High Performing Teams
Ensemble Leadership, Team Learning, and Collective Intelligence
Transform teams into high-performing ensembles with deep trust, constructive conflicts, honest commitment, peer accountability, and collective results—driving higher productivity, lower turnover and amplified innovation.
What This Programme Is
Building High-Performing Teams develops capacity to create and lead teams that function as true ensembles—where collective intelligence exceeds individual capability, psychological safety enables risk-taking, and shared purpose drives extraordinary performance. Drawing on Patrick Lencioni's five dysfunctions framework, Peter Senge's team learning discipline, Amy Edmondson's teaming research, and Keith Sawyer's group genius principles, this program uses theatre ensemble methodology to build teams that trust deeply, engage in productive conflict, commit fully, hold each other accountable, and focus on collective results. Theatre ensembles have perfected these dynamics for centuries.
Who this is For
Leaders building new teams or transforming existing ones
Executive teams needing to function as cohesive unit
Project leaders assembling cross-functional teams
Anyone leading teams through high-complexity, high-stakes work
Intact teams wanting to elevate performance together
Leaders building distributed or hybrid teams requiring strong cohesion
What You’ll Develop
Core Capabilities:
Building trust foundation through vulnerability-based exercises
Facilitating productive conflict vs. artificial harmony
Creating genuine commitment beyond mere compliance
Establishing peer accountability without leader as enforcer
Focusing team on collective results over individual goals
Developing team learning capacity (Senge's discipline)
Accessing group genius through collaborative creativity (Sawyer)
Format
Highly experiential using ensemble creation exercises, long-form group improvisation, collective problem-solving challenges, trust-building physical work, conflict rehearsal through Forum Theatre, and accountability structure development. Intact teams work on real team challenges throughout.
Key Competencies:
Lencioni's five dysfunctions addressed: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, inattention to results
Senge's team learning: dialogue, discussion, and productive reasoning
Edmondson's teaming: rapid team formation for temporary projects
Katzenbach and Smith's team performance curve: working group to high-performing team
Sawyer's group genius: goal-oriented, deep listening, blending egos, equal participation
Ensemble principles: collective success, mutual support, shared ownership
