Build a Resilient Team Using Behavioral & Bee Science: A Framework for Leaders

2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

The world has shifted. As a leader, your work is to align, strategize, and reconnect. We use bee & behavioral science to help your hive hum.

We've coached teams & leaders at:

Amazon Web Services
New Relic
William and Harry
AT&T
The Walt Disney Company

Course overview

Amidst rapid change, you need to build a resilient & harmonious hive to succeed

Throughout history, humans have used ritual to cope with change, and nature is always adapting. As both the big picture and our personal experiences shift, we draw from deep, universal wisdom to help leaders align, strategize, and reconnect. When faced with the challenge of disorganization, uncertainty, and unpredictability, we learn from anthropology & hive science to return our teams to harmony.

Who is this course for

01

You are a leader who is ready to transform your team's culture to cope with change-and prepare for the future with alignment and resilience

02

You're invested in real, meaningful team connection, that motivates your team, not just buzzwords and stiff consulting frameworks

03

You have a passion for and/or interest in the ways the behavioral and natural sciences can reframe your approach to leadership

A Six-Phase System to Get Your Team and Hive Humming

Assess your hive for growth areas

Open up your workplace and take stock of what's humming, and what's not. Our 6-field hive assessment will focus your leadership, and your work in our course

Your Strength in the Swarm

What is your role in the hive, and how do those strengths set the tone for a harmonious system? Our prioritization workshop helps you identify key traits that matter to your team's success.

The Dance of Co-Creation

Collaboration and innovation require both independent work & rituals of alignment. Our science-driven approach to strategizing responsive, nor reactive work relationships leads to harmony and productivity.

Designing Your System

Many organizational systems demand stiff approaches that break when unexpected events or company pivots arise. Our toolkit guides you to set cycles of discovery, mission, strategy, productivity and alignment. You'll help your team to focus and deliver proactively.

Strategizing by Season

Here, we look at future-focused strategies of resilience. Our approach to challenge-centered strategy will keep your hive responsive and productive even as new challenges come over time.

Scaling with Harmony

The best sign of a healthy hive is its ability to grow and spawn new, neighboring hives. Now that your current team is in harmony, we look to bee science to understand how systems grow, scale, and stay aligned.

This course includes

3 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

34 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

6 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Dec 11—Dec 15

    Dec

    11

    Optional: Hive Mind Meetup: Online Discussion:

    Wed 12/116:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Part 1: Knowing your Hive (self-paced)

    5 items

    Part 2: Your Strength in the Swarm (self paced w/optional live session)

    6 items

    Part 3: The Dance of Co-Creation (self-paced)

    7 items

Week 2

Dec 16—Dec 21

    Dec

    18

    Optional: Hive Mind Meetup: Online Discussion:

    Wed 12/186:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Dec

    18

    Optional: Gift 1:1 Consultation on applying our lessons to your leadership

    Wed 12/187:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Part 4: Designing Your System

    6 items

    Part 5: Strategizing by Season

    8 items

    Part 6: Scaling with Harmony

    8 items

What people are saying

        They lead me and my team through a game-changing process based on Clifton Strengths and I could not be more excited to invest in the people behind the life-changing magic of wish granting. They are best-in-class and we are now able to lean into our individual strengths as well as team strengths and the culture shift has already got our hive buzzing
Laila Cook

Laila Cook

CEO Make-A-Wish Foundation,r title
        Coming out of this journey, the morale and focus of my team has definitely shifted and it has become contagious as other areas within my division are starting to take interest. For myself, it has given me insight into myself as a leader and how I can use my strengths to be a better leader and more present for my team and everyone around me.
Mykio Saracino

Mykio Saracino

Division Manager, State of Utah

Meet your instructor

Ali Maaxa, Ph.D.

Ali Maaxa, Ph.D.

AWS AI leader, SaaS Incubation Strategist, HCI Coach, Anthropology Professor

Dr. Ali Maaxa is a professor of anthropology and human computer interaction, a pioneering humanist in global AI incubators, and Mellon, Peacock, and Wilgus fellow.

Chad Seegmiller

Chad Seegmiller

Organizational Strategist, Productivity Coach, Finance & Banking Leader

Chad Seegmiller is an organizational consultant who leverages the power of collective intelligence in creating sustainable work ecosystems. 

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Course schedule

4-6 hours per week

  • Wednesdays

    10:00am - 11:00am PST

    An optional hour-long call to talk about our materials, the bees, your org, and to connect with us and your course-mates

  • When you have time

    We'll send a scheduling link

    Reach out to schedule an included half-hour consultation with one of us to apply our learnings to your leadership needs

  • Weekly projects

    4-6 hours per week

    Our two-week compressed course offers 6 asynchronous lessons at 3 per week. You'll have readings, a short recorded talk, targeted worksheets to cement your strategy, and opportunities to connect with us for our weekly course calls and/or an included 1:1 with us

Free resource

A free mini-lesson on scaling your team with harmony: a lesson from the behavioral & bee sciences

In this mini-lecture (a 5-minute version of our 30-minute lecture) for the final part of our 6-part series, we delve into how bees exemplify scaling harmony, focusing on the crucial role of the queen in leading the hive to expansion while maintaining harmony. We discuss the intricate process of swarming and leadership development within the hive, drawing parallels to human teamwork and global interconnectedness. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on creating harmonious, autonomous teams that can thrive even in the leader's absence.

Get our gift mini-lecture!

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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