TPI provides expertly tailored training to foundations, governments, international NGOs, the UN system and multi-national companies.

TPI has worked with organisations from all sectors to build capacity of their staff to be able to partner effectively. We offer a range of courses, both in-person and online, to suit the needs of a particular organisation or partnership, and work closely with organisations to develop a programme which will be highly effective and applicable to the participants’ context.

Prompted by COVID-19, TPI has successfully translated its popular in-person training into highly interactive, facilitated online training. A two or three-day in-person course would typically become a series of five or six two-hour facilitated online sessions, supported by offline individual or group activities and learning. They have have proven to be highly engaging and effective courses.

I thought the console was very professional with fantastic use of online tools – I really liked the use of Menti with online drawing with Powerpoints an group work etc. – at points I thought it was even more interactive than some face-to-face trainings I have been on.” – 2022 Course Participant

Depending on the needs of an organisation, TPI can deliver lightly-tailored existing training courses such as the 2.5 day (or 5 online session) ‘Essential Skills for Effective Partnering’ course, or develop new courses specific to the organisation. Some examples of courses which can be delivered are:

• Essential skills for effective partnering
• Partnership negotiation and holding difficult conversations
• Stakeholder engagement
• Training of trainers
• Partnership review and evaluation
• Advanced / specialist masterclasses

All TPI courses balance the delivery of core knowledge with interactive learning and peer-to-peer exchange. The courses are designed to combine theory with the practical application of learned skills and concepts using case studies and scenarios, group activities and individual reflection.

Typically, a tailored course would be developed in close consultation with an organisation over two stages:

• Scoping and needs assessment
• Workshop design and material development

During the scoping and needs assessment stage, TPI will research and review an organisation’s (and collaborator’s if applicable) current partnering activity, partnering objectives, challenges faced and specific skills needs. This will be conducted in consultation with key personnel through interviews and the analysis of available materials. The findings will enable the project team to design a training course most appropriate to the needs of the participants and the organisation’s partnering objectives.

The findings from this stage will be used in the workshop design and material development to adapt existing and established TPI training materials to the context of the organisation. For sections of the training which use case studies or role plays, material will be developed which either uses current examples of the organisation’s partnerships, or is adapted to ensure direct relevance to the participants work.

Please contact us to discuss tailored training options.

TPI has a strong background in developing tailored training courses for organisations and partnerships, and below are just some of the examples of courses which have been delivered.

Partnership Accelerator

As part of a major and ongoing collaborative programme between TPI and the UN system, the Partnership Accelerator continues to scale partnership training globally through a cascading approach based around National Partnership Training Workshops. TPI has developed a core training course which it then modifies to the context of each training workshop, and delivers through its network of Associates.

Sightsavers

Following previous work for Sightsavers in 2017, when TPI designed and delivered a workshop to support the organisation’s effective and strategic partnering with and within consortia, in September 2022 Sightsavers commissioned TPI to design and deliver a bespoke facilitation and negotiation workshop for key staff. Building on the key messages from our Effective Partnering for Sustainable Development course,  the two-day, in person course explored topics such as facilitation techniques and planning; interest-based negotiation and value maximisation negotiation; power, trust and stakeholders; online facilitation; influencing; and finally difficult conversations and conflict management.

Slipstream

In 2022 TPI designed and delivered a five session facilitated online training course for Slipstream, a mission-driven non-profit that inspires new solutions to big energy challenges by empowering more people to adopt new practices and technologies. The course was designed to equip individual members of Slipstream’s staff with the understanding and skills needed to partner effectively, and to support Slipstream’s partnership work by inspiring a group of “partnership champions”. The course focussed on partnering fundamentals, value creation through partnership and identifying Slipstream’s unique value proposition as a partner, understanding stakeholders and sectors, including engagement with community groups, trust, power and equity and the partnering relationship and practical action planning for the future.

Johnson & Johnson

As part of an ongoing project with the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Foundation to strengthen its institutional partnering capacity, TPI provided partnering training for J&J’s Global Community Impact team across three regional cohorts. The training focussed on the key building blocks of effective partnering, using real J&J case studies case studies and examples, and was followed by the development of an online interactive self-guided course including tools, videos and podcasts which provided further guidance and insight into partnering.

UNESCAP

Across 2021 and 2022, TPI delivered a tailored version of the Effective Partnering for Sustainable development online training course for UNESCAP for a two cohorts of key staff based in South and East Asia regional and sub-regional offices.  Modules explored partnership typology and potential stakeholders; value creation through partnership; partnership negotiation and set-up; keeping partnerships effective; and finally troubleshooting and planning for the future.

Other tailored training

TPI has conducted training for over fifty organisations, including from the UN (e.g. UNAIDS, UNDP, WFP, FAO, IFAD, IAEA, UNESCO, UN FPA, UN Women, UN Kosovo, UN Saudi Arabia, World Bank, UNDESA); NGOs (e.g. Care, Plan, Oxfam, World Vision, JDC, UICC, SOS Kinderdorpen); government (NL Ministry of Foreign Affairs, OECD, DFID, MCC) and business (Novo Nordisk, Medtronic, Microsoft, Shell, BG Group, Bonsucro).