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Strategies for Fostering a Positive Team Culture

Amazon Web Services

Salesforce

Amazon

VMware

SugarCRM

Kimberly Douglass

Ex-AWS technical trainer. Over 10k employees & leaders trained. Sales & cybersecurity background. Passionate about leadership & onboarding.

Understand critical elements of positive team culture and its impact on performance and collaboration.

How team culture impacts individual and org performance

Learn strategies for building trust, enhancing communication, and fostering openness within teams.

Communication tools that builds and repairs trust

Discover effective methods to promote teamwork, synergy, and cross-functional cooperation.

Techniques to foster collaboration and innovation

Explore creative ways to acknowledge achievements and cultivate a culture of appreciation and recognition.

Ways to celebrate the success of individuals and the team

We’ve all been in working environments that lack purpose, focus on the wrong issue(s), fail to address ingrained group dynamics, or become hijacked by conflict and difficult personalities. By the end of this two-week, live, online course, you’ll be able to contribute to or lead a working environment that: - Cultivates shared meaning around the content of their work.- Makes productive use of difference and conflict.- Focuses on the actual/real challenge at hand — both internally and externally.- Makes meaningful progress toward achieving their goals.- Offers a sense of belonging to all team members.&nbsp;The Facilitation Leadership Lab is a live, online, cohort-based course for rising and established leaders who want to sharpen their facilitation skills in order to unlock their organization’s potential, accelerate their career path, or grow their consulting practice. You’ll practice these skills and frameworks in a simulated, lab-like environment, and receive personalized feedback, 1:1 coaching, and access to a peer-learning community. Facilitating organizational change isn't magic -- you can learn the skills that will help you turn stuck organizations into thriving ones, and accelerate your career. Enroll today!

🔮 Facilitating organizational change might seem like magic — it’s not.

You’ll learn techniques and frameworks for everything that needs to take place before the gathering: building trusted relationships between the facilitator and participants, identifying the core group challenge, determining the purpose and ideal outcome(s) of the gathering, and setting the agenda.

Session 1: Setting the agenda

You’ll learn the skills — active listening, reframing and reflecting, addressing conflict, generating movement, and closing — to hold the space necessary for a successful gathering.&nbsp;

Session 2: Holding the space

You’ll cultivate the interpersonal practices — building an awareness of one’s intersectional identity and personal conflict orientation — as well as key skills like managing challenging principals to navigate complex facilitations and difficult conversations.&nbsp;

Session 3: Building understanding across difference

This session takes us from facilitating a gathering in the room to solving a problem in the world. You’ll learn skills and frameworks for diagnosing the present problem, building utopias and dystopias, and piloting strategies to help organizations think beyond their current reality and build a collective vision for the future.

Session 4: Visioning & world-building

✏️  Course syllabus

Session 1: Saturday, February 1, 12:00 - 4:00 pm ESTSession 2: Sunday, February 2, 12:00 - 4:00 pm ESTSession 3: Saturday, February 8, 12:00 - 4:00 pm ESTSession 4: Sunday, February 9, 12:00 - 4:00 pm EST

February 1 - 9 

In between the two weekends, participants will be given ‘homework’ that they can use to practice the skills they’re learning with course participants and deepen their understanding of the frameworks.

‘Homework’

📅 Course schedule

Rising or established leaders who want to level up their facilitation skills and transform their organization

Coaches and consultants who want to grow their practice with proven facilitation tools and frameworks.

Sick of bad processes preventing your organization or community from achieving its goals? This is for you!

🤔 Who is this course for? 

What you’ll get out of this course

You’ll learn proven facilitation tools and key concepts like agenda setting, active listening, relational anchoring, reframing and reflecting, conflict de-escalation, managing challenging principals, diagnosing the present adaptive challenge, and identifying ideal outcomes.

Actionable facilitation tools and frameworks.

A successful facilitation requires more than a rubric — it is an embodied craft that requires practice in dynamic contexts. You’ll practice these tools and frameworks in a simulated, lab-like environment, and receive personalized feedback, and 1:1 coaching.

Improve your craft through guided practice, peer learning, and personalized feedback. 

Facilitating change in organizations is hard, often lonely work. Leaders need peers to learn from and with. This course is your passport to a thriving peer-learning community and privileged access and discounts to future offerings from the instructors.&nbsp;

Join the Facilitation Leadership Lab peer-learning community.

You'll have the opportunity to engage 1:1 with the instructors in a free coaching session after the workshop is complete.

1:1 Coaching

Accelerate your career, unlock your organization’s potential, and build better worlds with proven facilitation skills. 

Kate Krontiris

Charley Johnson

Cohort 2

Cohort 4

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 &amp; hive science to return our teams to harmony.

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


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First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

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

Wednesdays


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

When you have time


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

Weekly projects

Course schedule

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

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

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

Who is this course for

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


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

Assess your hive for growth areas

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.

Your Strength in the Swarm


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

The Dance of Co-Creation


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.

Designing Your System


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.

Strategizing by Season


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.

Scaling with Harmony


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.


Ali Maaxa, Ph.D.

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

Chad Seegmiller

Organizational Strategist, Productivity Coach, Finance & Banking Leader

December 2024

January 2025

Managing a team isn’t just about getting work done—it’s about creating an environment where people thrive, collaborate, and deliver exceptional results. Whether you’re a new manager eager to start strong or an experienced manager seeking fresh, practical tools, this course will transform the way you lead. Does this sound familiar? You’ve been managing your team for a while, but things aren’t running as smoothly as you’d like. Expectations are unclear, feedback feels awkward, and motivation isn’t where it should be. You’re doing your best, but you feel stuck—unsure how to build the kind of team environment where everyone performs at their best. Now imagine if you could:✅ Set crystal-clear expectations that align your team and eliminate confusion.✅ Deliver feedback that inspires growth while building trust and motivation.✅ Create a thriving, psychologically safe team environment where collaboration flourishes.✅ Empower high performers to grow and address underperformance with confidence. This is what you’ll walk away with: frameworks from the world's elite firms, proven strategies, and tried-and-tested tools that work. After training over 10,000 managers at leading companies—both online and in-person—I’m now bringing my expertise to Maven to help you unlock your potential as a manager. This course isn’t about vague theories or cookie-cutter advice. It’s a high-paced, practical, and interactive experience designed to give you real-world skills you can apply immediately. Together, we’ll tackle the challenges of managing in today’s fast-paced world, using proven methods and modern tools like GenAI to simplify and enhance your approach.

Unlock the Secrets to Managing High-Impact Teams

<ul><li>Meet fellow participants, align on learning goals and review the course agenda</li><li>Optional session to set the tone and prepare for the course weekend</li></ul>

Friday February 7th (Optional)

<ul><li>Build trust and psychological safety to create a thriving team environment.</li><li>Understand the science of motivation to know what drives your team.</li><li>Adapt your management style with situational leadership.</li><li>Foster collaboration and team cohesion </li></ul>

Saturday February 8th

<ul><li>Set clear expectations that align team efforts and drive accountability.</li><li>Deliver feedback that inspires behavior change and boosts morale.</li><li>Address underperformance with actionable improvement plans.</li><li>Empower high performers with meaningful opportunities for growth.</li></ul>

Sunday February 9th

These high-paced, immersive modules are packed with valuable insights, interactive activities and collaborative discussions. Together, we'll explore proven frameworks and practical approaches, sharing experiences in a safe environment to help you apply tools in your own team.

You’re a new manager eager to build a high-performing team and want tools to lead with clarity, trust, and confidence.

You’ve been managing for years without formal training and are ready to learn proven methods to motivate, align, and inspire your team.

You’re stepping into a larger role or managing a more complex team and need strategies to scale trust, motivation, and performance.

This course is for you if...

Learn to set clear expectations that are reinforced regularly to align your team’s efforts, eliminate confusion, and improve accountability.

Master a straightforward feedback approach that’s actionable, drives behavior change, and leaves your team feeling valued and recognized.

Discover how trust and psychological safety work together to foster an environment where people thrive, collaborate, and deliver results

Understand the science of motivation to protect and sustain your team’s drive by avoiding common mistakes that kill enthusiasm.

Learn the skills used by the world’s top firms to set expectations, build trust, deliver feedback, and motivate your team to thrive.


Anna J Breimer Bharati

Leadership Expert | ex-McKinsey Associate Partner | 10k+ leaders trained

The Impact Cohort

(Sep 10-Oct 10 2025)The core function of leadership is to inspire cooperation through shared purpose and goals. Belonging is the key to enabling cooperation at scale—an essential competitive advantage for any group. In this course, you’ll discover that belonging isn’t just a feeling; it has a structure. When intentionally cultivated and sustained, it leads to remarkable outcomes—both in the “soft” dimensions of trust and honesty at work and in measurable improvements in efficiency, productivity, and creativity. We belong not only to each other but also to the future we build together. This is the fifth of six fluencies in the Lead Like a Futurist program:Leading Self: Reinvention and Purpose (TBD – join the waitlist at leadlikeafuturist.com)Leading Strategy: Foresight and Innovation (Spring 2025)Leading Culture: Belonging and Wisdom (Fall 2025)Learn more at leadlikeafuturist.com.___________________________________DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE!Register for two or more fluencies within a 24-hour period and save big. Indicate your interest on the application to receive your discount code: - Two Fluencies: $100 off each course- Three Fluencies: $125 off each course- Four Fluencies: $150 off each course That's 4 for the price of 3! BONUS:Registering for two or more fluencies grants you access to continued Workroom coaching sessions between courses. This high-value opportunity is exclusively available to those who make this commitment. CERTIFICATION:Students who complete the full Lead Like a Futurist six-fluency leadership program will be awarded a certificate that verifies their achievement and training. This certificate is suitable for framing, adding to your resume, and showcasing on your LinkedIn profile to highlight your leadership development.

The Future is Where We Belong

<ul><li>Prework Videos and Readings:&nbsp;Access anytime!</li><li>Recorded Live Sessions:&nbsp;Can’t make it live? Catch up with session recordings.</li><li>Workroom Time on Fridays:&nbsp;A time to dive deeper into the material.</li><li>1:1 Support Calls:&nbsp;Personalized guidance to keep you aligned and moving forward.</li></ul>

If your schedule blows up, we've got you

There are five 90-min live sessions that occur on Wednesdays at 9am CST. This time is suited to a variety of timezones, making it friendly to students across the Americas and Europe.These are the people you've been waiting to meet: thoughtful and passionate—just like you!

A 5-part series

<ul><li>The Prework will generally be 30 minutes of time or less.</li><li>Expect Homework to take 30-60 minutes each week.</li></ul>Additionally, we offer two Workrooms (Optional) for group coaching and project work on Fridays, 9am and 3pm

Prework and Homework

Let the lessons take root with real-life coaching between course, where you'll tackle pressures, politics, and decisions in a supportive community.Available for those registered in 2+ fluencies in 2025.

The Workroom Continues

This course is built for busy professionals

You care deeply about the people in your work world and want to help them thrive.

You’re driven to address low trust and engagement in your environment.

You’re committed to fostering connection, even amid the challenges of hybrid work, reorgs, and constant change.

<ul><li>Feel the profound shift that comes from recognizing that we already—and always—belong to this world, this time, and this life on a grand scale.</li><li>Embody this awareness as you cultivate a deep sense of belonging within yourself, becoming a source of connection that radiates to other</li></ul>

Discover the Experience of One

<ul><li>Learn to recognize and reflect signals of safety, vulnerability, trust, and joy in those around you.</li><li>Celebrate the ease of cooperation supported by mutual respect and appropriate boundaries.</li></ul>

Harness the Power of Mutuality

<ul><li>Strengthen your voice—and guide group direction—with clear, direct communication.</li><li>Honor individual contributions while fostering collective success.</li></ul>

Use Belonging Cues to Ignite Focus and Enthusiasm

<ul><li>Use the structure of the Gates of Belonging to guide inclusive practices in all activities.</li><li>Trust that every person’s unique style and energy has a place—including your own.</li></ul>

Belonging Doesn’t Depend on Extroverts

Belonging creates order from chaos—at every level, from individual to organization to society. Our growth and evolution depend on it.

Lightning Lessons

Strategies for Fostering a Positive Team Culture