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Specialized Team Development Program

Team CO-Labs™

Where teams learn, collaborate and perform.

From work groups to high-performing teams. Team CO-Labs™ combines diagnosis, strengths, leadership, emotional intelligence, collaboration and practical application to help teams identify the behaviours limiting their performance and develop new ways of working together.

This is not traditional team building. It is a structured development process that combines assessment, learning, application and measurement.

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Team CO-Labs kit: box with the leader and team diagnostics, the insight report on a tablet, the development plan and the session guide

The challenge

Is your team experiencing any of this?

  • Communication problems
  • Silos between departments or functions
  • Recurring conflict
  • A lack of trust
  • Low commitment
  • Difficulty giving or receiving feedback
  • A lack of accountability
  • Resistance to change
  • Little collaboration
  • Unclear roles or expectations
  • Leaders who need to grow their capacity to lead teams
  • Technically capable teams that are not reaching their potential

Team CO-Labs™ helps organizations identify what is getting in the way of team performance, and provides a structured development process to address it.

The concept

What is Team CO-Labs™?

The name puts together the two ideas the program is built on.

CO — Collaboration

Developing teams able to communicate, cooperate, take shared responsibility and work towards common objectives.

Labs — Learning laboratories

Each session works as a practical laboratory: participants analyse their own reality, try out tools, practise new behaviours and commit to applying them at work.

The process

How it works

Team CO-Labs™ is a journey, not an isolated event.

  1. 1

    Discovery & Needs Assessment

    An initial conversation with leadership to understand the team's needs, challenges and objectives.

  2. 2

    Team & Leadership Assessments

    Evaluating strengths, leadership, engagement and the specific needs of the team.

  3. 3

    Leadership Alignment

    Working with the leader to set priorities and prepare the intervention.

  4. 4

    Learning Experiences

    Learning laboratories focused on the capabilities this particular team needs to develop.

  5. 5

    Application to the Workplace

    Tools, conversations and commitments that carry the learning into daily work.

  6. 6

    Measurement & Follow-Up

    Follow-up to identify progress, behavioural change and the next development priorities.

Content

Areas we can work on

Depending on what the diagnosis reveals, the program can bring in modules on:

  • Strengths-based teams
  • Self-leadership
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Psychological safety and trust
  • Assertive communication
  • Collaboration
  • Feedback and accountability
  • Conflict management
  • Coaching conversations
  • Employee engagement
  • Adaptability and change
  • Multigenerational teams
  • Team performance
  • Wellbeing and sustainable performance

This is not a fixed package of workshops. The diagnosis is what sets each team's development priorities.

Methodologies

What we bring to the process

CliftonStrengths®

Gallup's strengths-based approach helps identify individual talents and understand how they can contribute to collective performance.

Prosci® Change Management

Structured change management principles and the ADKAR® model, for teams facing transformation, new initiatives or resistance to change.

Team CO-Labs™ is a methodology of Health 4 Balance. Gallup®, CliftonStrengths®, Prosci® and ADKAR® are third-party methodologies and credentials that can be integrated into the process; they neither own nor endorse this program.

Differentiators

Why Team CO-Labs™

Diagnostic-driven

We do not start by assuming what the team needs. First we identify its development opportunities.

Strengths-based

We help people understand what they naturally contribute to the team, and how to make the most of it.

Experiential

Participants practise, discuss, analyse and apply. It is not a presentation.

Business focused

Team development is connected to the organization's needs and results.

Customized

Every intervention answers the particular reality of that team.

Measurable

The process builds in diagnosis, commitments, follow-up and measurement.

Sustainable

The goal is not a day of enthusiasm, but behaviours that hold once the intervention is over.

Audience

Designed for

  • Leadership teams
  • Management teams
  • Supervisors
  • Cross-functional teams
  • Department teams
  • Project teams
  • Teams going through organizational change
  • Newly formed teams
  • Established teams seeking higher performance

Let’s talk about your team

Every team is different. Let’s identify where yours is today, where it needs to go, and what development strategy can close the gap.

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