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Collaborate.

Kathedral Partnering provides accretive ROI value and certifies project collaboration and risk management diligence.

At each critical point in the project life cycle Kathedral builds team candor and engages teams to outperform expectations, de-bias assumptions, and shore up inherent project team and environmental limitations.

 

Kathedral Partnering

Pricing plans are available upon request

Kathedral delivers a project life-cycle program of customized partnering & teaming infrastructure, tools, & strategic perspective to facilitate better collaboration, execution, and risk management mastery.

Kathedral Partnering is a next level development standard that brings the owner, architect, contractor, & stakeholder team members together regularly throughout the life of a project. Partnering provides a structured space for unfiltered group communication, improved coordination, reliable progress measurement, and expedited issue resolution. Over time, partnered teams build interactive trust, a reliable predictor of high performing teams. Through Partnering, fragmented teams coalesce around a shared objective: increased productivity and successful project delivery.

Teaming, separate internal team coaching is customized to leadership and organizational circumstances on an as needed basis.

Sample Project Partnering plan features:

  • Project onboarding and strategic planning

  • Risk management & collaboration workshops for multiparty project teams

  • Interdepartmental stakeholder collaboration

  • Planning & collaboration workshops for leadership

  • Stabilization transition workshops

  • Prefabrication integration collaboration

  • Facilitated issue resolution framework

  • Personnel engagement assessments

  • Randomized team observation & analysis

  • Project workshop summary & prioritized action reports

  • Operational Systems diagnostics

  • Executive level project advisory reports & analytics

  • Internal leadership and team coaching

Elements of the Kathedral Partnering model

Kathedral Partnering Facilitator

The facilitator guides teams through the partnering process; and neutralizes power imbalances to optimize communication, learning, and engagement.

Project Team

Project team members vary throughout the life of a project. In general, there are three tiers of project teams: Executive, Core, & Stakeholder. These teams tend to be composed of management and principal staff for the owner, architect, contractor, property management, maintenance/engineering, and major subcontractors. For internal teaming, the project team is customized to an organization’s focus, often at the executive or project leadership level.

Internal Teaming

Kathedral structures and coaches internal teams and leaders on a customized basis to increase organizational candor and shared commitment to its purpose. This is distinct from project partnering with a customized focus on an organization’s internal teaming and execution capacity as opposed to multi-organization collaboration.

Partnering Specifications

Provides an outline for how and at what frequency you will Partner.

Charter

Co-created by the team in the kick-off session, the charter establishes shared project goals and identifies the strategies to meet them.

Issue Resolution Process

Established during kick-off session, the process is facilitated by Kathedral to expedite issue resolution and define pathways to elevate problems that remain unsolved.

Engagement Interviews

At various plan intervals confidential engagement interviews are conducted by the Kathedral facilitator to better understand team member perspectives and contextual background.

Digital Workbooks

The facilitator prepares and issues a set of diverse questions or requests to team members. Answers to these help guide the form and content of each facilitated workshop. Digital workbooks are an anonymous means to gauge team awareness, unearth and contextualize issues, and seize opportunities.

Facilitated Partnering Workshops

Workshops are facilitated by Kathedral at determined partnering plan frequencies (monthly, quarterly, milestone) to update goals, track accountability to commitments, identify issues, and resolve them. Workshop participants are composed of Executive, Core, and/or Stakeholder team members as determined by project milestone and planning criteria.

Reporting & Analytics

Kathedral structures qualitative and quantitative partnering data into user friendly reports that document status, measured progress, and prioritized action items.

Randomized Observation

The Kathedral facilitator observes teams during typical work days to better understand individual and team dynamics. This is then applied to workshop planning and analytic data.

Anonymous Project Surveys

Sent to the team once a month to assess & track progress toward goals.

Lessons Learned Session

Upon project closeout, a project life cycle database is reviewed, edited, and collated in final draft.