Team Building
Facilitated work to fix a specific pattern in how your team operates together - not a one-off offsite, but a diagnosis-to-resolution engagement that ends when the dysfunction is actually gone.
Who This Is For
Teams having problems working with each other. If your retros keep naming the same issue and nothing changes, this is the engagement built for that.
Signs You Need This
- People hit their individual commitments, but the team's overall increment still doesn't ship - everyone's working in parallel, not together
- Work and knowledge are siloed by person
- The same friction shows up in retro after retro
- Standups are status reports and not coordination between peers
- Decisions keep getting made outside the team
- Team members don't trust each other's judgment, or don't feel safe pushing back
Our Approach
Discovery & Observation
I sit in on your ceremonies, review your flow data, and talk to team members one-on-one before proposing anything.
Team Effectiveness Diagnostic
I hand the findings back to the team through a structured health-check, so the team owns the diagnosis instead of just receiving my opinion.
Facilitated Working Sessions
Structured sessions built around specific friction points.
Practice-in-the-Work Coaching
I embed in your actual ceremonies to reinforce the new behaviors while they're still fragile.
What Changes
- A team working agreement written by the team
- Ownership and commitment shift from individuals to the team
- Retro action items close
- The team can run its own hard conversations
Questions
Isn't this just trust-fall stuff - will it actually change how we deliver?
No trust falls. Every session is built from what I observe in your actual ceremonies and flow data.
Do you need to interview the whole team individually? That feels invasive.
Yes, and I understand the hesitation. I do it because group settings suppress exactly the friction I need to hear about — people won't tell you in a room what they'll tell you one-on-one. What you say stays out of the report by name; what goes back to the team is patterns, not attributions.