Clarify & Connect.

• What it is: Creating a vibrant space for the team to define its shared mission, values, and vision for success. This phase focuses on deep collective listening to articulate who they are as a collection of humans coming together to do their best work.

• Team Outcome: A clear, inspiring, and collectively owned mission statement that ignites shared purpose and early synergy.

Align & Structure.

• What it is: Translating the shared mission into actionable structures. This involves clarifying roles and responsibilities, establishing effective communication channels, and defining pathways for positive accountability in achieving collective goals. It's about building the intentional framework that supports effortless collaboration.

• Team Outcome: A cohesive operational blueprint where roles are clear, communication flows, and each member understands their vital contribution to the collective mission.

Launch & Lead.

• What it is: Bringing the blueprint to life, guiding the team through initial implementation, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and adaptation. This phase integrates principles of complex change and momentum, ensuring the team gains confidence in its new clarity, ensuring alignment of vision, skills, incentives, resources, and action plan.

• Team Outcome: A high-performing team actively working towards its mission, demonstrating early successes and a unified stride forward.

Equip & Evolve

• What it is: Equipping the team with practical tools and mindsets to sustain its clarity and high performance, even when inevitable tensions or challenges arise. This includes providing resources and tools to help manage tension and conflict, fostering healthy communication and proactive issue resolution.

• Team Outcome: A resilient, self-correcting team that embraces challenges as opportunities for growth, ensuring sustained mission impact and personal flourishing within the collective.

To ensure continuous growth and sustained impact throughout your team's journey, your Good Tension team coaching experience includes:

• Tailored Strategic Guidance: Direct, high-level support for leaders and team members between workshops and sessions, offering real-time insights and strategic adjustments as needed.

• Customized Team Resources: Access to bespoke exercises, communication protocols, and recommended readings designed to address your team's specific dynamics and goals.

• The Good Tension App Access: Seamless access to our dedicated app (https://coach.goodtension.net/), providing your team with a valuable executive coaching resource grounded in neuroscience and leadership, supporting individual and collective growth.

My 15+ years in school leadership provide an unparalleled foundation for this work. I've personally navigated the complex, high-stakes environments of diverse teams, from leadership teams and faculty groups to parent organizations, often under pressure and with limited resources.

This lived experience equips me with a profound understanding of real-world team dynamics, the nuances of nonverbal communication in groups, and how unaddressed collective tension can impact morale and productivity. This practical, "in the arena" perspective uniquely positions me to guide your team through its own complex currents with both empathy and pragmatic insight.