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The State of Arizona's Department of Transportation cut $18 million in litigation costs in less than two years through incorporating the Principles of Partnering. How much are you losing?
Principles of Partnering brochure
Zen's Facilitator Profile
Partnering is defined as “a process of collaborative teamwork to achieve measurable results through agreements and productive working relationships.”
The partnering workshop's primary focus needs to be on the vision, mission, purpose and directing your team's passion. A leader that is a partnering consultant and skilled facilitator uses partnering workshops to increase profits and reduce liabilities through creating effective working relationships from the start of any large project. A change agent helps smooth the bumps.
A visioneer partnering consultant and facilitator reduces liabilities because the process addresses the critical path and bottlenecks up front, so the stakeholders are aware and able to collaboratively resolve issues. We engage 'Jobarchy' - the job is the boss and everyone wins! A visioneer partnering facilitator (change agent) can make the difference in huge gains or losses in a project. The partnering workshop becomes the playground for defining strategies, garnering support and creating stakeholder ownership.
Great leadership recognizes that dreams mold future realities and partnering workshops are a stellar way to incorporate practical team building, process development and project management. Hire a visionary partnering consultant and facilitator to launch your project in the best possible environment, aligning your vision, mission, passion and purpose. Be The Dream - Yours!
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"Under partnering, all parties agree from the beginning, in a formal structure, to focus on creative cooperation and work to avoid adversarial confrontation. Working relationships are carefully and deliberately built, based on mutual respect, trust, and integrity. Partnering provides participants with a win-win orientation toward problem resolution and fosters synergistic teamwork.”
The partnering workshop process that utilizes a partnering consultant and facilitator can continue with organizational assessments that help you bring your resource management to new levels of performance through creating great partnerships, involving individuals as stakeholders in the actualization of your mission and vision statements.
Stephen Clarke, a great mentor and partner, taught me a lot about the process and protocols.
We still do work together as he is a great asset for any partnership and/or leadership coaching.
We've worked with a variety of organizations from aerospace to education to road and bridge construction (ADOT) to healing arts, so hard and soft skills are well understood and utilized in the partnering process. The partnering consultant needs a different language to engage the participants in each industry and my background allows me to do so very effectively.
Peter Senge's revelations on systems thinking create the foundation for the learning organization to emerge as a healthy and vibrant entity, worthy of the rewards of clear choices, effective plans and growth as a business. A partnering consultant and facilitator with visionary coaching leadership incorporates the learning organization philosophy in the project mix aligning mission, vision, passion and purpose of the organization.
Your organization flourishes as a result of the attention on
leadership and code of ethics that
evolves with a partnering
consultant, facilitator and visionary coach. Excellence in education and
business is a foundational component of the holistic system. Your own capacity
as a leader will expand as a result of the attention you give to meeting the
challenge of authentic leadership, genuine concern for results, and the
people who make them happen.
“Zen is an exceptionally well qualified facilitator and manager of group processes. He is very effective watching group participants to ensure they are engaged and draws people into the process. He is very open, an excellent communicator and I enjoy working with him. His experience and education make him an excellent choice for leading groups to consensus and goal accomplishment.”
November 5, 2009 Stephen Clarke, M.A., P.C.C., Owner, Employee Involvement Systems (colleague)
Partnering Key Benefits
- Creation of working 'Partnering Agreement'
- Operational foundation created as 'Code of Ethics'
- Organizational Devotion to the Vision/Mission
- Lead by Example Philosophy - Best Practice for Change
Capabilities
Over two decades of facilitating
partnering workshops across several industries and for a variety of purposes,
with budgets ranging from $500,000,000 to $5,000. Participants have always
enjoyed the process (me too), and they often receiving much more than expected
regarding action plans and successful issue resolution processes. Conflict to
coagulation. M Skills Set: Business Consulting – analysis, execution, strategic planning, project
management Educating, Mentoring and Coaching – challenged, gifted secondary
& adult learners Event Developing, Planning, Coordinating – private and
public events Supply Chain Managing and Resource Integration – various
industries
Example of Partnering Workshop Report -
2008-Wickenburg Interim Bypass Report
Great at time management and keeping us moving along. Very
effective.
Got every point across, developed a strong structure of all
procedures to plans. He was energetic, knowledgeable and did a nice job of moving
things forward and focusing the discussion to the topic at hand.
Zen was very clear, his presentation of all phases
were very complete & thorough.
Contact Zen for Workshop Pricing and Scheduling From
Business Dictionary.com...Establishing
a long term win-win relationship based on mutual trust and teamwork,
and on sharing of both risks and rewards. Partnering arrangement can
be between labor and management, subordinates and the executive,
suppliers and customers, and suppliers and suppliers. The objective
is to focus on what each party does best, by sharing financial and
other resources, and establishing specific roles for each
participant. Possibility Coagulator - The partnering facilitators engage commitment from all stakeholders; their best in the partnership of people, places and things. The focus is on the partnering mission of purpose; adhering to an agreed upon code of ethics, with all issues (known and unknown) resolved through collaborative cooperation.
Leadership examples best practices of project management, placing community conscience and safety above all. Partnering is a powerful purpose-driven priority in any production or project. Few things are achieved by impetuous desire,
but by calm and prudent forethought instead.
Zen's CV
Partnering Facilitator Client Testimonials
Visioneer Partnering Consultant and Facilitator
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