Align the incentives of different functions so university and research partnerships is not quietly sabotaged.
Building Innovation Partnerships with Universities and Research Centres
A working programme in university and research partnerships for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Managers are promoted for competence and then judged on university and research partnerships, which nobody trained them for. Authority is granted by the organisation; credibility in research partnerships is earned separately. It is designed for mixed groups, so that this part of organisational leadership is examined from more than one functional angle. The most reliable predictor of sound university and research partnerships is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. It establishes a shared vocabulary for the organisational leadership discipline so that teams can disagree productively about it. Participants finish able to explain research partnerships to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of university and research partnerships and supervised application. The version of research partnerships described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the wider organisational leadership agenda that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build a concise leadership plan for research partnerships that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Judge when to escalate university and research partnerships and when to absorb it.
Set direction on research partnerships that people can act on without further interpretation.
Agree the first three actions on university and research partnerships that will be taken on returning to work.
Delegate responsibility for research partnerships without losing sight of the outcome.
Reduce avoidable variation in how university and research partnerships is carried out across teams.
Who Should Attend
Consultants coaching leadership teams on university and research partnerships.
Executives leading multi-function programmes involving research partnerships.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes university and research partnerships.
Project and programme managers whose success depends on research partnerships.
Team leaders responsible for daily delivery of university and research partnerships.
Public sector officials applying research partnerships within a regulated framework.
Course Modules
University and research partnerships: building the bench and letting go
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Deciding on university and research partnerships when the information will never be complete
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to university and research partnerships will be introduced.
- Close out actions on research partnerships rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines university and research partnerships.
- Build the internal briefing that explains research partnerships to those affected.
Session 2Building the method for research partnerships step by step
- Confirm that contractual obligations around university and research partnerships are understood.
- Identify which function can quietly block research partnerships and address it directly.
- Decide the point at which you would escalate university and research partnerships.
- Prepare how you will respond when research partnerships is challenged publicly.
Research partnerships: resilience and the personal cost of leading
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Saying the thing about research partnerships that nobody wants to say
- Record what was learned when university and research partnerships did not go as planned.
- Agree what will be standardised in research partnerships and what will not.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about university and research partnerships.
- Set the decision rights on research partnerships: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
Session 2Building lasting competence in research partnerships
- Decide what you will delegate on university and research partnerships and what you will not, and say why.
- Check that research partnerships still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- State the outcome expected from university and research partnerships in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for research partnerships.
Research partnerships: delegation, trust and accountability
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building someone who can run research partnerships without you
- Establish what evidence demonstrates university and research partnerships is under control.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in research partnerships.
- Identify the conversation about university and research partnerships you have been postponing, and schedule it.
- Confirm that the people affected by research partnerships heard it from you first.
Session 2Who answers for university and research partnerships, and to whom
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on university and research partnerships.
- Check that records of research partnerships answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Prepare the summary of university and research partnerships that senior management will read.
- Test whether the team can explain research partnerships in their own words.
Research partnerships: deciding under pressure and incomplete information
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Delegating research partnerships without abandoning it
- Name the person accountable for each part of university and research partnerships, not the committee.
- Assess the workload research partnerships adds and what you will remove to make room.
- Set the review point at which university and research partnerships will be reconsidered.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on research partnerships.
Session 2Moving research partnerships through people who do not report to you
- Identify single points of dependency in university and research partnerships and reduce them.
- Identify your successor for research partnerships and the gap they need to close.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for university and research partnerships.
- Verify six months later that changes to research partnerships have held.
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