five foundations of a team
Discover the building blocks necessary to create a highly effective team. Whether you’re a new team looking to get off to a strong start or an established team striving for peak performance, our Foundations of a Team Workshop will introduce your team to the essential pillars of optimized teams.
map
We will collaborate closely with your key stakeholders to map out a tailored learning journey, ensuring it aligns with your objectives and desired outcomes. We’ll identify key topics, interactive activities, and participant engagement strategies, we can craft a comprehensive roadmap that fosters a high-end learning experience. We have a proven history of delivering workshops that inspire growth, development, and tangible results for your leaders.
journey
Our workshops are designed to take leaders on a transformational journey, equipping them with the skills and mindset needed to achieve exceptional results. Through interactive sessions, illuminating content, and personalized facilitation, participants undergo a profound shift in perspective and approach. By focusing on practical strategies for effective leadership, we empower leaders to face rapid change and deliver better outcomes.
thrive
Our leadership workshops equip leaders with the critical skills to excel in today's dynamic business environment; navigating challenges such as artificial intelligence integration, enhancing workforce engagement, and fostering innovation. Through targeted strategies and hands-on learning, participants gain the expertise to lead effectively amidst rapid change, ensuring your organization thrives in the face of evolving industry landscapes.
vulnerability-based trust
The essential foundation of any team is Vulnerability-based Trust. Our workshop provides an opportunity for peers to deepen connection and build trust. Moving beyond generic work relationships, we’ll help your team create meaningful and supportive relationships. Start being vulnerable and practicing authentic (including weaknesses, fears, mistakes)
Personal Histories Exercise: Get comfortable with vulnerability and develop mutual understanding. Our Meaningful Mingle exercise helps team members get to know one another on a deeper level. Building authentic connections will foster a culture of trust.
Behavioral Profiling: Have an objective tool & shared lingo for discussing personal strengths & weaknesses. Our True Colors, DiSC, or Five Behaviors assessment provides a great tool for greater understanding of individual working styles and growth areas for your team.
Build Trust: Spend time with your team building the foundation of trust. Generate agreements and alignment to create the perfect environment to get to the next level of vulnerability-based trust. Our Challenge Ropes Course or Action Steps programs can bring insights to life.
mastering productive conflict
Navigating conflict is often the most challenging part of working in a team environment. Peers must move past a desire for artificial harmony toward one for productive conflict. We’ll equip your team with the tools they’ll need to gracefully work through conflicts. High-performing teams must be able to engage in open, constructive and passionate debates on issues that affect organizational success.
Profiles & Norms: Defining your rules of engagement is critical to navigating conflict. Conflict most often stems from misunderstandings and misalignment. Reach for the Summit can clarify your ways of working and making decisions to guide you through challenges.
Encourage Conflict: Good leaders mine for conflict, uncover issues, and run effective meetings. Constructive conflict enables your team to seek the best possible outcomes. Healthy teams with high trust openly disagree without harming relationships.
Resolve Conflict: Avoided conflict is unresolved conflict. Teams that stagnate in artificial harmony or unhealthy conflicts fail to navigate obstacles and deliver results. Our Leading Through Conflict workshop explores your teams comfort with conflict and highlights growth areas.
build commitment
Building commitment is critical to achieving your teams goals. Generating buy-in and creating alignment through the establishment of guiding principles will help to drive toward success. Team members must be willing to fully commit to a course of action — even if it wasn’t their preferred option. We can help your team form agreements to keep your team aligned and moving toward the same results.
Buy-In: People will support a decision if they’re confident all options and perspectives have been considered. A well-defined decision making process fosters full team commitment. Our Reach for the Summit experience provides the perfect framework to create alignment.
Clarity: Remove assumptions & ambiguity - clarify commitments at meetings and have team members disseminate them personally. Ensure that all team members have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities to promote accountability and efficiency.
Create Agreements: Teams that take the time to establish Guiding Principles and concrete decision making processes experience greater commitment. We’ll take you from ideas to clearly defined agreements, so you can begin holding each other accountable.
embrace accountability
Teams can foster peer-to-peer accountability by encouraging open communication and setting clear expectations. This can be achieved through regular check-ins where team members hold each other responsible for their commitments and provide constructive feedback. Additionally, creating a culture that values transparency and trust can empower individuals to hold themselves and others accountable for their work.
Create a Culture of Constructive Feedback: Our Team Effectiveness Exercises allow team members to share key strengths and weaknesses of other members with regular reviews. Learn to enforce constructive feedback to keep your team moving forward and enhance performance.
Peer-to-peer Accountability: Teammates hold one another accountable to group decisions & standards. We’ll guide you on how to incorporate “lightning rounds” and other skills into weekly meetings to refine members’ top work priorities.
Embrace Accountability: Explore the benefits of peer-to-peer accountability as it drives focus on results. Our Organization Simulations offer the perfect opportunity to reflect on your team’s process, apply insights, and draw the connection between accountability and results.
achieve results
Don’t let ego or lack of clarity get in the way of reaching your goals. Mastering the Foundations of a Team will help propel your team to the results you are seeking. Concerted focus on a clear, measurable success metrics will eliminate vague goals and elevate team goals over self-interests. At the conclusion of our workshop, your leaders will stand prepared to deliver excellence even in the face of change and uncertainty.
Committed, Measurable Goals: Jointly pick 1-2 goal(s) that the team will rally behind, and commit to publicly. We’ll facilitate collaborative discussions to ensure alignment with the overall objectives, regular check-ins, and progress tracking further reinforce accountability
Set Clear Targets: Utilize a scoreboard featuring a primary quantifiable metric for tracking progress, complemented by a qualitative thematic goal. This dual approach ensures both the tangible results and the broader purpose are understood by all involved.
Leaders Lead: Leaders play a crucial role in overcoming these 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. They set the tone by getting raising uncomfortable topics and leading by example. Our Leadership Workshops positions leaders to guide your team to new heights.
