Building High Performing Teams | Lead Your Team To Excellence | 2 Days 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Build High-Performing Teams Through Proven Leadership Frameworks

With AI transforming industries at unprecedented speed, team leadership has become a competitive advantage. Teams that collaborate effectively, resolve conflicts quickly, and execute with clarity outpace those that don't.

Most teams operate below their potential. Ideas go unshared. Conflicts simmer. Innovation stalls. Not because people lack talent, but because the environment doesn't support high performance.

This intensive 2-day online workshop gives you a proven system: the High Performing Teams Canvas. You'll assess your team across seven critical dimensions, identify specific gaps, and create a development roadmap you can implement immediately.

The High Performing Teams Canvas: Your Assessment and Development System

This workshop is built around the High Performing Teams Canvas, a visual framework that evaluates seven dimensions of team performance:

1. Goals & Alignment - Establish shared purpose and clear objectives

2. Focus & Boundaries - Define priorities and constraints that drive execution

3. Skills & Diversity - Map capabilities and build complementary strengths

4. Stability & Trust - Build psychological safety and effective communication

5. Empowerment & Accountability - Clarify decision authority and ownership

6. Foundation & Support - Ensure access to information, tools, and resources

7. Growth & Evolution - Implement feedback loops and continuous improvement

You'll use this canvas to assess your team, identify gaps, and create an action plan. This is a hands-on tool you'll work with during the workshop and implement when you return to your team.

Leadership Capabilities You'll Develop

Apply proven team development frameworks - Use Tuckman's stages, Drexler/Sibbet model, and Lencioni's five dysfunctions to diagnose team issues and guide improvement

Build psychological safety - Create structures where team members voice concerns, admit mistakes, and challenge ideas openly

Resolve conflicts productively - Use structured techniques to address disagreements before they escalate and turn tension into problem-solving discussions

Enable cross-functional collaboration - Map team skills and dependencies, clarify handoffs, and establish protocols that eliminate information gaps

Clarify decision authority - Use delegation frameworks to define who makes which decisions, reducing approval bottlenecks and accelerating execution

Create accountability without micromanagement - Establish clear commitments, visible tracking, and peer responsibility so teams self-organize and deliver

What You'll Walk Away With

✓ High Performing Teams Canvas assessment completed for your team

✓ 90-day development roadmap with prioritized actions

✓ Conflict resolution protocols and communication frameworks ready to implement

✓ Decision authority matrix that clarifies who owns which decisions

✓ Team chartering template to align expectations and prevent conflicts

✓ Trust-building exercises for professional teams

✓ Digital toolkit with templates, assessments, and implementation guides

✓ 14 SEUs (Scrum Alliance) and 14 PMI PDUs

Who Should Take This A-CSM Course

This workshop is designed for:

• Team Leaders & Managers responsible for team performance and outcomes
• Emerging Leaders preparing for management responsibilities
• Project & Product Managers balancing delivery pressure with team health
• Functional Managers moving from individual contributor to leadership roles
• Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches enhancing their facilitation capabilities
• Senior Leaders & Executives addressing leadership team dysfunction

Common team challenges this workshop addresses:

✗ Team conflicts that reduce productivity and drain energy
✗ Communication breakdowns that cause rework and missed deadlines
✗ Information silos that block collaboration between departments
✗ Unclear priorities that create confusion about direction
✗ Resistance to change when implementing new processes
✗ Team members who wait for direction instead of taking initiative
✗ High turnover of talented people seeking better team environments

Workshop Curriculum

This workshop uses the High Performing Teams Canvas as the organizing framework. The format is interactive: you'll work through exercises, analyze case studies, and apply frameworks to your own team situation.

Day 1: Foundations of Team Excellence

Morning: Understanding Team Dynamics & Assessment

• Core attributes that distinguish high-performing teams from average ones
• Complete High Performing Teams Canvas assessment of your current team
• Leadership style assessment and how different styles impact team behavior
• Individual and team development stages

Afternoon: Building Clarity, Purpose & Capability

• Goal alignment techniques to create shared understanding of objectives
• Using constraints and boundaries to create focus and drive priority decisions
• Mapping team skills and identifying capability gaps
• Team development models: Tuckman's stages and Drexler/Sibbet framework
• Situational leadership: adapting your approach based on team maturity

Day 2: Building Trust, Authority, and Sustainability

Morning: Developing Psychological Safety & Cohesion

• Building trust using Patrick Lencioni's five dysfunctions model
• Team chartering exercise to establish working agreements and prevent conflicts
• Cross-functional collaboration: clarifying interfaces and handoffs between teams
• Decision authority frameworks: using delegation boards to clarify ownership

Afternoon: Creating Support Systems & Continuous Evolution

• Conflict resolution techniques for professional disagreements
• Performance metrics: measuring team health and tracking improvement
• Designing team environments that support focus and collaboration
• Creating your 30/60/90 day implementation plan

Meet Your Instructor

Fadi Stephan, Certified Scrum Trainer®

For over 20 years, Fadi has helped struggling teams become high-performing units that consistently deliver results. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agencies across financial services, hospitality, telecom, and technology sectors.

What makes Fadi different? In 2014, he became one of only 200 professionals worldwide to earn the Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) designation, a credential that reflects rigorous evaluation of both expertise and teaching effectiveness. This elite designation requires demonstrated mastery of agile leadership and team building practices, proven ability to transform how teams work, and significant contributions to the agile community.

As VP of Product Development at Excella and as Director of Product Development at DATABASICS, Fadi has led software teams through complex transformations. He specializes in building teams that deliver on commitments while maintaining quality and team health.

Based in Washington DC, Fadi co-organizes the region's largest Scrum community and presents at national conferences including Agile Alliance and Scrum Gathering. Outside work, you'll find him cycling DC's trails or skiing the Rockies.

Outside of work, you'll find him cycling the trails around DC or skiing the Rockies.

What's Included in Your Registration

✓ Two full days of interactive online training (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time)

✓ Limited to 16 participants for personalized coaching

✓ High Performing Teams Canvas toolkit with assessment templates and implementation guides

✓ Customized 30/60/90 day action plan created during the workshop

✓ Digital resource library accessible after the workshop

✓ 14 Scrum Alliance SEUs and 14 PMI PDUs

✓ Flexible cancellation: full refund if you cancel 2+ days before the workshop

✓ 100% satisfaction guarantee: full refund if not satisfied by midday of Day 1, no questions asked

Ready to Build a Higher-Performing Team?

Only 16 spots available. Register now to secure your place.

Questions?

Not sure if this workshop is right for your team? Interested in corporate training for your organization? Feel free to reach out or check out the full details at www.kaizenko.com/building-high-performing-teams-workshop