(1) Reflect

Reflection is perhaps one of the most important leadership traits. In the Reflect phase, participants are asked to develop and/or share who they are.



Through being vulnerable, participants share what attributes make them who they are, what is working, and what is not working.



They share their personal intentions and their challenges with the explicit assumption, that at the end of the day building a high-performance team requires a commitment for all participants to make each other the best and most effective version of themselves.



It is through creating the participants life story, sharing strengths and weaknesses, and asking for help that participants get in the game of asking for help, the most important skillset in building a collaborative team.

(2) Challenge

In the Challenge phase participants are immersed in engaging activities that uncover their blind spots. In this phase, all participants are given permission to celebrate their blind spots as they uncover new ways to collaborate to achieve bigger objectives. It is these “AHA” moments where the possibility of greater effectiveness surfaces. In the Challenge Phase participants are asked to confront what is not working and uncover ways to work more effectively as a team.

(3) Do

It is in the Do Phase participants improvise, take on new practices, refine their behaviors with new insight, and see how taking actions that are uncomfortable can lead to greater outcomes.



The Do phase is about practice. In our programs, we provide contextual based simulations for learners to “do.” The beautiful part of a simulation is that the company is not at stake, the risks of doing something “wrong” does not exist. The participants take on actions together so that they can give each other feedback on how to effectively collaborate when it really does matter.



Then the leaders have the opportunity to take the DO Phase outside the classroom in between session and practice the skills in their workplace.