The New 9th Annual San Francisco Collaborative Partnering Award Applications!
We have a new San Francisco Collaborative Partnering Award Application for our 10th year, and the Awards Committee has dramatically simplified it! The Awards Committee is excited to share the new application based on team feedback. They heard from you that the application was taking too long to complete, and with this overhaul, they believe they are cutting the time to develop the application in half and that they will still be able to learn the fantastic project stories, confirm the teams’ partnering process was implemented, and hear about the issues they resolved to complete the project successfully.
The key changes:
- The Project Summary
- Using the Charters for the Goals
- Emphasizing the Issues
1. The Project Summary
Instead of a non-scored project summary, the summary is now worth 20 points. In the summary, the judges will want to understand what the team built, why the project deserves a partnering award, if there were any innovations that other teams can learn from and were there any findings or practices that the team did to improve or enhance the safety culture on the project.
When you are completing this part of the application, make sure to cover each of the bullet points to maximize your score!
2. Using the Charters for Goals
Instead of having the applicants write out a summary of how they established goals (in addition to attaching the Charter Report), we will now just have the teams attach the Kick-off Partnering Charter Report (which includes the Goals), and the final Close-out/Lessons Learned Partnering Report. It is recommended in the San Francisco Partnering Field Guide (available at www.sfpartnering.com), that the team and Partnering Facilitator should include a summary of how the team performed at accomplishing their Partnering Goals in the Close-out/Lessons Learned Partnering Report.
If the team did not complete the Lessons Learned Report, the judges included a brief narrative section where the team can describe how the goals may have been updated throughout the project. Make sure to put a small description in there even if your goals remained consistent and you have your Close-out/Lessons Learned Report attached, to maximize your points.
The judges are pleased to help eliminate duplications and un-needed extra work explaining results in multiple areas of one application.
3. Emphasizing the Issues
The Issue Resolution section still requires three sample issues that the team has resolved, and the judges will be seeking details for how the team worked through the issue and also the savings or dollar value negotiated by the team. The score is now up to 40 points – so this is THE area you need to focus your effort to ensure your team receives the maximum possible points.
The last change the judges made was to open up the application deadline – if your project reaches substantial completion or final completion after July 1, 2025 and prior to the application deadline of November 19, 2026 and you completed the minimum two partnering sessions, your project is eligible. We encourage you to apply!
-Rob
Rob Reaugh is President of OrgMetrics LLC. He facilitates the City and County of San Francisco Collaborative Partnering Steering Committee and currently works with San Francisco International Airport, San Jose International Airport, BART, Caltrans, and others. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
For more information please contact Rob Reaugh, RobReaugh@Orgmet.com / (925) 487-2404 (cell), or OrgMetrics, (925) 449-8300.