Sustaining Partnerships and Measuring Success Workshop

Course Overview

Sustaining Partnerships and Measuring Success supports participants to build long-term, effective partnerships and create clear accountability for collaborative initiatives.

Many partnerships start with strong intent but lose momentum when priorities shift, ownership is unclear, or success isn’t measured in a meaningful way. This program helps participants establish the practices that sustain collaboration over time, including clear roles, rhythms, and ways to keep initiatives moving.

Participants also learn how to define and track success measures that align to business goals, then return for an online reporting session to share outcomes, insights and lessons learned after implementing an agreed action or initiative.

What will you learn? 

After completing Sustaining Partnerships and Measuring Success, participants will be able to:

• Apply strategies to sustain collaboration and maintain momentum over time
• Establish clear accountability for partnership initiatives
• Define success measures that align with business goals
• Track and communicate partnership progress and outcomes
• Identify lessons learned and improvement actions through structured reporting
• Strengthen long-term partnership practices that support trust and follow-through

Who is this course for?

• Leaders and managers responsible for partnership success
• Project and program leads managing cross-team initiatives
• Stakeholder managers and relationship managers
• HR/P&C, L&D or transformation teams driving collaborative programs
• Anyone accountable for outcomes that rely on shared ownership across teams or organisations

Topics Covered

• Sustaining collaboration
  Strategies to maintain momentum, strengthen trust, and keep partnerships active and productive.
• Accountability for collaborative initiatives
  Clear ownership, decision-making, check-ins, and practical ways to avoid drift.
• Metrics for success
  How to measure collaborative outcomes and align them with business goals.
• Defining what “success” looks like
  Setting expectations, indicators and review points that keep partnerships on track.
• Online reporting session
  Participants reconvene after implementation to share results, insights and lessons learned.

Course Outline

Workshop session: Building sustainable partnerships

• What causes partnerships to stall (and how to prevent it)

• Momentum strategies: rhythms, touchpoints and relationship practices

• Accountability: roles, ownership, escalation and decision points

• Designing an initiative/action to implement

• Metrics and alignment: defining outcomes linked to business goals

• Action planning: what will be implemented, by whom, and by when

Implementation period

• Participants implement an agreed action or initiative in their workplace

Online reporting session: Measuring success and sharing insights

• Report outcomes against agreed measures

• Share what worked, what didn’t, and lessons learned

• Refine partnership practices and next steps