Join GBPA
GBPA provides member organisations with competitive advantage by providing access to best practice, valuable insights and practical solutions to internal collaboration and business partnering challenges.
GBPA’s unique mix of its research-based Discovery programme, experience of developing improved collaboration in key internal and external relationships across different sectors, enables GBPA to deliver outstanding value to its international community of participating organisations.
What are the benefits for your organisation?
GBPA enables member organisations to:
- understand and reduce risks in your key Customer / Service Provider relationships
- improve external collaboration effectiveness and profitability
- improve collaboration between internal senior executives
- explore critical partnering issues in a truly objective peer group environment
- access world class knowledge, experience and expertise
- source a wide range of practical solutions to partnering issues.
Knowledge of business partnering and collaboration is fast becoming a career-changing asset – in every type of enterprise. Managers who demonstrate collaborative capabilities and behaviours, and knowledge of effective partnering, are better equipped for leadership roles in their organisation. As an individual, you will have the opportunity to participate in a community of peers and acquire key partnering skills and knowledge.
GBPA provides a unique forum where senior executives can meet in an objective and confidential environment to explore critical partnering and collaborative matters – including commercial, organisational and cultural issues. This includes GBPA’s Executive Dinner Forum where there is an opportunity to meet peer C-level executives while discussing a topic of current significance, such as: ‘Driving collaborative business relationships in a challenging economic environment’.
As the C-level sponsor in a member organisation, you will have access to:
- GBPA’s research-based Discovery programme, which is member-driven to ensure the focus is on providing valuable insights and practical solutions to current significant internal collaboration and business partnering challenges
- GBPA’s highly participative Events Programme, providing the opportunity for senior executives to share and access best practice, independent advice and practical solutions, and access leading practitioners with relevant experience to share on the event topic
- A senior executive contact who acts as your sounding board, helping you identify solutions for your crucial internal collaborative issues and business partnering challenges
- A worldwide network of C-level executives from customer and service provider organisations all seeking to understand how to develop more effective, collaborative relationships.
Participation in GBPA’s member community also provides you with access to the wealth of experience and knowledge of the GBPA team through a range of advisory services, supported by GBPA’s assessment and diagnostic tools, tailored to address specific internal collaboration and external business partnering issues. These include objective Relationship Healthchecks and help in progressing on The Collaborative Journey™ in your Customer / Service Provider relationships (including complex, multi-sourcing relationships) so as to develop more effective and sustainable value adding relationships, and help in addressing internal collaboration challenges.
Importantly, in the current economic environment, membership of GBPA enables you to work with other organisations to:
- innovate
- manage risks
- reduce costs
- improve mutual profitability.
As a dynamic community of C-level executives from a wide range of business and professional backgrounds and from multiple sectors, GBPA membership is a source of mutual wisdom across the spectrum of partnering.
An organisation’s membership of GBPA is sponsored by a C-level executive, such as a board director, partner, leader of a business unit or function. GBPA coordinates invitations to GBPA events with the sponsoring individual to ensure that their colleagues can participate in aspects of the GBPA programme from which they will most benefit and from which the member organisation will get most value.
Please Contact us to find out how your organisation can benefit from participation in the GBPA community.