T-Group for Advanced Leadership Teams
Up-level communication, emotional intelligence, transparency, and trust. Together, learn tools to increase collective insight and sensitivity for team power, alignment, and DEIB excellence.
T-Group will help your team
• foster true connection between individuals from diverse backgrounds
• accelerate team cohesion
• create depth and connective candor
• practice authenticity & transparency
• skillfully address conflict​
• build trust
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Potential outcomes include increasing
• tools for providing appreciative and challenging feedback, succinctly
• interpersonal relating skills
• insight, perspective taking, and sensitivity
• emotional intelligence (EQ)
• radical candor, directness, and diplomacy
• psychological safety for your team and company
• active listening, attunement, curiosity
• personal impact and influence
• healthy risk taking and skillful vulnerability
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What is T-Group?
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The "T" stands for "training"-- but I like to think of it as standing for trust, transparency, and team health. T-Group is an authentic communication tool that allows participants to swiftly drop into a deep, connective space, where awareness and emotional intelligence are accelerated. Participants may improve empathy, gain insight, learn about their blindspots and gain sensitivity. Read about its history here.
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How does T-Group work?
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We can spend days talking *about* vulnerability, trust, psychological safety, and how important communication is. But the real learning takes place through experience. T-Group provides a safe way to practice these skills in real time, when the stakes are low. Instead of learning through trial and error during high stakes situations, your team has a safe space to practice new behaviors.
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What are the logistics?
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To book a complimentary consultation and learn whether T-group is appropriate for your organization, schedule a time here.
In your team's first 2-hr T-Group, I teach the tool and members of your team (anywhere from 2-7 people) practice it. I recommend that your team engages in a minimum of 6 facilitated T-groups. The more facilitated T-groups your team participates in, the more individual and collective sensitivity they will develop. I offer more advanced tools and theory about group dynamics with each progressive T-Group.
After your team becomes skillful in T-Group, you can use it as your go-to team building activity during off-sites or retreats. I will make recommendations regarding continued training based on the individual progress of each participant.
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What You Will Get
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• A tool to next-level desired DEIB outcomes, and the efficacy of 1:1 or group meetings
• A tool that allows you to succinctly express concerns, insights, and challenging feedback
• A team building experience that simultaneously increases EQ & communication skills
• Astonishing, connective transparency
• A way to learn about our blind spots through hearing people's observations, reflections, projections, and narratives about your impact.
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About You
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You are a leader who wants to invest in building trust, emotional intelligence, and synergy within your team. You're willing to candidly share your perceptions, hopes, and challenges. You recognize that empathy and vulnerability and are ways to improve team dynamics and sensitivity, and you want a tool to swiftly facilitate their growth. You're looking for a way to facilitate experiential progress toward increased motivation, engagement, and dynamic collaboration. You want a way to illuminate blindspots. If this resonates, book a complimentary consultation to learn more about it.
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How T-Group Diffuses Tension & Defensiveness
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T-Group requires courage. We stalk our own truths and practice sharing them skillfully. We receive both appreciative and challenging feedback that allows us to meet our blindspots and navigate defensiveness, cultivating emotional resilience. Over time, we develop confidence with directly addressing interpersonal dynamics in a way that connects and inspires. (Think of addressing the elephants in the room with an ease that inspires collaboration and productivity, instead of awkwardness and fear.) By learning to navigate the depths of T-group, we cultivate precision with emotional insights and grow an even more authentic, powerful presence.
History of T-Group
A more thorough history and resources can be found here
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In 1946, psychologist Kurt Lewin was asked to begin a series of conversations with community members designed to help ease racial tension in Bridgeport, CT. The outcome of those efforts eventually led to an initiative to improve the management of large organizations, with a focus on labor relations. T-Group became embraced by universities, the US military, and corporate America.
Articles on T-groups began appearing in the Harvard Business Review by the mid 60s. Proponents advocated for the methodology to become a foundational core of management training and university education. The first “Interpersonal Dynamics” class teaching T-Group was taught at Stanford in 1968. It continues to be taught at several business schools, including Stanford and Berkeley.
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