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Our Consulting and Training services fall into three categories, Building Partnerships, Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence and Leadership Development.

Building Partnerships seminars and workshops focus on the steps needed to help organizations build and maintain successful and profitable partnerships or strategic alliances. We assist clients in identifying their specific needs, assess for organizational readiness, explore for potential partners, design and initiate a partnering activity, determine criteria for success and plan for moving to full partnering. These activities are based on the Partnership Continuum™ partnering process. The workshops are available separately or in combinations. Let us customize training or consulting sessions for your organization! 

Seminars and Workshops
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Ø      Developing Strategic Partnerships

This workshop helps assess your need for strategic partnerships and provides the tools to explore for the right partner.

Ø      Partnering with Your Employees – Giving You  A Strategic Edge

Employees are a gold mine of knowledge. Partnering with them gives you a strategic advantage your competitors can’t replicate. Learn how partnering with your employees will give you that strategic edge.

Ø      Creating Customer / Supplier Partnership

Customer/Supplier partnerships have long been prized as a strategy for increasing quality and profits while benefiting all involved. Learn how to use this strategy to leverage satisfaction for you, your suppliers and your customers.

Ø      Partnering for Successful Project Management

Business continues to move towards project teams. Learn how you can partner internally or externally to successfully complete a project on target…saving both time and money while increasing outcome quality.

Ø      Partnering to Achieve Six Sigma Quality

The latest buzz is achieving Six Sigma quality. But most organizations fail because of inter-departmental conflicts. Learn how to use the partnering technology to achieve Six Sigma in your organization.

Ø      Building Union-Management Partnerships

Unionized organizations have great potential when they partner with the organizations that represent their workers. Most union-management relationships are adversarial. Learn how to partner with your union in a way that benefits both parties and everyone wins…..including your customers.

Ø       Partnering for Quality Health Care

HMO’s, Health professionals and patients need to partner to ensure quality care and bottom-line requirements are met. This workshop is led by health care professionals and is designed to meet the specific needs of the health care communities and their constituents.

Ø      Partnerships in the Construction Industry

When the project must get complete on time and on budget, use the Partnership Continuum to help bring the parties together to create a Project Partnering Agreement in which everyone wins.

Ø      Partnering for a Successful Merger or Acquisition

After the due diligence and stock negotiations are complete, how do actually implement the merger of the companies. This workshop focuses on the human issues that will inevitably determine the success or failure of the merger that greatly impacts the bottom-line.

Ø      Healing Broken Partnerships Using the Partnership Continuum™

Sometimes we have to partner with those with whom we have low trust. Learn how to use the Partnership Continuum to rebuild the partnership and move from a past orientation towards a new future.

Ø      Creating Partnerships in Communities

Communities of all types are struggling to get the most for their resources. Partnering with others in a sure way to stretch the budget, increase ownership and identify new sources of ideas and energy. Creating Partnerships in Communities helps you determine your needs and explore for potential partners.

Ø      Building Public – Private Partnerships

As budgets tighten and taxpayers demand more value for their tax dollars.  The public sector needs to develop partnerships to fill the gap between public and private efforts. Let the Partnership Continuum™ model demonstrate how to develop a success public-private partnership.

Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence series of workshops concentrates on the skills individuals and groups need to increase their partnering intelligence. Starting with the PQ Assessment, the workshop series builds on the attributes of smart partners. These workshops are available separately or in combinations. Let us customize a training session for your organization! 

Workshops
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Ø      Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Partnering Quotient Assessment

Knowing your Partnering Quotient (PQ) is the first step to creating great partnerships. This exciting workshops allows you to measure your own PQ, using the PQ Assessment,  identify your strengths and weaknesses based on the six attributes of smart partners, and form an action plan for boosting your Partnering Intelligence. This workshop provides you with the groundwork to become a great partner.

Ø       Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Win/Win Orientation

Whether you're solving problems or resolving conflicts, a win/win orientation is the hallmark of high partnering intelligence. This intense workshop helps you assess your own problem-solving and conflict-resolution style, then presents specific strategies and techniques for getting to win/win.

Ø      Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Comfort with Change

Partnerships cause change. We crave the benefits partnerships bring, yet cringe at the turmoil they create. This workshop helps you explore how you feel about and manage change. It gives you and your partner(s) a toolkit for identifying areas of change and dealing successfully with anxiety and fear.

Ø      Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Comfort with Interdependence

Independence is an asset. In partnerships, it can become a liability. This workshop helps you discover how comfortable you are with depending on others - and letting them depend on you. Then it

spells out the skills you need for positive, healthy interdependence.

Ø      Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Ability to Trust

Some people give their trust freely; with others, you must earn their trust. This workshop helps you and your partner(s) identify your current trust level(s) and strengthen the trust between you - even if you've experienced periods of low or no trust. While this workshop is excellent for individuals, bringing your partner provides added benefits.

Ø      Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Past / Future Orientation

When we make decisions from a past orientation, we're doomed to repeat our mistakes. This workshop assesses your dominant

decision-making orientation, both personally and organizationally, then offers strategies that help you create new mental maps and new outcomes. This workshop is particularly useful for those interested in changing organizational culture.

Ø      Increasing Your Partnering Intelligence – Self-Disclosure and Feedback

Can you ask for what you need? Can you tell other people when their behavior makes you uneasy or distrustful? Smart partners communicate their needs and give each other feedback. This highly interactive workshop offers time-proven techniques, models and surveys that help you develop these vital partnering skills.

We help to develop leadership and organizations in two ways:

Organizational Development

• Planning, conducting and analyzing a Cultural Assessment.
• Develop a competitive, innovative and world-class Strategic Plan
• Work with you on internal or external Change Management Issues
• Conduct an Organizational Alignment assessment and implementation plan

• Team building activities
• 360º Feedback Assessment

Dr. Mitch Kusy leads our practice area in Leadership Development.

For more information on our training and consulting services, click on the ones you are interested in and we will contact you with more details.