Measuring and Maintaining Partnerships

Program Description

An Overview

With a partnership agreement in place and the collaborative work well underway, it’s important to measure the success of the partnership so that you understand what’s working – and what could be improved.

This module introduces several ways to measure and evaluate both progress on a partnership project and the overall health of a partnership relationship.

You’ll be answering the following questions:

• How can we measure the state of our partnership?
• What are the ways to measure partnership or project/program outcomes?
• How can we identify the traits of a healthy partnership?
• How can we create a culture of collaboration and learning?
• How can we best manage disagreements and conflict within partnerships?

This module is one of five in a series designed to help affordable housing providers make well-informed decisions about partnering.

• Online,  self-directed module
• Participants have 30 days to complete
• Module is one of five in the Partnerships curriculum.

Topics Include

Defining Sustainability | Benefits of Green Buildings | Motivation for Change | Benchmarking and Tracking | Energy Management | Pest and Site Management | Water and Waste Management | Financing Sustainability

What You’ll Learn

By the end of the course, successful participants will have created a building operations and maintenance sustainability plan for their building or buildings.

Time Commitment

This course includes approximately 32 hours of content. It is recommended that you commit to studying for 3-4 hours a week in order to be done in 8 weeks. However, you will have up to 3 months to complete.

You can progress at your own pace, log in to do assignments, and participate in forum discussions whenever when it’s convenient for you. Having said that, we do encourage you to stick to the posted weekly schedule so that most participants will be working on the same topic at roughly the same time.

Prerequisites

Some prior knowledge of Operations and Maintenance would be helpful. Completion of Asset Management Foundations is recommended but not mandatory

 As an online course, participants must have basic computer skills and have access to a computer with MS Office 2010 or later and a modern, safe browser. We recommend Chrome, however any updated browser will work. Templates used in this course may require MS Excel, MS Word and .pdf reader. This course is provided in English and requires reading and writing at a grade 8 level.

Registration Details

To register, click on the button above to login to our secure Registration site.

Note:

We require a unique email address for each course participant as our online learning system will not accept duplicate emails.

Registration Assistance

For step-by-step registration instructions (PDF) and/or our cancellation policy, check out the Program Info: HousingU Registration page.

Registrants will receive course access instructions from learn@bcnpha.ca one week prior to the course start date.

Volume Discount

Register 3 or more people from the same organization for this course and your rate will be reduced to $109 each (+GST). This offer is for BCNPHA members only. To take advantage of this discounted rate, please email learn@bcnpha.ca.

For More Information

For more information about course content, contact Kate Nielsen – Education Lead learn@bcnpha.ca