• In order to achieve its full potential, Partnering, Collaborative Working and Integrated Teamworking requires all parties to adopt a radically different approach from conventional contracting. This course will help construction professionals and their clients develop the appropriate skills, attitudes and approach.
• In addition to case study examples from the tutor’s experience, delegates will work through practical tasks, based on examples from their own organisations.
Course Content:
WHICH PROCUREMENT STRATEGY?
• Procurement options available to clients; positioning Partnering in the matrix
• Steps and techniques involved in introducing and implementing Best Practice Partnering
• Evaluating value enhancements including ‘soft‘ benefits such as quality, respect for people, waste, sustainability and environmental impact
PARTNERING FOR PROFIT
• Background to Partnering - what it is (and what it isn’t)
• The costs and benefits of Partnering and Integrated Teamworking
• Strategic Partnering, Frameworks, Collaborative Working
• Mutual objectives - identifying personal and corporate objectives and developing clear statements of mutual objectives
• Issue resolution - clarifying and optimising decision support and issue escalation procedures within organisations
• Continuous improvements - through benchmarking, key performance indicators and review
• The separate roles of the Core Group, Partnering Adviser and Partnering Facilitator
• Integrating the supply team
• Bringing an integrated team together
• Planning, sharing and managing programmes of work, including variations in spend profiles
• Achieving project time, quality and cost objectives
• Identifying the impact of lifetime costs
THE PARTNERING TEAM
• Selecting the team • Selecting on objective value criteria
• Cutting through the ‘marketing hype’
• Cross-organisational training and development
• Diversity and equal opportunities • Managing risk and reward
• The respect for people KPI’s
• Addressing and overcoming problems, celebrating success
CHANGING CULTURES AND MINDSETS
• Risk and reward - bridging the public/private sector culture gap
• Team Work - building winning partnering teams through the active use of Belbin Team Roles
• Empowering individuals and developing no-blame cultures
• Knowledge management - using the cross organisational learning approach to manage knowledge built up in collaborative arrangements for future benefit of all participants
• Focusing on outputs rather than inputs
• The steps to take to reinvigorate Partnering relationships
• Contracts appropriate to Partnering including PPC 2000 and Perform21
• Strategic Forum For Construction Integration Toolkit
AVOIDING DISPUTES IN PARTNERING
• How they can be avoided • Resolving - mechanisms available
CLOSING THE PROJECT
• Post occupancy evaluation • KPI’s and DQI’s
CASE STUDIES
• Case studies will be drawn from Constructing Excellence Demonstration Projects and from the presenter’s own experience in public and private sector projects
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