arena 02 of 03 · teams at work
motivate and maximize your team for the long term.
for founders, leads, and core teams. a place to learn the lifelong skills of keeping a team aligned, motivated, and gaining momentum.
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without practice
small misalignments, left alone, become permanent friction.
- tension goes unspoken, and trust slowly leaks.
- feedback turns into fights, then into avoidance.
- execution becomes managing the team instead of doing the work.
- momentum gets replaced by going through the motions.
with practice
the same misalignments, met well, make a team stronger.
- you have a shared agreement for what to do when something feels off.
- repair becomes ordinary, not catastrophic.
- you keep moving together as the work and the people keep changing.
- doing the work together becomes the thing that makes the work better.
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01preparing
preparing for the season.
before anything else, creating a plan for staying close when things don't go as planned.
02restoring
restoring the soil.
when things go awry, having the conversations to return the team to trust and motivation.
03planting
planting new seeds.
creating new agreements for the work that needs to get done and how we want to do it together.
04tending
tending the garden.
honoring agreements in the daily experience of working together as a team.
when the season turns, you return to preparing. you begin again together, on the same page.
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