Whether it’s on a construction project, in outsourcing, mergers, alliances or a drug development team, we can help you improve partnering and team performance and communications.  We have led over 200 successful teambuilding and partnering projects, consistently helping teams and partnering solve problems and take their performance and communications to higher levels. 

People use the words “team” and “partnering” interchangeably.  Usually, teams are groups of people within an organization or discipline.  “Partnering” usually involves teams that bridge across departments or organizations, e.g. project teams, construction projects, drug development teams, outsourcing, mergers, etc..

Teams and partnering have tremendous potential to produce, perform, innovate and produce.  However, both teams and partnering consistently under perform and often fail.  Intelligent, motivated individuals often under communicate, miscommunicate and produce disappointing results.  Partnering arrangements that appear brilliant on paper often stall when people try to implement them. 

We have extensive experience and success with teambuilding and partnering, with hundreds of successful projects achieving lasting, positive results.  We’ve written two books on this subject --- The Partnering Solution  (Career Press, 2005) and Partnering Manual For Design and Construction (McGraw-Hill, 1996).  In addition to construction projects, our cases include outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, service, and interdepartmental collaboration. 

Several or our articles and book excerpts can help you make your own teambuilding and partnering most productive.  Click to download:

• Partnering / Teambuilding Best Practices. This excerpt from our book The Partnering Solution provides practical insights, pitfalls to avoid and best practices to follow in planning your own teambuilding or partnering work
   
• Construction Partnering Guidelines.  This excerpt from our McGraw Hill text, Partnering Manual For Design And Construction, provides valuable guidelines for using the partnering method to improve performance and communcations on construction projects. 
   

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