SOUTHEAST

     ENTERPRISE

     FACILITATION

     PROJECT

 

 

     Nancy Larsen, Facilitator

      501 South Broadway/ PO Box 106

      Marion, South Dakota 57043

      (605) 648-2909 or (888) 233-1239

      Fax (605) 648-3778

      email: sefp@southeasternelectric.com

      Website: www.sefp.com

 

 

 

      June 1997—December 2005

        Ÿ784 Inquiries

        Ÿ411 Clients enrolled

        Ÿ    40 New Businesses

        Ÿ  14 Expanded Businesses

        Ÿ  18 Retained Businesses

        Ÿ 124/104 New/Retained Jobs

        Ÿ 111 Business Plans (last 3+ yrs)

 

      2005 Calendar Year:

        Ÿ  86 Inquiries

        Ÿ  43 Clients enrolled

        Ÿ    9 New Businesses

         Ÿ    3 Expanded Businesses

        Ÿ    1 Retained Businesses

       Ÿ  21 New Jobs

        Ÿ    9 Retained Jobs

        Ÿ  36 Business Plans

 

Partnering Exists For Success

By Mark Buechler, SEFP President

 

Partnering exists when two, or more, organizations develop a close and, generally, long-term relationship to work together as partners.  The Southeast Enterprise Facilitation Project has a genuine commitment to team up and partner with organizations to better serve the citizens and communities in Turner and Hutchinson counties. 

 

Partnering is increasingly acknowledged as an essential ingredient to competitiveness and business survival. Partnering requires teamwork, it is 95% perspiration and 5% inspiration.  Developing a relationship requires more time, not less.  Partnering places value above price and quality above quantity.  Every business is looking for success in today’s global economy. 

 

Like the best ideas, partnering is a simple one. Although it demands considerable work, commitment and patience, its rewards can be immense.  Partnering can help you to plan better through long-term, information-rich relationships with organizations, government offices, and businesses and innovate through better information from them, and from access to the technical resources of each.

 

The partners must agree on common goals, then build the commitment, trust and mutual support necessary to achieve them. A successful ingredient to a partnering relation is a clearly defined strategy that sets out the aims, objectives and long-term goals.  It should also not be seen as a one-off solution but a culture that is applied continuously.  A partnering relationship works because the parties have an interest in each other's success.

 

Partners regard themselves as part of the same team with the same aim: to ensure that their link in the business environment is strengthened so that the end-user is fully satisfied.

 

A partnering relationship focuses on the long term.  A partnering relationship will work only when both parties feel that they are not being exploited. They must feel confident that the relationship is on a sound footing and that it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. And they must be able to discuss problems frankly and constructively.  Full, candid, frequent and open communication between partners is an essential requirement for success.  A partnering relationship is not an end in itself, but a means to an end; an increase in competitiveness and the enhancement of quality.

 

SEFP is proud of its achievements.  We can achieve more with the addition of partners that will strengthen our abilities and increase our sustainability in the future.

Partnering is…

95% perspiration and 5% inspiration

 

Partners agree on common goals, commitment, trust and mutual support

“Creating opportunities, increasing economic vitality and enhancing quality of life.”