Why partnership? ✽ The only reason to have an idea is so that someone else can have a better idea - Robert Jarvis ✽ Burying mutual distrust for individual gain - some cynic ✽ Everyone involved in music education should work together to deliver a universal music education offer - Music Manifesto Report No. 2 ✽ If you’re a maths teacher, you’re likely the only person involved in a young person’s mathematical development; if you’re a music teacher you’re only one of several - Richard Jones Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Isn’t everything a partnership? Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Isn’t everything a partnership?
What makes a quality partnership? ✽ A clearly identified problem ✽ Which can only be solved by joint working ✽ Equal commitment from all partners, irrespective of status ✽ Partnership isn't a spectator sport. But it isn't a competitive sport either ✽ It’s about what your clients need, not what you can supply David Price Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Additionally ✽ Build organisational bridges Oppositionally ✽ The ultimate value of a partnership is the new knowledge and skill it brings ✽ Networks of the weak do not survive. The best alliances join strength to strength Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Richard Hallam Additionally ✽ People make partnerships Oppositionally ✽ Partnerships require leadership Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Helen Coll & Kathryn Deane Additionally ✽ Rule 1 Never assume ✽ Rule 2 You can’t ever be too clear ✽ Rule 3 Multiple agendas are OK - provided you obey rules 1 and 2 Oppositionally ✽ Some partnerships are more equal than others Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Danger points Remember the overheads ✽ Performing requires forming, storming, and norming Don’t ignore your strategy ✽ Will partnership get me where I want to be? Choose the right tactics ✽ solving problems (Price) or adding learning (Kanter) ✽ personal (Hallam) or organisational (Kanter) ✽ unbalanced (Coll & Deane) or all strong (Kanter) ✽ single goal (Price) or multiple agendas (Coll & Deane)? Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
References ✽ Music and the power of partnerships, Helen Coll and Kathryn Deane, eds NAME: 2008 ✽ Price: in above ✽ Moss Kanter: for-successful-strate.htmlhttp://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/06/15-steps- for-successful-strate.html ✽ Hallam: Working%20April% doc Working%20April% doc ✽ Lee & Plumpton: Attleborough, Norfolkwww.leeandplumpton.co.uk/ Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking
Dave Price (2) Partnerships and partners need to be ✽ Sharing, open, inclusive, trusting Collaboration needs ✽ Culture of honest, respectful, self-critical debate ✽ A risk-taking attitude ✽ A willingness to change Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking