Educate and Elevate Your Teams
Leaders rely on their teams for shared success, but teams don’t become high performing by accident. They require upfront investment, ongoing nourishing, regular evaluation, and ongoing direction. Through every stage of team development – forming, storming, norming, and performing – WorkJoy offers solutions to ensure every “me” on your team is ready for any challenge.
Team upleveling integrates training and coaching techniques to develop team members’ competencies, enhancing their ability to achieve goals collaboratively and advance professionally. Team events – like offsites and retreats – combine targeted upskilling with inspirational speaking to jumpstart new teams, reinvigorate established teams, and recognize teams as they prepare for the next adventures.
Team Upleveling
We are intrinsically motivated by learning, growth, and challenge. Organizations want employees who are agile, self-aware, and continuously evolve. And yet most training – a critical bridge between individual aspirations and organizational requirements – doesn’t cut it. It’s boring. Irrelevant. Too long. Not long enough. Flavor of the month. It’s time to reimagine how we upskill and uplevel our teams.
We start with your desired outcomes – how do you want your teams to act, what do you want them to know, and how do you want them to feel? How does a “high performing team” in your organization behave? What is the gap between your team’s current state and its highest potential? We then co-create the best educational experience, supporting skill-building with individual coaching and group coaching to reinforce and personalize the learning.
Consider team upleveling if you want to:
- Increase trust to facilitate productive conflict and more effective problem solving
- Develop team emotional intelligence (EQ) through enhanced self-awareness and adaptation strategies
- Hone specific skills to prepare your team for future workplace challenges
Recent examples of team upleveling include:
- Emotional intelligence skill-building leveraging self-awareness and social-awareness tools like DiSC, True Colors, and CliftonStrengths
- Embracing productive and constructive conflict – leveraging the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
- Allyship in the workplace - how global team members can support each other in innovative ways
- How to lead through influence and persuasion - regardless of level in the organization
- Becoming an effective mentor - and benefiting from mentoring
- Increasing confidence to speak publicly and present convincingly
Team Events
As Billy Joel reminds us, “Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood.” Even at work – sometimes we just need to get away from it all. Whether it be in person in a conference room, virtually over Zoom or Teams, or gathered together miles away from the office, we need dedicated time to dive deep into challenges, dream big with strategy, and connect with each other. Re-engage, re-inspire, and re-juvenate your team with a perspective-shifting offsite / retreat / summit / event.
The WorkJoy team partners with you to understand your desired outcomes and then co-creates an experience that will educate while it engages and entertains. We build on what works with your team and align with cultural preferences, crafting and curating a seamless experience that will keep them coming back for more.
One of our clients said it best: “Our team members told us it was the best retreat they had attended. They loved the pace and energy of the facilitation and the engaging exercises that made them go deep…WorkJoy skillfully balanced keeping things moving with giving enough time for everyone to participate, feel heard, and contribute meaningfully.”
A few of our recent offsite / retreat / summit success stories:
- Featured speaker at international retail summit for 200+ store managers
- Designer of/facilitator for three-day offsite retreat for 40+ regional nonprofit staff members
- Designer of/facilitator for day-long strategic planning retreat for global nonprofit board members
- Featured speaker at offsite “development day” for 200+ professional services advisory employees
- Facilitator for eCommerce fashion brand’s development day within a larger strategy offsite
What are you waiting for? Let’s get planning!
