Day 1: Team Identity and Collaboration Rules

Characteristics of High Performance

• Balance delivery results with relationship health
• Distinguish group activity from meaningful achievement
• Observe signs of maturity within teams
• Assess team conditions using explicit criteria

Team Identity and Belonging

• Frame purpose connecting members with beneficiaries
• Identify strengths distinguishing the team
• Choose stories expressing shared identity
• Craft a concise team belonging statement

Applied Collaboration Rules

• Convert shared values into explicit behaviors
• Define participation and decision-making approaches
• Agree responses to delay and disagreement
• Draft rules suitable for ongoing review

Day 2: Trust, Learning, and Cultural Accountability

Building Mutual Trust

• Honor commitments agreed across team members
• Request help before problems become severe
• Share information colleagues need for delivery
• Finish a mutual dependency exercise

Learning from Work

• Review events without searching for blame
• Extract lessons changing future professional practice
• Exchange knowledge across different experience levels
• Conduct an after-action task review

Accountability Within Culture

• Remind colleagues of standards without humiliation
• Address small deviations before they spread
• Recognize people protecting the team's rules
• Simulate responsible professional peer intervention

Day 3: Rituals and Applied Culture Charter

Daily Performance Rituals

• Choose routines clarifying shared team priorities
• Use learning pauses following completed delivery
• Organize periodic recognition of meaningful contribution
• Outline a culture-focused operating week

Protecting Culture Under Pressure

• Identify values that cannot be traded
• Notice recurrence of previous unhelpful behaviors
• Make decisions protecting collective team identity
• Analyze pressure placed on team culture

Team Charter Laboratory

• Complete challenges revealing actual team behavior
• Compare practice against proposed operating rules
• Revise the charter using participant observations
• Commit to a six-week culture experiment

• Team diagnostics connecting culture with everyday behavior
• Dependency and learning exercises revealing trust levels
• Accountability cases testing protection of shared standards
• A team challenge producing a charter and culture experiment