Partnerships from the seeds of collaboration: Cooperation pays off in leadership development program

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Design/methodology/approach

This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Findings

In 2007, Birmingham City University (UK) and the West Midlands National Health Service (NHS) Strategic Health Authority developed and implemented the leadership, education and partnership project. The project aimed to develop genuine partnership and collaborative working among health and social care education providers from a range of higher education and NHS organizations in the West Midlands region of the UK. Neither the partnership label nor the most robust of partnership contracts will make a partnership succeed. That is something only the people within the partnership can do. This project demonstrated that partners who are already collaborating, or are predisposed to do so, are more likely to build and sustain a partnership that really delivers.

Practical implications

The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.

Originality/value

The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Citation

(2016), "Partnerships from the seeds of collaboration: Cooperation pays off in leadership development program", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 30 No. 6, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-08-2016-0081