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Training Philosophy

Building robust, effective partnerships across sectors is challenging. Our experience suggests that around 20% of people are naturally extremely good at partnering, 20% of people simply cannot work that way and the remaining 60% can significantly improve their partnering ability through training, coaching and peer support.

TPI has identified four key areas of competencies that are essential to build effective collaborations – the ‘MUST’-haves. For a fuller discussion, please see the blog, “Building Partnering Capacity – An Essential Investment to Ensure Success”.

MUST table

Our training courses build up all four competency areas while providing the critical thinking and analytic frameworks to help participants understand partnering dynamics and provide the tools to take their partnerships to the next level.

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