Building your partnering muscles: Seven core competencies
Abstract
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Partnership brings together complementary skills and institutional
synergy in addressing the complex challenges in agricultural
research for development. Therefore, no institution can afford
to ignore it and at the same time expect to deliver impact. Seven
core competencies for the success of partnerships have been
identified: leadership, ability to negotiate, conflict management
skills, effective communication, effective facilitation in
identification of core issues, effective inter-personal relations
and organizational ability. Seeking out training, coaches and
mentors who can help inculcate the principles of these seven
competencies can help program and project managers chart a
course for learning to consistently make partnering work for
them and their teams. This practice of ‘’building partnering
muscles’’ should be adopted to improve delivery of impacts in
agricultural research and development.
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