5 Ways to Avoid Undermining Your Partnership: An introduction

The moment you visualize the possibilities of a partnership can be an invigorating. In the pursuit to achieve impact at a desired scale, it is also important to know how to navigate the speed bumps that can become road blocks. The article, “Reaching the unreached: Building resilience through engagement with diverse communities” highlights five impediments that left unchecked, could derail an otherwise successful engagement effort.

1. Introducing too much too quickly

2. Working outside formal structures and decision making processes

3. Not leveraging existing social networks

4. Seeking long-term results from short term investments

5. Seeking to build capability without building social currency

I welcome your thoughts, resources and approaches to how you have navigated the challenges of developing public private partnerships.