29 Joint working across organisations and sectors is harder if partners do not have time to build relationships or decide how to work together. Members of LSPs have different interests in partnership goals and different contributions to make. Two analytical approaches can help local partners improve the ways they work:
• LSPs can use a whole systems framework to assess the balance between personal and organizational elements of partnership working.
• LSPs can review the links between strategic (direction setting), executive (resource sharing), and operational (service delivering) actions.
30 This chapter introduces a whole systems framework and the different layers of collaborative working. The following chapters use them to assess LSP progress.