Unlock the Power of Partnerships
A blueprint for effective and strategic partnerships between educators and employers to advance the success of all students
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As the world changes so should organizational partnerships. Only when this change happens will there be a way to magnify impact, enhance effectiveness, and create new opportunities.
Do these partnership barriers sound familiar?
If you’re struggling in any of the areas below, stop spending already limited resources trying to crack the code of effective partnerships and let us help.
Having Difficulty
building a win-win relationship that has a strong foundation of communication, coordination, and collaboration among all stakeholders?
Trouble
allocating the right support & resources to build and scale a process that maintains quality partnerships among educators and employer organizations?
Not Sure About
what readiness and capacity indicates a partnership has what it takes to go to the next level (Powerful Partnership status)?
You're Not Alone
Now Imagine A Talent Development System Where
- Employer organizations have the right structures and processes to engage with educators and young people.
- Districts and Post-Secondary institutions have the right structures and processes for their educators and young people to engage with employers.
- Educators fuel students' curiosity by engaging young people in exploring solutions to authentic, open-ended problems and experiencing transformational work-based learning experiences relevant to the world of work.
- Young people are graduating with success skills for life as they enter the phase of their life.
THIS COULD BE YOU
Gain 20 Years of Partnership Building Experience In a Variety of Ways
There is an art and science to building Powerful Partnerships! Achieving an effective partnership that produces results desired by both the educators and the employers requires a blueprint that incorporates a strategy, a guided process, and Ford NGL’s expertise.
The Blueprint for Creating Powerful Partnerships
We’ve packaged everything we’ve learned about building Powerful Partnerships into one core blueprint that we’re going to share with you
Identify & Develop
- Partnership Outreach
- Discovery Meetings
- Capacity and Readiness Assessments
- Onboard and Strengthen Relationships
- Capacity Building/Professional Development
Sustain & Scale
- Expand Depth and Breadth
- Succession Planning Process
- Lessons Learned
- Exit Interview
Implement & Manage
- Partnership Strategic Planning
- Co-design & Co-create
- Governance Frameworks
- Implementation Meetings
- Document Progress
Measure & Improve
- Monitor, Assess & Evaluate
- Celebrate
- Accountability & Reporting
- Continuous Improvement
- Annual Partnership Retreat
A Customized Plan Just for You
Regardless of what your partnership strategy looks like today, Ford NGL coaches will conduct a series of discovery meetings that produce solutions-based, customized recommendations outlined in a support plan.
Want to Know How to Implement this Blueprint and Become a Powerful Partnership Expert?
If you’re struggling to create Powerful Partnerships that transform the lives of the students in your community, and are looking for an easy to follow, customized, system and set of tools that’s instantly ready for you to implement, then simply enter your information to learn more.