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What activities would you find most valuable in our Partnership Brokering Community of Practice?

Communities of Practice (CoP) can develop their practice through a variety of activities. A few typical examples include:

•Problem solving  

•Requests for information 

•Seeking experience

•Reusing assets

•Coordination and strategy

•Building an argument

•Growing confidence

•Discussing developments

•Documenting lessons

•Visits

•Mapping knowledge and identifying gaps


We would like to understand what activities you would find valuable in our Partnership Brokering CoP. Please complete the survey below. We will share the results in our first CoP session on March 2 and build further on your preferred activities to co-create future CoP content.  

Problem solving activities that help me to work through specific issues I am having in my partnership group/s would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions. (i.e. ‘Can we work through this issue I am having in my partnership group; I’m stuck’.)
Sharing requests for partnering specific information would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions (i.e. ‘Does anyone have specific partnering articles, case studies, resources that they have trialled and found helpful?).
Creating opportunity for members to reuse partnering assets would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions (i.e. ‘I have a process I designed and documented to run a partnership health check in the ‘Review and Revise’ phase of the partnering cycle. I can share it with CoP members’).
Considering how we can better coordinate partnering resources across the Brisbane region would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions (i.e. ‘Can we come together to carry out more training in a particular partnering issue we have in common?’).
Providing a safe space for CoP members to test ideas and grow confidence on a brokering approach/strategy would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions (i.e. ‘Before I do it, I’ll run it through my community first to see what they think’).
Discussing innovative developments in the partnering discipline would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions (i.e. ‘What do you think of the new partnership evaluation software? Does it really help?).
Documenting partnership lessons that emerge from the CoP would be an important output for CoP members (i.e. ‘Many members have this issue in common and we discuss it a lot. Let’s document our learnings in a resource to share with all members and other brokers in our organisation’).
It would be valuable to factor in face-to-face visits to CoP member organisations?
Mapping knowledge and identifying gaps within the CoP member base would be an important activity to carry out with members (i.e. ‘Who knows what, and what are we missing? What other groups or people should we connect with?').
Supporting CoP members on how to be an influential internal partnership broker would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions (i.e. ‘How do partnership brokers in other organisations advocate for and embed organisational systems to support effective partnering? Armed with this information it will be easier to make some internal changes’).
Providing space for CoP members to seek specific experience would be valuable to include in our CoP sessions ‘(i.e. ‘Does anyone have specific experience in how to surface and manage conflict as a way of valuing diversity between partners?’).