Partnering Facilitation Services

What We Do

Kickoff Partnering Workshops

ATI Systems facilitates kickoff partnering workshops where success-oriented project owner and contractor representatives can meet in a retreat or virtual environment to build partnering teams – establishing cooperative relationships, defining mutual goals, and developing the project’s management methods.

ATI Systems stresses team building that is focused on each project’s specific issues, opportunities, risks, and goals. This makes for a partnering retreat that achieves the teambuilding while simultaneously establishing the team actions and understandings that will orient the project for success – The result a productive partnering workshop!

Hundreds of projects with teams sized from 4 to 232 have benefitted from ATI Systems support in establishing early stakeholder commitments to cooperation, shared goals, open communications, and rapid issue resolution.

ATI Systems rapidly adapted to Covid-19 with successful virtual workshop techniques, so the benefits of partnering are still available.

Partnering Executive Sessions

ATI Systems facilitates leadership partnering sessions, to strengthen the management of partnering programs. These executive sessions are offered in advance of partnering workshops and on larger projects as regular follow-up partnering meetings.

These strategic partnering sessions emphasize leadership as distinguished from management, very much in the sense defined by John Kotter of the Harvard Business School and summarized to the right.

Project Follow up Services

Customer feedback is so important; so, imagine the benefits of regular feedback from all the stakeholders’ perspectives. A partnering culture with commitments to project success, open communications, and cooperation, can be a great aid to making course corrections on one’s project based on real-time feedback from the stakeholders.

As a neutral facilitator, ATI Systems provides ongoing support to aid the owner and contractor program managers to maintain quality professional project partnering activities.

Conducting regular partnering effectiveness surveys.
Facilitating regular follow-up workshops.
Facilitating project close-out sessions.

Training in Partnering Concepts

Joint training is one of the most powerful tools to develop strong teams that understand the capabilities and methods of partnering. ATI Systems conducts partnering training for project teams and for professional associations.

Recognizing this, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) provides training in partnering skills development for the senior members of their larger construction projects. ATI Systems is among the partnering consultants that are qualified as a trainer for these sessions.

Excellence in Facilitation Services

Our goal is to provide our clients with the highest quality professional services and to adapt to meet our client’s unique needs.

A sample of the quality of the deliveries for an initial partnering workshop are presented in the photograph.

Our name, ATI Systems, was derived from the concept of “Achievement through Innovation.” Recognizing project managers needs to easily interact with their teams, we are unique among facilitators by creating partnering web sites for most projects we serve. These web sites serve for coordination before workshops and to make the partnering charter and workshop report available to all the stakeholders after the workshop. The web sites continue to serve the projects as a very efficient means of conducting surveys and posting survey reports, again making them available to all the stakeholders.