Collaborative Training Consultants
102 Lake Hills Road,  Tullahoma, TN 37388
Phone 931-454-2323
Cellular 931-247-4647
 
email peteroot@ctc-usa.net

Workshop Methodolgy

We recommend an initial one or two-day Partnering workshop for most projects, and a three day workshop for larger, more complex projects.   The one and two-day workshops generally follow the same format, with the primary difference being much more time devoted to creative problem solving and the resolution of real project issues in the two-day workshop. Our Creative Problem Solving Process and Action Planning is a classic approach to small team empowerment, problem solving, and plan implementation. The addressing of real issues during the initial workshop helps to get partnerships started on the right foot with everyone pulling together as a team.

Prior to a workshop, we coordinate with the client and other appropriate individuals to identify specific team concerns and tailor the agenda to meet their needs.

During our workshops, we capture on paper all of the issues, action plans, participants' biographical data, phone numbers and addresses, goals and objectives, Partnering Charter Agreement, and all of the work done in the small groups. Each participant receives a complete record of  everything  that occurred (click to see typical workshop minutes) during the workshop, via e-mail in Adobe Acrobat PDF format,  within two or three days following the session.

 If there is not enough time to solve all identified issues during the workshop, the Partnering Teams identify individuals responsible for taking action, and the date and time for the next Partnering meeting to work the issue.  This procedure ensures continuation of the problem solving process, and precludes the possibility that the Partnership becomes only an "event" of the workshop with no basis for continuation.  The methods utilized by CTC ensure that the workshop is the start of a process that will grow over the life of the project.

We believe that the Partnering concept is applicable to any undertaking involving different individuals or organizations.  Partnering began in the construction industry, but it is not limited to construction projects.   Pete has successfully facilitated Partnering training workshops between different government agencies that have to work together, within manufacturing firms; and within academia.  We have facilitated Partnering workshops, with aggregate attendance of over 10,000, for over $11 Billion worth of projects ranging in value from $500 Thousand to $ 1 Billion.  Due to repeat business from satisfied clients, some individuals have attended as many as twenty different Partnering workshops facilitated by Pete.

We recommend and provide in-progress assessment, reinforcement, and refocusing service, to include periodic one-half day or one-day follow-up workshops.  We help the team develop mechanisms for self-evaluation during the initial workshop.  In the heat of day-to-day duties, it is sometimes easy for individuals to lose their Partnering focus and begin taking partisan positions on issues.  The follow-up workshops are very effective in honing the team's collective and individual commitment to success and accomplishment of their joint goals and objectives. Specific issues are also identified, addressed, and "put to bed", rather than allowing them to fester and grow into full-blown problems which cannot be resolved without litigation.

We believe that our greatest strength in facilitating Partnering workshops is our vast "hands-on" Partnering experience. Pete Root helped pioneer Partnering on the J-6 Large Rocket Test Facility.  This $250 Million, high-tech, complex, state-of-the-art solid rocket motor test facility included a $177 Million firm fixed price construction contract as its major component. The project was completed four months ahead of schedule,  $12 Million under budget, and  the construction contractor worked nearly 3 million man-hours with only four lost-time injuries.  It is truly a Partnering success story.  The J-6 team pioneered Partnering, and we can pass on successful ideas to clients to help them find new and innovative ways of looking at problems or situations. Workshop participants, who have participated in Partnering workshops facilitated by management consultants lacking an extensive construction and Partnering background, continually tell us how much more benefit they receive from our workshops due to Pete's "hands-on" construction Partnering and project management experience.   Click here to see the Article co-authored by Pete and his J-6 Partners, published in The Military Engineer, the publication of the Society of American Military Engineers, about the J-6 Partnering Experience, entitled Partnering Brings Success.

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