Want an offsite in 2024 for your team? Or want to work on adapting your team culture? Schedule a call.

We invite you to join our program if you're interested in:

Exploring innovative approaches to enhance your team's workflow, spanning from the hiring process to project delivery.
Cultivating a collaborative and communicative culture that naturally fosters teamwork.
Establishing an environment where every team member is encouraged and supported to actively participate and contribute innovative ideas.

We look forward to having you on board for this transformative program!

Who Will Benefit?

Team leads and managers in small to medium sized companies with 5-25 members per team working in any location who want to remove work silos and create more inclusive, collaborative environments but may be struggling with how to change culture and want to get unstuck.

OR

Bring your entire team together for team building to work on higher performance and collaboration through new ways of working.

Not sure if this is right for you?

Schedule a FREE Strategy Call with our CEO, Indra A. Books, to talk through how we may help.

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Learning Objectives:

By expanding and refining these learning objectives, participants will have a more comprehensive and meaningful learning experience that addresses the key aspects of developing effective, collaborative teams.

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Identify the challenges with ensuring there is space for everyone to "show up" to the team:

Recognize and understand the barriers that hinder full participation and engagement of team members, such as unconscious bias, power dynamics, or communication styles.
Explore strategies and techniques to create an inclusive and equitable environment where every team member feels valued, heard, and encouraged to contribute their unique perspectives and talents.

Dig deep into what inclusivity means and the impacts of not creating a diverse and inclusive culture:

Gain a comprehensive understanding of diversity, encompassing not only visible aspects but also diverse experiences, backgrounds, and cognitive styles.
Examine the tangible and intangible benefits of fostering diversity and inclusion within teams, including enhanced creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
Recognize the potential consequences of a lack of diversity and inclusivity, such as limited perspectives, decreased morale, and missed opportunities for growth and development.

Develop a plan for hiring and onboarding new teams in a different, more agile way:

Explore innovative approaches to attract and select diverse talent, ensuring that hiring processes are inclusive, equitable, and focused on identifying candidates with the necessary skills and potential for growth.
Design an agile onboarding process that accelerates integration, fosters connections, and sets new team members up for success from day one.

Understand psychological safety and ways to create safe environments or destabilize them:

Gain a deep understanding of psychological safety and its crucial role in enabling open communication, risk-taking, and innovation within teams.
Identify behaviors and practices that promote psychological safety, such as active listening, empathy, trust-building, and constructive feedback.
Recognize potential factors that can undermine psychological safety and learn strategies to address and mitigate them effectively.

Learn to set the stage so that each interaction brings value to the team:

Acquire facilitation skills to create purposeful and productive team interactions, ensuring that meetings, discussions, and collaborations are focused, engaging, and outcome-driven.
Explore techniques for agenda-setting, establishing clear goals, managing time effectively, and fostering active participation and contribution from all team members.

Identify ways to create team bonds beyond daily tasks:

Discover strategies to foster a sense of belonging, camaraderie, and trust within teams, even beyond the scope of work-related activities.
Explore team-building exercises, social events, and initiatives that promote connection, collaboration, and a supportive team culture.

Create a toolkit of facilitation and communication techniques:

Develop a repertoire of effective facilitation techniques to guide discussions, decision-making processes, and problem-solving sessions.
Enhance communication skills, including active listening, clear and concise articulation, empathy, and conflict resolution techniques, to foster understanding and collaboration within teams.

Review and practice liberating structures for communication inclusivity:

Familiarize yourself with a variety of liberating structures, such as Open Space, World Café, or Appreciative Inquiry, that promote inclusivity, active participation, and collective intelligence in team communication and decision-making processes.
Gain hands-on experience in applying and adapting these liberating structures to different team scenarios and objectives.

Develop a long-range plan with accountability:

Design a comprehensive and actionable plan that outlines the steps, milestones, and resources required to foster a culture of collaboration, diversity, and inclusion within teams.
Establish clear accountability measures to track progress, evaluate the effectiveness of implemented initiatives, and make necessary adjustments to achieve long-term goals.

Meet Your Coaches:

Photo of Indra Books Indra A. Books

With 25 years of experience, Indra has a passion for working with organizations to effect meaningful, goal-oriented change resulting in high-performing and inclusive team culture. Indra is regularly invited to lead workshops and talks, to shift the focus from process to culture, people, and mindset; creating change that is focused on long-term investments.

Photo of Kofi Blankson Kofi Blankson

Kofi is a Certified Scrum Master and Agile Leader as well a s digital technology enthusiast with 12 years experience in the Financial Services industry. His expertise spans Operations, Service Experiences and Reengineering, Management Information Systems, and Program and Change Management. He is dedicated to creating new ways of working in Ghana.