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Partnership quiz

Where are you on the partnership roadmap?

The management challenges that partners face depend on the needs of the situation and where you are along the road from initial tentative contact to fully functioning partnership. Here are 20 questions to help you navigate the partnership road ahead.

Answer the following questions, which will be submitted to Socia. We will analyse your results and report back on how to help you improve your partnership's performance and get the results that you need.

Select 'Yes', 'No' or 'Doesn't apply' to each statement.

1. All parties are making different assumptions about what we mean by risk and power sharing in this potential agreement
2. I hear a series of different definitions of 'partnership'
3. We understand the need to work well together but we don't understand how
4. I can't choose which potential partner will be easiest to work with - and that's crucial to who should get the contact
5. I think that cultures of the partners are completely different - how do we assess the areas of conflict?
6. I am already having doubts about the partner that we have chosen
7. We only discuss contractual outcomes rather than what we actually need to deliver
8. It looks like 'The honeymoon is over' on this partnership
9. Milestones are being missed and contractual penalties incurred
10. Something has happened and now I can't get partners to make and stick to decisions
11. Relationships have broken down between key individuals
12. No one knows how to measure the success of this partnership
13. Different partnerships that I know seem to deliver very different performance - why?
14. The expectations of the sponsors of the partnership are much higher than we are currently delivering
15. My senior managers are spending too much time dealing with detailed partnership issues
16. I don't know how to deal with new pressures and changed requirements on the partnership
17. Some key people in the partnership are going to change and that could bring disruption and loss of focus
18. We haven't finished this contract and the other party are already negotiating the next one
19. I am losing key people from the partnership at this critical final stage
20. The partners seem to have gone off the boil so everything is slowing up as we move to the final stage of the project
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