Developing Teams In Organizations Changing The World.
You Can’t Expect Your People To Challenge The Status Quo - If They Don’t Know How To Challenge Each Other.
We unlock the feedback that drives teams forward. Turn tension into trust and co-workers into teammates. Get started today.
Groups Share Tasks. Teams Share Trust.
All groups have goals. Teams are groups with the confidence to set high standards - and the compassion to hold each member to them.
We Are What You Never Knew You Always Needed If…
You’ve Adopted Team-Based Goals…
To increase alignment, but the confusion and conflict felt when people come together make you long for the silos that once kept them apart.
You Attend Too Many Meetings…
About meetings that already happened. Afraid to share openly, people waste time and kill trust by offering their take on ‘what’s really happening’ when no one else is around.
You’ve Held Team-Building Events…
But fun is not translating to fundamentals. Could it be trust is not built by trying to work on your team - but getting them to try working as a team?
If the heart fights the lungs the body they share dies. So the heart never tries to be better than the lungs. It focuses on being the best heart it can be. It expects the lungs to do the same. Focused. Independent. Unique. Yet both seen as indispensable to one another. We build teams that share this mindset.
Are your people ready to go from cogs in an organization to parts of the same organism?
How We Forge Teams:
We replace coworkers with teammates, inspiring people to say ‘I get to go to work’ instead ‘I have to go to work’.
We do this by creating shared standards, helping people believe they can achieve them and ensuring those around themcareenough to tell them when they’re falling behind.
Forge high-trust teams by turning feedback into the gift it’s meant to be. Our three team-building facilitations, offer the tools & training that produce conscious collaboration.
1: Shared Standards.
We elevate teamwork by establishing clear, shared standards that everyone understands and embraces. No more guessing games or unspoken rules that lead to disappointment.
This not only boost performance, it forges trust and respect across the team. It's not just about having standards; it's about owning them together.
2: Thawing Beliefs:
Beliefs are truths supported by personal, subjective evidence. But to the belief-holder, they are truth. Challenging someone’s belief is therefore challenging their truth, leading to unwanted interpersonal conflict.
This isn't about changing minds but opening them. We teach teams how to find and present alternative evidence, allowing the belief-holder to challenge their own beliefs, taking teammates from potential combatants to sources of wisdom.
3: Conscious Care:
High status groups have high standards. Helping people challenge their limiting self-beliefs makes achieving those standards seem possible. But neither happens if we don’t care enough about each other to point out when someone has fallen below a standard.
We establish vulnerability as a core strength, ensuring people are open enough to take feedback - and brave enough to offer it.
Field-tested across dozens of purpose-driven organizations, our team-focused facilitations are engineered to dissolve barriers fostering unmatched cohesion and performance.
No More Explosive Arguments
Clear, shared standards transform personal disagreements into focused, collective progress.
No More Mixed Messages
Structured feedback mechanisms ensure that every team member knows where they stand and how to improve themselves AND others.
No More Conflict Avoidance
Direct, constructive conflict frameworks cut through the cycle of misunderstanding, making people confident enough to challenge each other.
No More Wasted Meetings
Empowering teams with the skills and confidence for healthy conflict, turns potential tensions into sources of innovation and growth.
The workshop identifies and sets clear, actionable benchmarks tailored to your team's needs. It ensures everyone understands and agrees on quality and collaboration standards. This alignment reduces confusion and focuses efforts on common goals. In short, most leaders and their teams confuse rules with standards. Rules are the policies or constraints. Standards are the reasons why those policies or constraints matter. We are experts at revealing "the why" behind the rule.
Yes, these sessions are designed to surface, challenge, and realign deeply held convictions with the team's objectives. By facilitating open discussions, we uncover and reshape beliefs hindering teamwork. This process aligns individual perspectives with collective goals. When people see themselves as members of a high functioning team, they have no reason to be defensive.
Conscious Care embeds empathy and mutual respect into daily interactions, creating a supportive team environment. This approach encourages open, honest communication, crucial for resolving conflicts and building trust. It transforms the team atmosphere into one where everyone feels valued and supported.
Absolutely. By establishing shared standards and addressing underlying beliefs, the program redirects focus from personal grievances to shared objectives. It equips leaders with tools to guide constructive, objective-focused conversations, turning potential conflicts into opportunities for innovation.
Our service is like helping friends play nicely together. We teach everyone how to share, understand each other, and solve problems without fighting. It makes working on projects together a lot more fun and easier.
You Will Really, Really, Really Not Like This Service If…
You’re Hoping To Eliminate Conflict…
Many leaders approach us looking for ways to remove conflict from their teams, believing harmony equals engagement. They fail to grasp that healthy conflict fuels innovation and is an essential component of building pride. Silent does not equal safe.
You’re Looking To Eliminate Turnover…
Our process is proven to establish psychological safety. What many fail to realize is the safety increases a team’s ability to challenge each other. Those misaligned with the team will stand out quickly, often leading them to self-select and leave.
You Believe Trust Must Be Earned…
The vast majority of leaders hold the false belief that trust must be earned. Trust requires one person to be vulnerable and the other person to become accountable to that vulnerability. When building trust across a team - it’s the leader that needs to first model vulnerability.
Human beings are social creatures. Cementing trust within a team is therefore one of the best things leaders can do to ensure their organization delivers on their vision of the future. Our remaining services act as essential supplements to this, ensuring that teamwork really does make the dream work.
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