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Partnering/Networking - Competency

360-Feedback questions that measure Teamwork

• Forms alliances with complementary organizations to promote business operations.
• Builds alliances between departments and teams.
• Forms strategic partnerships and business alliances to expand opportunities.
• Creates value within the Company by building networks.
• Balances the strategic interests of those involved to maintain alliances.
• Develops networks and builds alliances.
• Develops internal alliances with others in the department.
• Develops alliances with colleagues at other companies.
• Supports strategic alliances to combine strengths of both parties.
• Builds alliances with others in the company.
• Forms strategic alliances with firms that specialize in areas that are complementary or help the company.

• Develops partnerships with other colleagues in the industry.
• Is an active member of professional associations or professional groups to stay connected with peers.
• Supports a partnering/networking culture.
• Networks with other professionals in the industry to understand best practices.
• Partners with other organizations to develop new technologies and processes.
• Regularly attends conferences and seminars to meet with others in the industry.
• Creates the conditions for partnerships to grow and develop.
• Attends industry conferences and seminars to meet new contacts and learn from industry leaders.
• Develops partnerships with senior leaders in the company.
• Reinforces the contacts with other organizations.
• Nurtures partnerships with key individuals in the industry to stay on top of the latest trends and best practices.
• Develops important government contacts to ensure smooth business operations.

• Expands network of colleagues to include others who may contribute to the department's success.
• Encourages employees to explore new partnership opportunities to expand market presence.
• Contacts possible partners to seek new opportunities.
• Hosts industry events or meetups to bring partners and networks together.
• Hosts forums, colloquiums, and seminars to share information and ideas.
• Inspires employees to seek out new collaboration opportunities to broaden market reach.
• Uses networks to create new business opportunities.
• Uses networks of personal contacts to gain introductions to others who may have valuable information.
• Identifies partnerships with overseas companies to expand market opportunities.
• Encourages colleagues to participate in networking opportunities.
• Seeks opportunities to meet with others.
• Willingly participates on committees and project teams.

• Develops key business contacts at other companies.
• Develops important industry contacts to facilitate business goals.
• Forms collaborative relationships with others.
• Participates in roundtables or panel discussions to share insights and gain perspectives.
• Strengthens the contacts with other departments.
• Establishes collaborative business relationships to unlock and enhance growth opportunities.
• Collaborates with other companies to inject capital in exchange for equity, fostering growth and expansion for the partner organization.
• Facilitates the formation of collaborative relationships with suppliers and vendors.
• Seeks opportunities to collaborate across organizational boundaries.
• Invests in other companies to form equity partnerships.

• Develops effective peer to peer working relationships.
• Forges mutually beneficial relationships between individuals with diverse backgrounds.
• Supports and encourages relationships that are created by diverse team members.
• Partners with peers to obtain influence within the Company.
• Provides or participates in joint ventures or co-development projects.
• Organizing team-building activities to strengthen bonds between colleagues.
• Maintains a strong track record of networking and partnering.
• Forms strong relationships with customers.
• Manages effective partnerships between public, private, and non-profit sectors.
• Utilizes contacts to build and strengthen internal support bases.
• Develops key business relationships with clients/customers.
• Is comfortable working in partnership with colleagues from other departments.
• Regularly schedules coffee chats or informal meetups to deepen personal connections.

• Effectively develops networks with colleagues that have shared interests.
• Collaborates effectively with team members to achieve shared objectives and meet collective needs.
• Capitalizes on partnerships and networks to enhance the Company's bottom line.
• Works in tandem with colleagues to pursue common goals and needs.
• Engages in collaborative problem-solving to address shared challenges.
• Actively listens to understand different perspectives and identify common interests.
• Creates joint initiatives or projects that serve the common interests of all parties.
• Finds common ground with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Searches for a common solution to shared problems or issues.
• Leverages core competencies of partners to the benefit of both parties.

• Exchanges innovative ideas with others in the network.
• Seeks to reduce institutional roadblocks to information sharing.
• Exchanges ideas, resources, plans, and technologies with colleagues.
• Exchanges innovative ideas with a network of colleagues.
• Creates an environment that supports information exchange.
• Facilitates inter-departmental collaboration and information sharing.
• Seeks to increase exchanges of information with other companies/colleagues.
• Uses informal networks to share information.
• Creates a shared knowledge base or resource center accessible to all partners.

• Aligns efforts, processes, and resources with partners to maximize strategic opportunities.
• Engages in partnerships to share risks and resources.
• Creates strategic partnerships when resources are limited.
• Develops networks with other companies to reduce costs and improve services.
• Partners with supply chain companies to enhance availability of resources and material.
• Is aware of the location/availability of resources within the network.
• Engages in partnerships that produce significant results.
• Facilitates cross-organizational planning sessions to identify where combined resources can accelerate timelines, reduce duplication, or expand service capabilities.
• Shares resources, technology, facilities, or intellectual property to benefit both partners.
• Coordinates resource-sharing agreements that allow partners to access specialized tools, expertise, or infrastructure.
• Actively seeks opportunities to integrate complementary assets (such as technology, talent, or logistical capacity) to create solutions neither partner could achieve alone.
• Creates joint ventures with others to create new entities to pursue a common goal.

• Engages with partners that offer complementary services and competencies.
• Successfully identifies complementary and compatible strategic partners with colleagues in the industry.
• Provides expertise that may be lacking in other partners or other parts of the network.
• Works to combine the unique strengths of each partner to develop new products or services.
• Aligns each partner's strengths into a cohesive service model, ensuring that roles, responsibilities, and contributions complement rather than duplicate one another.
• Encourages partners to co-invest in shared tools, platforms, or processes that enhance the combined service portfolio and expand market reach.
• Utilizes partners' key strengths to create mutual advantages.
• Coordinates cross-partner workflows so complementary services operate seamlessly, ensuring customers experience a unified, high-quality outcome.
• Facilitates joint service-design sessions where each partner contributes unique capabilities to build integrated offerings.
• Identifies the right alliance partners with complementary and compatible services and resources.
• Identifies gaps in the value chain and proactively seeks partners whose specialized expertise or technology can strengthen the overall solution.

• Facilitates cross-functional collaboration and information sharing between various stakeholders.
• Brings together representatives from multiple functions to jointly diagnose problems and co-design solutions that improve end-to-end performance.
• Coordinates cross-functional workstreams to eliminate redundancies, streamline handoffs, and strengthen overall organizational efficiency.
• Fosters cross-department collaboration, facilitates information sharing, and establishes common objectives.
• Facilitates regular cross-department meetings to surface interdependencies, resolve bottlenecks, and maintain alignment on goals and timelines.
• Encourages teams from different functions to share expertise and best practices, strengthening organizational capability and collective problem-solving.
• Ensures that information, insights, and updates flow smoothly across departments so all functions stay aligned on shared priorities and constraints.
• Engages in cross-functional activities by collaborating across boundaries.
• Optimizes processes by leveraging each function's strength.
• Promotes teamwork across departments, encouraging information exchange, and setting common goals.
• Integrates feedback from multiple departments to shape decisions, ensuring that solutions reflect the needs and realities of all affected functions.

• Nurtures a collaborative and inclusive environment that encourages knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Promotes a culture of open collaboration, offering ample opportunities and incentives for knowledge sharing and mutual learning.
• Engages in collaborative training sessions or workshops to build skills across organizations.
• Integrates lessons learned from partners into internal processes, ensuring that new knowledge is applied rather than simply documented.
• Facilitates cross-partner reflection sessions where teams jointly analyze successes, failures, and insights to strengthen future collaboration.
• Encourages partners to openly share best practices, tools, and methodologies so each organization can elevate its performance.
• Ensures that lessons learned from the partnership are disseminated and built upon.
• Creates structured opportunities (such as peer-learning circles or rotating shadowing experiences) for partners to understand each other's operations and constraints.
• Actively seeks feedback from partners about collaboration effectiveness and uses it to refine joint practices, communication norms, and shared workflows
• Creates opportunities and incentives for employees to learn and share knowledge with others.
• Promotes reciprocal mentoring relationships where individuals from different organizations coach each other on specialized skills or perspectives.

• Communicates with others in an open manner.
• Facilitates communication with others in the company.
• Engages in continuous dialogue through regular meetings or virtual meetups.
• Maintains communication channels with colleagues in the industry.
• Proactively surfaces emerging concerns or misalignments to partners early, preventing small issues from escalating into larger conflicts.
• Ensures that critical updates, decisions, and changes are communicated promptly to all partners.
• Supports communication and collaboration with other leaders in the industry.
• Involves others in communications about any changing process.
• Tailors communication methods to the needs of different partners (using written summaries, visual dashboards, or live discussions) to ensure clarity and shared understanding.
• Creates transparent communication loops where partners can easily provide feedback, ask questions, and share insights that strengthen collaboration.
• Establishes regular check-ins to ensure alignment and address any emerging issues.

• Collaborates with others to accomplish goals and objectives.
• Collaborates with other departments to streamline and improve workflow efficiency.
• Networks with clients to determine improvements in operations.
• Synchronizes efforts, processes, and resources with partners to enhance strategic opportunities.
• Shares and develops cutting-edge ideas with a network of colleagues, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Networks with others in the company to better understand the workflows and operational requirements.
• Maintains a network of partners and suppliers to facilitate global operations.
• Plans and engages resources to the partnership effort while monitoring and evaluating progress and achievements.
• Uses new techniques and procedures learned through established networks of professionals.

• Promotes awareness of interests in partnerships and networks.
• Seeks an understanding of diverse functions within the Company.
• Promotes the understanding of how the department affects the organization overall.
• Understands the potential implications of the partnership.
• Understands the potential risks/rewards of the partnership.
• Translates complex partnership dynamics into clear, accessible explanations so stakeholders understand the collaboration and how it functions.
• Can perform a SWOT analyses (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) of the partnership's potential outcomes.
• Assesses how a partnership may impact interconnected teams, processes, or customer groups, anticipating downstream effects before commitments are made.
• Evaluates how a potential partnership aligns with long-term organizational strategy, ensuring the collaboration strengthens core priorities.
• Able to highlight both the strategic benefits and potential pitfalls in collaboration.
• Can easily explain the foundations (justification) for the partnership.
• Can perform a risk assessment to show a balanced view of the partnership's potential outcomes.

• Aims to foster and sustain relationships rooted in trust and commitment.
• Ensures all participants in the network are treated fairly and equitably.
• Develops a sense of trust in subordinates so they can freely interact and share information with others.
• Develops trust in others to form partnerships and networks.
• Guarantees equitable and fair treatment for all network participants.
• Builds trust with colleagues at other companies to form partnerships to promote growth.
• Strives to cultivate and sustain trustful and committed relationships with all partners.
• Builds trust with colleagues and coworkers.
• Facilitates open and honest communication to build trust and mutual respect.
• Strives to cultivate and maintain a partnership based on trust and commitment in relationships.

• Facilitates open, structured conversations between partners to surface misunderstandings early before tensions escalate.
• Mediates disagreements by helping each party articulate their underlying interests.
• Actively prevents conflicts by identifying issues early and resolving them promptly.
• Seeks to avoid conflicts by clarifying problems early on and working quickly to resolve those issues.
• Encourages partners to express concerns transparently.
• Reduces the likelihood of recurring conflict by strengthening long-term collaboration.
• Works to translate emotionally charged issues into clear, solvable problems.
• Participates in conflict resolution to find mutually beneficial solutions.
• Proactively addresses potential conflicts by identifying and resolving problems swiftly.
• Uses neutral, evidence-based criteria to guide partners toward fair resolutions.
• Ensures solutions address root causes rather than symptoms.

• Implements clear governance structures (such as steering committees or oversight checkpoints) to maintain alignment and ensure decisions are made consistently across the network.
• Conducts periodic audits of shared processes, resources, and deliverables to verify compliance with agreements and maintain the integrity of the partnership.
• Implements effective oversight of network activities.
• Establishes appropriate monitoring of activities in the network.
• Maintains infrastructure to support partnerships and networks.
• Regularly reviews partnership performance metrics with stakeholders to ensure commitments are met.
• Establishes clear expectations at the start of a new partnership.
• Identifies areas in the partnership that require corrective action.
• Defines a partnering strategy for identifying and selecting a partner.

• Develops memoranda of understanding (MOUs) or service-level agreements (SLAs) that formalize commitments and ensure mutual accountability.
• Coordinates legal, financial, and operational reviews to ensure agreements are feasible, compliant, and aligned with organizational strategy.
• Enters into licensing agreements to share intellectual property.
• Sustains existing partnerships guided by contracts and agreements.
• Regularly revisits and updates partnership agreements to reflect evolving goals, market conditions, or operational realities, ensuring continued relevance and alignment.
• Negotiates clear terms of collaboration that define roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and performance expectations for all partners involved.