1. 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

2. Isn’t everything a partnership? Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking

3. Isn’t everything a partnership?

4. 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

5. 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

6. Richard Hallam Additionally ✽ People make partnerships Oppositionally ✽ Partnerships require leadership Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking

7. 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

8. 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

9. References ✽ Music and the power of partnerships, Helen Coll and Kathryn Deane, eds NAME: 2008 ✽ Price: in above ✽ Moss Kanter: http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/06/15-steps- for-successful-strate.htmlhttp://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/06/15-steps- for-successful-strate.html ✽ Hallam: www.dickhallam.co.uk/resources/Effective%20Partnership%20 Working%20April%202011.doc www.dickhallam.co.uk/resources/Effective%20Partnership%20 Working%20April%202011.doc ✽ Lee & Plumpton: www.leeandplumpton.co.uk/ Attleborough, Norfolkwww.leeandplumpton.co.uk/ Musical Inclusion Evaluation & Networking

10. 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