A team with experienced leaders ‘who have been there done that’ was hitting a plateau in their performance, they were in need of a tune up. They wanted a highly engaging learning experience that took them out of their element was not childish or irrelevant to their current situation.

We designed a learning experience in partnership with the University of New Orleans school of music. Creating a private and custom performance by the Universities Jazz ensemble to allow the leadership team to see ‘behind the curtain’ learning how the ensemble works as a team and has structure in a performance that is ‘messy’. This experience was supported by evidence-based academic research on teams. Fruitful learning dialogue was facilitated to bridge the experience to the business context/situations.

Team dynamics were depersonalized by taking an outside example to examine how the team was functioning. This external example to learn with and from reduced insecurity in each leader creating a psychologically safe environment and increased capacity for change and contributed to a 10th year of surpassing their goals.

"The team coaching session you did on ‘Yes to the Mess’ may be the highlight of workshops I have done in 30 years!"

-Senior Pharma Sales & Marketing Executive

A global pharma company with limited cross-functional collaboration needed to bring Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) together on a high profile, new product planning team for product planning activities. Our task was to design a virtual global workshop experience for the divisional SMEs, so that the team could develop a narrative to describe the patient’s experience and integrate the patient perspective in critical product decision moments.

• Conducted data gathering sessions with team members to inform the work space design and dialogue
• Engaged the SMEs in a variety of interactive Collective Navigation™ conversations to create the strategic plan
• Leveraged new technology (VR/web based synchronous collaboration tools) to bridge the virtual workspace gap connecting everyone in the same virtual workroom.

As a result of our work a shared view of the strategy was formed, critical thinking and collaborative discussion occurred across divisions. Diverse and equal involvement was facilitated for this global team with cultural practices and preferences intentionally considered throughout the meeting design.

A national team of healthcare educators had experienced 100% team member turnover (voluntary and involuntary) in the last year and were looking to re-establish the way that they worked together. CEO and CHRO wanted to understand what was going on in the team environment that was disrupting the team experience even after toxic members of the team had left and efforts were made internally but didn’t seem to resolve the issue.

• Culture inquiry research interviews with team members 1:1 to understand the individual experiences members are having and the culture and customs of the micro culture that was keeping the negative employee experience in place
• Partner with HR and executive team members to convey the high level story of the team experience to leadership and decide on an approach to support team through a reset
• Help the team re-establish ways of working and improve the quality of connection between members with two of our signature workshops Positive Core & Attunement 1

Realizing the power of high quality connections, the VP noted that at the start of the day of the second workshop, the team was still focused on not having enough time given the quantity of work and deadline expectations and as they connected to each other and built the skills for teaming and connection the conversation shifted to the need to better understand each other and themselves in order to work more efficiently. This realization helped the team find their rhythm and understand when they were and were not attuned to each other. The team’s take away was that they can and will focus on making their own moments for connection and structure self-led team development workshops to continue their growth.

Two data governance teams had merged in a recent organization redesign under one leader. That leader who had been leading one of the teams knew that establishing healthy team dynamics even before the work and processes of the team were determined was critical to their success.

• Digital data collection to understand the individual experiences members are having and the culture and customs of the micro culture that was keeping the negative employee experience in place
• Help the team re-establish ways of working and improve the quality of connection between members with our signature Attunement 1 workshop
• Brought awareness to team dynamics occurring in meetings and improved habits of meeting cadence, flow and structure

“Attune Collective facilitated an amazing 2 days with our group leaders. She was able to intuitively get to the heart of challenges facing the team, internally and externally, and help us create practical methods to face these that we have been employing months after the sessions.

Our L&D observers were impressed with the quality of the content and delivery. Psychological safety has become a key topic in the broader organization and with the work Angie facilitated we have been able to pilot and lead the way in the necessary conversations.

Angie walked our newly formed leadership team through a number of deep thinking, discursive and practical exercises that have stuck with the team long after the fact. Taking the time to invest in the team this way has been foundational to building strong and cohesive ways of working.”

-VP of Data Information & Governance