Do you want to create more TRUST with your TEAM?
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WE EMPOWER LEADERS AND TEAMS TO CREATE A CULTURE OF AUTHENTICITY, TRUST & BELONGING AT WORK
EXPLORE OUR TEAM WORKSHOPSHOW WELL DO THE MEMBERS OF YOUR TEAM REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER?
Too many employees interact with their coworkers based on the people they THINK THEY ARE – Not the people they TRULY are.
They think their colleague comes into work tired on Thursdays because they were out partying the night before.
If they asked why, they might find out that every Wednesday night, their co-worker has to drive 2 hours out of town to visit their dying mother in the hospital. If they knew this, they would move from seeing this person as selfish to selfless.
Your team members work next to each other every day, but do they REALLY know each other?
Google’s quest to build the perfect team uncovered that the #1 indicator of a high-performing, innovative team is the psychological safety and trust that develop largely through SOCIAL CONNECTIONS.
SOURCES:
- Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms
Louise C. Hawkley, Ph. D. corresponding author and John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D. - WORK AND THE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC – Reducing isolation at work is good for business.
Vivek Murthy, Harvard Business Review - America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research
Shawn Achor, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Andrew Reece, Alexi Robichaux - The Effects of Loneliness on Employees’ Commitment and Intention to Leave
Öznur Gülen, Ertosun Oya Erdil - The Painful Cycle of Employee Loneliness, and How It Hurts Companies
Sigal Barsade, Hakan Ozcelik - Why psychological safety matters and what to do about it
AMY EDMONDSON AND JEFF POLZER, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 06, 2016 - How Hiding Your True Self At Work Can Hurt Your Career
BY ELIZABETH SEGRAN, Fast Company - Emotional Drivers of Employee Engagement
Dale Carnegie
A strong and cohesive team can achieve anything if their voices are heard
OUR MISSION
WE'LL WORK WITH YOU TO CREATE AN AUTHENTIC WORKPLACE
#1
Connect your employees to their PURPOSE and find opportunities to build a SHARED MEANING and VALUES.
#2
Connect people to each other through fun activities and meaningful conversations.
#3
Create a safe space for authenticity and celebrating vulnerability within your company.
BENEFITS OF AN AUTHENTIC WORKPLACE
Attract high performers instead of losing your best employees to the competition
Effective team-building turns employees into purpose-driven evangelists for their company and coworkers. Use your strong corporate culture as a bargaining chip to recruit the best and brightest talent. When applying for jobs, millennial employees assess not only salary and benefits but also the working environment and camaraderie with peers.
Increase well-being and make your employees feel like they belong
Create a lasting feeling of team connection and togetherness to enhance day-to-day workplace harmony. Allow each team member to see others as fellow human beings instead of hierarchical positions, fostering genuine connection and affinity.
Increase trust between team members
Your employees should feel safe taking risks around their team members. This workshop helps create a community culture where employees feel confident that no one will embarrass or punish them for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea.
Better communication in your team
In the workshop, your team will learn to turn small talk into meaningful conversations that build trust and connection. Through various activities, they will also improve their listening skills.
Increase profits by building better teams
Soft skills matter. Empathy and emotional intelligence are the most important qualities in high-performing teams.
Sources:
- Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms
Louise C. Hawkley, Ph.D.corresponding author and John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D. - WORK AND THE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC – Reducing isolation at work is good for business.
Vivek Murthy, Harvard Business Review - America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research
Shawn Achor, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Andrew Reece, Alexi Robichaux - The Effects of Loneliness on Employees’ Commitment and Intention to Leave
Öznur Gülen, Ertosun Oya Erdil - The Painful Cycle of Employee Loneliness, and How It Hurts Companies
Sigal Barsade, Hakan Ozcelik - Why psychological safety matters and what to do about it
AMY EDMONDSON AND JEFF POLZER, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 06, 2016 - How Hiding Your True Self At Work Can Hurt Your Career
BY ELIZABETH SEGRAN, Fast Company - Emotional Drivers of Employee Engagement
Dale Carnegie
We connect people to people
instead of title to title
NO CHEESY TRUST FALLS
HOW WE CAN HELP
We’ll invite you to participate in fun, experiential group exercises that your team won’t groan at by creating a save space where your employees feel safe to take small risks and connect in a meaningful way.
This is not about finding your best friend or soul mate at work (although that could happen), but using your ability to connect with real human beings during real life human encounters on a daily basis, while still maintaining your professionalism.
Many growing companies have the unique challenges of having to produce high quality results in a short time. This requires maintaining a strong team cohesion. That’s not an easy task when working under deadline, uncertainty, and sometimes power or personality conflicts.
Bringing in an outside consultant or facilitator takes the pressure off your leadership team. When your employees feel valued and connected at work, they are more motivated, provide each other with emotional support to get unstuck and make better decisions since team members feel safe to share information.
We work with teams of 5 – 100 people and are happy to create a custom package that fits the needs of your company. If there is a specific challenge or theme that you want to focus on, then get in touch for a custom quote.
VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
Creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas should be the number one priority of a leader.
It’s one thing when they’re all in the same building 40 hours a week – but, what about when some, or all of your team members, work remotely, and rarely (if ever!) see each other?
Explore our unique workshops for remote teams.
IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
We will come to your office and run a truly unique and engaging workshop for your team that invites them to connect with themselves and each other in a meaningful way.
By design these workshops are tech-free and include free “cell phone sleeping bags” so participants can be present and less distracted.
DO YOU RUN CONFERENCES
OR LARGE EVENTS?
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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
JAN KECK (he / him)
Trainer | Facilitator | Experience Designer | TEDx Speaker
Jan Keck has been running public events and online experiences that build trust, empower people to share vulnerable stories and turn strangers into friends.
His “Connection Cards” have been used on every continent around the globe and helped turn over 70,000 shallow conversations into deep connections.
In the past few years, he ran over 30 workshops and trainings with over 700 trainers, facilitators, educators, team leaders learning the skills to create engaging, memorable, and transformative experiences on Zoom with 5-100 participants.
Recently, he relocated from Canada to Germany to be closer to family and is continuing to build a community of trainers, facilitators and creators that create MAGICAL HUMAN MOMENTS online.
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