1. PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS
Orientation

2. WELCOME

3. “Business partnering can be described as the application of advanced analysis, insight, influence and challenge, from a finance perspective, to enhance the quality of business decision-making and drive improved performance and culture.”

4. Program Purpose
The Partnering for Success program has been designed to build a shared understanding, set of skills and strategies surrounding developing and sustaining a partnership approach.
This program sits within the overarching Finance Effectiveness Program and supports the goal of developing a finance function that is focused on business partnering and customer led commercial outcomes.

5. Partnering Pathway

6. Program Structure Orientation LSI Debriefs (completed internally)
Module One: Mindful Self
Program Structure
Module Two: Building & Sustaining Our Relationships
Coaching Session One
Module 3: Creating a Culture of Partnerships
Coaching Session Two
Refocus session

7. Portal
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The purpose of this portal is to engage and stimulate your thinking outside of the sessions. Performance Frontiers are consistently uploading new information and videos for you to view so be on the lookout for updates.

8. Program Outcomes Key Outcomes:
Team members develop a greater level of self-awareness as well as new communication patterns and mindsets that help them build partnering relationships across the business.
Team members develop skills in engagement, collaboration and relationship-building in order to enhance team effectiveness and one team culture.
Team members are empowered to influence partnering relationship-building across Woolworths, unlocking new opportunities for creating value in a rapidly transforming business landscape.

9. Learning Dimensions
The nature of the partnership journey is that it will explore different dimensions
Participants need to know who they are and be prepared to travel in, nurture and manage well in the following dimensions:
Active participation
Discomfort
Playful exploration, interpreting, challenging
Finding ways to lean into our discomfort
Purposeful dialogue
Engagement
Opening up, appreciating ideas and different viewpoints, making meaning
Exploring agreed commitment
Paradox
Positive listening
Embracing contradictions – the for and the against – and allowing them to work together
Attuning, listening for opportunities, attending, paying attention
Respect
Presence
Respecting that we are all in this together - taking care of and looking out for one another
Being open beyond preconceived ways of understanding
Valuing people’s contribution
Appreciating and exploring the value of ideas

10. Barriers to Learning
Sometimes, even in our willingness to learn, we have mindsets and habits that unconsciously or consciously block our pathway to progress. Some barriers might be:
We find it hard to accept that we don’t know
We have no time
We are addicted to answers
We forget the body
We forget the emotional brain
We confuse learning with having opinions
We are addicted to novelty
We assess things all the time
We first distrust or mistrust
We are unable to deal well with uncertainty
We forget to smell the roses
We simply make learning heavy and difficult
“ The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
DAVID BOHM

11. Program Expectations Expectations Rules of engagement
We all create a safe container and a safe place for learning
We will be responsible and rigorous in our learning
We will start from where we are at
We will take risks in a safe manner
We will set the benchmarks high
We will apply the work in day-to-day situations wherever possible
We will reflect daily in some way
We will keep conversations going about our progress
We will participate in all sessions
Rules of engagement
We will keep high levels of confidentiality (what goes on in the room stays in the room)
We will agree to what goes “out of the room” to aid our learning
We will be appreciative
We will all be on time to every session

12. Mindsets

13. VS Program Expectations GROWTH / LEARNING MINDSET
Characteristics of this mindset:
Enjoy challenges
Strive to learn
See potential to develop new skills
Guiding principles of this mindset:
Learn, learn, learn
Believe it’s important to put a lot of effort into learning and that working hard is key
Face setbacks, learn from mistakes, confront personal deficiencies as opportunities for development
FIXED MINDSET
Characteristics of this mindset:
View intelligence and talent as something finite and that you either have (or don’t have)
Guiding principles of this mindset:
Look intelligent at all costs
Believe that learning should come naturally, with no sweat or effort
Hide mistakes, conceal personal deficiencies, retreat, blame others, act superior VS

14. “The story begins with self
“The story begins with self. It is the stuff we put in the ground … the leader is anyone capable of carrying the story that can shape and endeavour for a common good.”
CHRISTINA BALDWIN