Partnership to Proposal Team Guide | Issue 4 of 8 | PAID
Who's This For
You have partners. Real ones, not just names on a letterhead. You've done the first conversations, mapped assets, aligned expectations. Now you need to design the actual activities that will make the partnership work.
This is where many partnerships stall. Someone has to take the lead on planning. Usually that someone is you. You draft the workshop structure, outline the research protocol, sketch the participant recruitment strategy. Then you send it to partners for feedback. They say it looks good. Maybe they suggest minor tweaks. The partnership feels collaborative, but you're doing the design work alone.
This issue is for anyone who senses that partners signing off on your plans isn't the same as partners shaping those plans. You want genuine co-design, but you're not sure what that looks like in practice.