Partnerships & Ecosystem Building
No purpose-led organisation achieves its mission alone. Learn to identify the partners and ecosystem actors that matter, assess fit and risk, design fair partnerships with clear roles and governance, formalise them, manage the relationship, measure its value and decide when to renew, scale or exit.
Part of Course 5 · Sustain & Run · US$29, or all five courses for US$109.
You create: Partnership Strategy
12 lessons and reviews · about 3.9 hours including exercises.
Every lesson has a short video, the written explanation with examples, a guided exercise that saves into your organisation pack, and a sheet in the Partnerships & Ecosystem Building workbook.
Begin this module →Your lesson sequence
- 12.1Why partner: types of partnership
- 12.2Partnership strategy and value proposition
- 12.3Ecosystem and partnership mapping
- 12.4Partner selection and due diligence
- 12.5Alignment, power dynamics and equitable partnerships
- 12.6Designing the partnership: roles, governance and resources
- 12.7Formalising: MoUs and partnership agreements
- 12.8Managing the relationship
- 12.9Partnership risk and conflict resolution
- 12.10Partnership monitoring, health checks and KPIs
- 12.11Renewal, scaling or exit
- 12.12Your Partnership Strategy
Partnerships & Ecosystem Building workbook
Module-12-Partnerships-Ecosystem.xlsx · included with the course. Sheets: Partnership types, Partnership strategy, Partner map, Due diligence, Alignment check, Partnership design, Agreement checklist, Relationship plan, Partnership risks, Health check, Renewal and exit.
Sheets named after a tool use that tool’s columns, so the workbook can be imported into the Impact Tools without retyping. The file is being prepared and will be available to course purchasers.
Tools for this module
Each tool is the live version of work you draft in this module. They are optional; the course and its Excel workbook are complete on their own.
- Relationship CRM — Keep contacts, relationship context, agreed actions and next conversations in one focused relationship workspace. Lessons 12.3, 12.8
- Meetings, Actions & Decisions — Prepare agendas, record minutes and decisions, assign actions, and export a clear record of what was agreed. Lessons 12.8
- Issue & Risk Management — Connect issues, risks, owners and actions in one management workspace. Lessons 12.9