Transform Your Group of Individuals Into a Cohesive Force
Is "artificial harmony" preventing your team from solving its toughest problems? Our powerful Team Building workshop is designed to break down the barriers of ego and distrust to unlock your team's true potential.
You've assembled a team of talented, high-performing leaders. Yet, you're not seeing the results you expect. Crucial conversations are being avoided, meetings are unproductive, and a lack of peer-to-peer accountability is forcing you to be the sole enforcer. This is the invisible ceiling that holds back even the most promising growth-stage companies. To scale to $100M and beyond, you need more than just smart individuals—you need a truly cohesive team.
The Hidden Costs of a Dysfunctional Team
If you're a leader of a scaling business, you know that team issues are business issues. Does any of this feel familiar?
You Suffer from Artificial Harmony
Everyone is polite and agreeable in meetings, but the real conversations—and disagreements—happen in private. Critical issues fester because your team lacks the vulnerability-based trust required to engage in healthy, passionate debate about what truly matters.
Accountability is a Dirty Word
Team members are hesitant to call each other out on behaviors or performance that hurt the team. The burden of accountability falls entirely on you as the leader, creating a bottleneck and preventing a culture of shared ownership from taking root.
You're Working in Silos
Departments or individuals protect their own turf, failing to communicate and collaborate for the greater good of the company. This lack of communication leads to duplicated efforts, missed deadlines, and frustrated clients.
Commitment is Ambiguous
People nod in agreement during meetings but fail to uphold those decisions later on. This leads to confusion, stalled projects, and a lack of confidence in the team's ability to execute.
The Solution: A Workshop That Replaces Dysfunction with Trust
As a certified facilitator of The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team®, Mark Fenner leads a transformative workshop that is nothing short of magical.
We create a safe, structured environment where your team can finally be honest with one another. Using a proven, research-backed framework, we guide your team through exercises designed to build vulnerability-based trust, master constructive conflict, achieve commitment, embrace accountability, and focus on collective results.
This isn't about blame or "kumbaya" exercises; it's about breaking down the natural barriers of pride and ego so you can build the foundation for real teamwork. It’s a powerful process that requires an experienced, unbiased outsider to facilitate effectively.
We create a safe, structured environment where your team can finally be honest with one another. Using a proven, research-backed framework, we guide your team through exercises designed to build vulnerability-based trust, master constructive conflict, achieve commitment, embrace accountability, and focus on collective results.
This isn't about blame or "kumbaya" exercises; it's about breaking down the natural barriers of pride and ego so you can build the foundation for real teamwork. It’s a powerful process that requires an experienced, unbiased outsider to facilitate effectively.
The Transformation: From Dysfunction to a High-Performing Team
When you partner with a Scaling Up facilitator, you don't just leave with ideas. You leave with a complete system for execution.
FROM
An avoidance of conflict
TO
A culture of open, constructive, and ideological debate.
FROM
A lack of commitment
TO
Unwavering buy-in and clarity around decisions.
FROM
An avoidance of accountability
TO
A willingness to hold each other to high standards.
FROM
An inattention to results
TO
A relentless focus on achieving collective outcomes.
Case Study: "It Annihilated the Barriers Holding Us Back"
The Challenge
The leadership team at Lone Star, a rapidly growing industrial company, was plagued by dysfunction. Frustration was high, back-channel conversations were common, and key leaders were constantly bringing problems to the CEO instead of solving them with their peers.
The Solution
Mark facilitated a Five Behaviors workshop that included a structured peer-feedback exercise. Starting with the CEO, each leader received direct, constructive feedback from every other team member about what they did to support the team and what they did that was a detraction.
The Result
The exercise was a breakthrough. It forced the team to communicate with a level of honesty they had never experienced before. Barriers that had existed for years were annihilated in a single day. The team left with a new level of respect for one another and a shared commitment to peer-to-peer accountability, dramatically improving their ability to solve problems and execute as a unified force.
"We were skeptical, but the change was magical. The way we communicate and hold each other accountable after that one day was unbelievable. It completely changed our team dynamic for the better."
- Ray, CEO, Lone Star
"What Mark did was, he got us aligned. Once you get your leadership team aligned, it's very powerful because I didn't realize that we weren't aligned. Once we got aligned as a team, then we took off."
-Scott Magee, Cougar USA
"Mark's been fantastic. It's very much a unique format. A lot of it is actually collaboration with other integrators and understanding that the challenges that they're facing are pretty much the same challenges that we're facing."
-Jorge Rodriguez, Branch Audiovisual
Ready to Build a Truly Cohesive and High-Performing Team?
A dysfunctional team is the biggest threat to your company's growth. A cohesive team is your ultimate competitive advantage. If you're ready to unlock your team's full potential, the next step is a brief discovery call.
