Transform Ordinary Teams Into Extraordinary Teams Through Effective Team Leadership
Good leadership never goes out of style. But with AI transforming industries at unprecedented speed, great team leadership is no longer optional, it’s essential.
Your talented team is likely operating below its full potential. Ideas go unshared. Conflicts simmer beneath the surface. Innovation stalls. People work in isolation rather than true collaboration.
The result: Missed opportunities, declining morale, and new AI-powered competitors who outpace you. Not because they have better people or technology, but because they’ve built empowered teams that successfully execute even under competitive pressure and respond faster than traditional hierarchical teams.
Our 2-day Building High-Performing Teams workshop equips leaders with the practical tools and proven strategies to build, sustain, and lead high-performing teams that consistently deliver results in rapidly changing environments.
The High Performing Teams Canvas: Your Visual Blueprint for Team Excellence
The workshop is built around a powerful visual framework using the High Performing Teams Canvas and team performance models, like Tuckman and Drexler/Sibbet. The canvas is an intuitive, visual tool that helps you see and address all seven critical elements of extraordinary team performance:
- Goals & Alignment: Create alignment through shared purpose and clear objectives that unite your team
- Focus & Boundaries: Establish limits to sharpen focus and drive productivity and innovation
- Skills & Diversity: Build teams with complementary skills, diverse perspectives, and mutual accountability
- Stability & Trust: Foster psychological safety, effective communication, and sustainable team relationships
- Empowerment & Accountability: Clarify decision rights and expand team autonomy for faster execution
- Foundation & Support: Ensure teams have the information, infrastructure, education, environment, and rewards needed for peak performance
- Growth & Evolution: Implement ongoing improvement processes for sustained team development and growth
Why This Team Building Workshop Works
Unlike abstract leadership theories or traditional seminars, this intensive leadership training program delivers practical techniques you can apply immediately to improve each crucial element of team performance. Seeing all elements simultaneously via the canvas helps you identify patterns, connections, and opportunities that might otherwise remain hidden in linear approaches to team development.
Whether you’re struggling with team dysfunction, leading a high-potential group that’s not yet reaching its capabilities, or building a new team from the ground up, you’ll leave with a customized canvas that serves as a visual roadmap for your team’s assessment and development journey.
It’s time to unlock your team’s hidden potential!
Leadership Capabilities You’ll Develop
Discover Essential Team Leadership Skills for Today’s Managers:
- Master Team Dynamics & Development Models: Apply insights about leadership styles and proven frameworks like Tuckman and Drexler/Sibbet to transform how your team works together
- Build Psychological Safety & Effective Communication: Create an environment where team members take risks, share ideas openly, and contribute their best thinking
- Minimize Conflict & Improve Team Relations: Master techniques to reduce friction, transform disagreements into productive discussions, and strengthen team cohesion
- Harness Team Diversity & Enable Cross-Functional Success: Help your team thrive by mapping everyone’s unique skills and strengths and implementing structured approaches to eliminate silos
- Optimize Decision-Making & Authority: Implement delegation frameworks that clarify decision ownership, eliminate bottlenecks, and accelerate delivery
- Drive Accountability & Commitment: Develop a culture of mutual responsibility without micromanagement, where team members honor commitments and take initiative to deliver results
Tangible Team Building Tools You’ll Implement Immediately
Walk Away with These Practical Leadership Resources That Create Real Team Performance Results:
- Comprehensive Assessment & Development Roadmap: A detailed evaluation of your team across all performance dimensions, paired with a strategic plan addressing your specific challenges and analysis of your leadership strengths
- Communication & Conflict Resolution System: A structured approach to improve information flow, along with proven strategies to turn team conflicts into productive outcomes and strengthen relationships
- Team Alignment & Trust-Building Toolkit: Frameworks to create shared purpose and clear direction, combined with specific activities to build psychological safety and strengthen team cohesion
- Decision Authority Framework: Clear guidelines for who makes which decisions and how, enabling faster execution while developing mutual responsibility without micromanagement
- Skills Analysis Tools: Methods to identify and leverage team member capabilities based on the Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition, helping you maximize each person’s contribution
- Performance Measurement & Progress Tracking: Systems to monitor team improvement, celebrate meaningful wins, and maintain momentum via a structured 30/60/90 day implementation timeline
Who Benefits From Team Performance Training
Solve Your Most Challenging Team Leadership Issues
Are you facing any of these leadership challenges?
- Unclear direction amid rapid AI innovations is causing team confusion and misalignment
- Communication breakdowns that lead to costly mistakes and re-work
- Team conflicts that drain energy and productivity
- Silos and barriers between team members or departments
- Resistance to change when implementing new AI initiatives or adopting new technologies
- Difficulty motivating team members to deliver their best work
- High turnover of talented team members
This leadership development workshop is specifically designed for professionals who are ready to overcome these challenges through our proven approach to effective team leadership.
Ideal Participants for Team Leadership Development
The team building workshop is designed for:
- Team Leaders & Managers responsible for team performance and outcomes
- Emerging Leaders preparing for increased team management responsibilities
- Project & Product Managers balancing timeline pressures with team health
- Functional Managers transitioning from individual contribution to team leadership
- Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches looking to enhance team facilitation skills
Workshop Curriculum: Your Roadmap to Team Leadership Excellence
The Building High Performing Teams workshop isn’t just a collection of theories, it’s part of a comprehensive leadership development program designed to transform how you lead. Through our highly interactive and collaborative approach, you’ll experience a blend of team building exercises, simulations, role-playing, videos, and dynamic discussions that reinforce these leadership concepts.
Detailed 2-Day Curriculum
Day 1: Foundations of Team Excellence
Morning: Understanding Team Dynamics & Assessment
- Attributes of High-Performing Teams: Identify the 12 essential characteristics that distinguish exceptional teams
- High Performing Teams Canvas Overview: Understand the seven dimensions system
- Comprehensive Assessment: Evaluate both team performance and leadership styles to establish your baseline
- Individual & Team Development: Learn the critical relationship between personal growth and team evolution based on the Shu Ha Ri model
Afternoon: Building Clarity, Purpose & Capability
- Goals & Strategic Alignment: Establish compelling objectives that motivate and create shared direction
- Constraints & Boundaries: Create focus that directs effort toward priorities
- Diversity & Complementary Capabilities: Build teams with the right mix of skills and perspectives
- Team Development Models: Apply Tuckman and Drexler/Sibbet frameworks to real-world scenarios
- Situational Leadership: Master adapting your leadership approach based on team maturity
Day 2: Building Trust, Authority, and Sustainability
Morning: Developing Psychological Safety & Team Cohesion
- Trust & Psychological Safety: Implement Patrick Lencioni’s model to build the foundation for collaboration
- Team Chartering: Create powerful agreements that prevent conflicts and align expectations
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Break down silos and build bridges across team boundaries
- Decision Authority & Accountability Framework: Clarify who makes which decisions using delegation boards while building mutual responsibility without micromanagement
Afternoon: Creating Support Systems & Continuous Evolution
- Conflict Resolution: Transform disagreements into opportunities for innovation and growth
- Performance Metrics & Engagement: Understand the measures that matter for sustainable excellence
- Supportive Environment: Design the context teams need to excel
- Implementation & Evolution Planning: Create your 30/60/90 day roadmap for continuous team development
Your Complete Team Leadership Transformation Package
We’ve designed this workshop around the High Performing Teams Canvas to deliver exceptional value with everything you need to transform your leadership approach and build high-performing teams.
Your investment includes:
Immersive Learning Experience
- Hands-On Framework Application: Apply the visual canvas directly to your specific team challenges
- Expert-Led Facilitation: Receive guidance from experienced coaches on implementing each component
- Personalized Development: Limited class size ensures your team’s unique situations are addressed
- Real-World Practice: Work through actual scenarios before implementing with your team
Comprehensive Resource Toolkit
- Assessment Tools: Evaluate your team across all seven elements with practical metrics
- Implementation Templates: Ready-to-use resources for each area of the framework
- Digital Resource Library: Online access to templates, assessments, and implementation guides
Ongoing Support and Development
- Implementation Roadmap: A personalized 30/60/90 day plan for applying what you’ve learned
- Coaching Option: Access to post class 1:1 support for your implementation journey
Professional Advancement
- Scrum Educational Units: Receive 14 SEUs recognized by the Scrum Alliance
- Professional Development Units: Earn 14 PMI PDUs to maintain your project management credentials
Our Confidence Guarantee
Your success is our success, which is why we offer guarantees that eliminate all risk from your investment.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee Includes:
We’re so confident in the value of this workshop that we offer a bold promise: If at any point during the first day you feel this training isn’t delivering exceptional value, simply let us know, and we’ll provide a complete refund, no questions asked, no forms to fill out, no hassle whatsoever.
Our Flexible Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy
Life happens, and plans change. We understand.
- Need to cancel? Notify us before the workshop, and we’ll issue you a full refund.
- Need to reschedule? Let us know and we’ll transfer your registration to any future workshop date, at no additional cost.
- Workshop canceled? While extremely rare, should we need to cancel or reschedule, you’ll receive a 100% refund immediately, plus priority registration for the next available date.
The Real Guarantee: Results You Can See
The true measure of our workshop’s value is the tangible improvements you’ll see in your team’s performance in the weeks and months that follow like:
- Reduced team conflicts and improved collaboration
- Higher engagement scores and lower turnover
- Faster decision-making and improved execution
- Greater innovation and problem-solving capacity
Ready to watch your leadership impact multiply throughout the year?
Meet Your Expert Workshop Leader
Fadi Stephan – Technology Executive & Transformation Leader
As a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of experience building and leading high-performing teams and organizations across multiple industries, Fadi brings real-world expertise and proven strategies to this transformative workshop.
Why Learn From Fadi:
Proven Results
Fadi has built and led product development teams that have achieved consistent year-over-year growth. His leadership has transformed struggling teams into high performing innovative teams.
Cross-Industry Expertise
From startups to Fortune 500 companies, across financial services, hospitality, government, and technology sectors, Fadi has successfully implemented his team-building methodologies in diverse environments, giving him insight into challenges unique to your industry.
Deep Technical & Management Background
With dual graduate degrees in Computer Science and Management of Information Systems, Fadi bridges the gap between technical expertise and leadership principles, a combination that allows him to connect with both technical and non-technical leaders.
Elite Training Credentials
In 2014, Fadi became 1 of only 200 professionals worldwide to earn the prestigious Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) designation from the Scrum Alliance. This exclusive credential authorizes Fadi to deliver official Scrum Alliance certification classes and reflects his exceptional mastery of agile leadership principles that underpin effective team leadership for product development teams and organizations.
Transformation Specialist
Fadi has guided numerous organizations through digital transformations, helping them shift toward agile product teams and product operating models. He understands the human dynamics that make or break organizational change initiatives.
Internationally Recognized Thought Leader
As a frequent speaker at global conferences on agile product management and team leadership, Fadi stays at the cutting edge of leadership practices and brings these insights directly to workshop participants.
“As a leader, your job is to create environments where people can thrive. Use the High Performing Teams Canvas to help you foster such an environment and transform your teams into extraordinary teams that deliver innovative products. ” – Fadi Stephan
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Corporate Training Options – Building High-Performing Teams Workshop
Transform Your Entire Leadership Organization with Customized Team Training
Build team leadership capability across your organization with training designed for your specific team challenges, organizational culture, and leadership development needs.
Team Training Benefits:
- Customized Content: Training adapted to your organization’s team structures, challenges, and leadership contexts
- Volume Pricing: Corporate rates available for teams of 6+ participants with multi-session packages
- Flexible Delivery: On-site training at your location, virtual delivery for distributed teams, or 3-4 day extended formats
- Organizational Alignment: Build common team leadership practices and frameworks across your organization
- Implementation Support: Post-workshop coaching and team assessment sessions to address your specific challenges
- Reduced External Dependence: Build internal team leadership expertise and create internal coaching capability
Corporate Training Process:
- Discovery Call: We assess your organization’s current team leadership challenges, management maturity, and team performance issues
- Fit: Ensure workshop content fits your team, leadership, and organizational context
- Delivery: Intensive hands-on training with your team
- Follow-up: Implementation support to ensure practices are adopted and delivering results
Our Holistic Approach to Organizational Capability
Team leadership provides the foundation for executing effectively in competitive markets. To maximize this foundation, organizations need strategic product thinking that guides what teams build, quality delivery practices that enable teams to ship reliable features fast, and adaptive organizational structures that support continuous team evolution and learning.
Our comprehensive training addresses all four capabilities:
- Building High-Performing Teams Workshop – Team empowerment and execution effectiveness (THIS WORKSHOP)
- Building Innovative Products Workshop – Strategic product thinking and customer discovery
- Building Quality Products Workshop – Technical excellence in AI-powered development
- Building High-Performing Organizations Workshop – Organizational agility and adaptive systems
Ready to transform your leadership organization? Schedule a consultation to explore team training.
Frequently Asked Questions About Your Team Leadership Training
Common Questions About Our Team Performance Workshop
How can I find out more information?
Did we miss anything? Not sure if this workshop is for you? Want us to send you an invoice? Feel free to reach out with any additional questions you might have. We are happy to help out!
Who is this leadership workshop best suited for?
This leadership workshop is ideal for current and aspiring leaders across all industries who want to elevate their team’s performance. Whether you’re managing established teams facing challenges or building new teams from the ground up, you’ll gain practical tools to enhance team dynamics, communication, and results.
Can the workshop be customized for our organization’s specific challenges?
Absolutely. For private workshops, we conduct pre-workshop interviews to understand your specific team challenges and customize case studies and exercises accordingly. This ensures the content directly addresses your organization’s unique situation while maintaining the research-backed framework. Private workshops include a 3-day or 4-day option for more in-depth hands-on exercises Reach out to find out more.
How soon can we implement what we learn?
The workshop is designed for immediate application. Each module includes practical tools that can be implemented the very next day, and you’ll leave ready to start transforming your team’s performance.
Do I need prior leadership experience to benefit from this workshop?
No. While seasoned leaders will gain new perspectives and tools, the workshop is equally valuable for emerging leaders and those preparing to take on leadership roles. The content is designed to meet you where you are in your leadership journey.
I’ve tried team-building activities before with limited success. How is this different?
This workshop goes far beyond traditional team-building exercises to address the fundamental elements of high-performing teams: purpose, structure, clarity, psychological safety, and continuous improvement. Rather than isolated activities, you’ll learn a comprehensive approach to team development that creates lasting change in how your team functions.
Additional Resources & References
This workshop builds upon and delivers practical application and integration of established frameworks and research. For participants who want to explore the foundational concepts in greater depth, these resources provide valuable background:
Workshop Resources
Team Performance Frameworks & Models:
12 Essential Attributes of High-Performing Teams – Comprehensive guide to the characteristics that distinguish exceptional teams
High Performing Team Canvas – Visual framework for assessing and developing all seven dimensions of team excellence
Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development – Understanding team evolution through Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing stages
Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model – Seven-stage framework for team creation and performance
Shu Ha Ri – Individual and team skill development model from beginner to mastery
Leadership Approaches:
Situational Leadership – Adapting your leadership style based on team member development and task complexity
Leadership Agility – Understanding expert, achiever, and catalyst leadership levels
Psychological Safety & Team Dynamics:
Psychological Safety Guide – Amy Edmondson’s research-backed approach to creating environments where teams can take risks and innovate
Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team – Understanding and overcoming absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results
Product Team Conflict Management – Turn tension into innovation through effective conflict resolution strategies
Empowerment & Decision-Making:
Delegation Board – Practical tool for clarifying decision authority and increasing team autonomy
Decision-Making Techniques for Facilitators – 9 methods to drive group consensus and improve team decision-making
Core Books & Research:
Team Development:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni – Essential reading on building cohesive, high-performing teams through trust and accountability
The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson – Research-based guide to creating psychological safety in the workplace
Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal – How to create adaptable, resilient teams in complex environments
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle – The secrets of highly successful groups and how to build them
Leadership & Management:
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet – Leadership lessons on creating leaders at every level through intent-based leadership
Radical Candor by Kim Scott – How to be a better boss through caring personally and challenging directly
The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner – Research-backed practices of exemplary leadership
Multipliers by Liz Wiseman – How the best leaders make everyone smarter and amplify team capability
Team Dynamics & Performance:
The Wisdom of Teams by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith – What makes teams work and how to create high-performance teams
Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler – Tools for talking when stakes are high
Humble Leadership by Edgar Schein and Peter Schein – The power of relationships, openness, and trust in leadership
Research & Academic Resources:
Google’s Project Aristotle – Research on what makes teams effective, highlighting psychological safety as the key factor
Harvard Business Review on Teams – Collection of research-backed articles on team effectiveness and performance
Online Tools & Assessments:
Management 3.0 Tools – Practical tools including delegation poker, moving motivators, and team competency matrix
Liberating Structures – Facilitation techniques for engaging and unleashing groups of any size
Related Kaizenko Workshops:
Building Innovative Products Workshop – Strategic product thinking and customer discovery to guide what your team builds
Building Quality Products Workshop – Technical excellence in AI-powered development for quality execution
Building High-Performing Organizations Workshop – Organizational agility and adaptive systems that support team excellence
Ready to Transform Your Team with Leadership Training?
For Individuals:
Spaces are limited to 16 participants per session to ensure personalized instruction on team leadership tools and techniques.
For Teams:
Schedule a 15-minute consultation to discuss your team’s challenges and ensure this workshop meets your needs.