

ENWORKS objectives

• To raise quality standards and achieve consistency

• To plug the gaps where support has been unavailable

• To improve communications and marketing

• To work towards a common vision

• To avoid duplication

• To learn from good practice and evaluate success

• Strengths- Duration and profile- Practitioner developed proposal- Annual independent evaluation- Diversity of partners- Outcome driven not funding driven

• Challenges- Pet projects / easy to describe- Expectations from partners- Winners and losers- Diversity of partners

Initial funding proposal

• Don’t employ advisors

• Large, externally defined geographic areas (5 sub-regions)

• Existing local organisations with strong track records

• Staff not dedicated to the project

• Adopt external professions competencies

• Business Link (s)

• Independent evaluation

• Stakeholder communications

• And more recently…

- Bank of specialist consultants

- Work with sector specific support bodies

How we deliver

No relationship Wanting some form of support

Initial stages of the relationship

Commitment to action

• Local profile

• Long-term project

• Business Link brokerage

• Innovative marketing

• Responding to need

• Wide scope of activity

• Local delivery

• Solution focused

• Quantify the benefit

• Quality assurance

• Consistency

• Long-term relationship

• Setting expectations

• Local delivery

• Technical support

No relationship Wanting some form of support

Initial stages of the relationship

Commitment to action

• Local profile

• Long-term project

• Business Link brokerage

• Innovative marketing

• Responding to need

• Wide scope of activity

• Local delivery

• Solution focused

• Quantify the benefit

• Quality assurance

• Consistency

• Long-term relationship

• Setting expectations

• Local delivery

• Technical support