Partnering between Teams and Organizations

Experience: John Gavares has extensive experience with partnering initiatives, having led over 100 intergroup partnering projects.

  “It is not the strongest of the species that will survive, but the ones most adaptable to change.” - Charles Darwin  

 Silo-busting: Partnering processes often consist of groups with competing interests and adversarial relations. This Darwin quote reminds us of the need to suspend certainty, lean into change, and to break down silos to work effectively with others.

“The significant problems we face cannot be 

solved at the same level of thinking we were 

at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

   Results: Partnering helps groups to break down silos to achieve improved trust, cooperation, coordination, communication, and collaboration. 

 Outcomes: These contribute to organization effectiveness, and to being able to complete projects 

on time, within budget and to quality standards.   

Specific Focus Areas: Partnering projects assist groups to create an improved inter-group culture, and clarity and alignment as to shared goals, roles and responsibilities, issue resolution processes, and communication norms. 

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” - Anonymous

The foundation of effective partnerships 

is based on the following principles: 

• Understand each other’s goals and risks     

• Support the needs of partners and commit to positive and productive working relationships.                         

• Create an environment of excellent clarity, collaboration, cooperation, communication and commitment  and psychological safety  

• Develop resiliency to change, superb conflict management skills, and commitment to win-win outcomes       

• Monitor and evaluate progress    

- United Airlines (SFO) inter-department project                            

- Environmental Groups-San Diego OPRA '2' Waiver                

- Cal State Univ. San Marcos Field  Svces & Planning Depts.     

- JFK Memorial Hospital Department Heads, Indio, CA                                       

- UCSD HealthCare Financial Svces and Accounts Payable                         

- Fallon Naval Air Station & Chugach Support Services                  

- Carlsbad Public Works Department                                                

- City of San Diego Public Utilities & Public Works Depts.                  

- Escondido Public Works Ops and Maint. Divisions                           

- City of San Diego CIP Departments Project