Custom Team
Culture Programs
Off-the-shelf leadership programs teach generic skills. Custom programs address your specific leadership challenges. We design and deliver leadership development that's tailored to your organization's culture, strategy, and real leadership gaps.
A Custom Team Culture Program is a strategically designed intervention that reshapes how your team operates, communicates, and performs together.
This isn’t team building. This is team transformation.
We start by diagnosing your team’s current behavioral norms using the Circumplex Team Scan™ (CTS)—measuring exactly how your team shows up across 8 culture styles, from Courageous & Confident to Competitive & Pushy. Then we design a tailored program that addresses your team’s specific gaps between current reality and ideal culture.
What makes this custom:
- Your team’s actual data drives the design. We don’t guess. We measure current vs. ideal culture, identify specific behavioral gaps, and build interventions around what your team actually needs—not what a generic program assumes.
- Your context shapes the approach. Whether you’re a leadership team navigating a merger, a sales team struggling with internal competition, or a project team that’s gone silent, we design for your specific situation.
- Your timeline and constraints matter. We work within your reality—whether that’s a 3-month intensive, a 6-month transformation, or an ongoing culture evolution program.
The program typically combines:
- Culture assessment and diagnosis (CTS deployment and analysis)
- Team workshops and sprints (intensive working sessions that shift behavior in real-time)
- Leadership coaching (for team leaders driving the change)
- Behavioral activation (practical tools and rituals that embed new norms)
- Progress measurement (re-assessment to track actual behavior change)
This is for teams that are serious about performance—and understand that culture isn’t what you say in a values statement, it’s how people actually behave when no one’s watching.
You need a Custom Team Culture Program when:
| Your team is underperforming and you know culture is the culprit |
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| Your team is going through significant change |
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| Your team has specific behavioral issues that generic training won't fix |
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| You've tried team building and it didn't stick |
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| You're building a new team and want to get culture right from the start |
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How It Works
100% Online & Live | 4 x 120 minute Interactive Labs | Real-time coaching + Peer Learning
Phase 1: Diagnose (Weeks 1-3)
Culture Assessment
We deploy the Circumplex Team Scan™ (CTS) to measure your team’s current and ideal culture across 8 behavioral styles. This isn’t a survey about how people feel—it’s a measurement of how people actually behave.
Stakeholder Interviews
We conduct confidential interviews with team members and key stakeholders to understand the context, history, and specific challenges that data alone won’t reveal.
Data Analysis & Diagnosis
We analyze the culture data alongside interview insights to identify:
- Specific behavioral gaps (where current and ideal culture diverge)
- Root causes of dysfunction or underperformance
- Cultural strengths to leverage
- Behavioral patterns that need to shift
- Team dynamics that are helping or hindering performance
Diagnostic Debrief
We present findings to the team leader and/or leadership team, including:
- Current vs. ideal culture profile
- Specific behavioral gaps and their impact
- Key insights from stakeholder interviews
- Recommended focus areas for the program
Phase 2: Design (Weeks 3-4)
Program Architecture
Based on the diagnosis, we design a custom program that addresses your team’s specific needs. This includes:
- Program objectives and success metrics
- Intervention mix (workshops, coaching, tools, rituals)
- Timeline and milestones
- Roles and responsibilities
- Communication approach
Content Customization
We don’t deliver off-the-shelf content. Every workshop, tool, and intervention is customized to:
- Address your team's specific behavioral gaps
- Use your team's actual language and context
- Incorporate your team's real challenges and scenarios
- Align with your organization's broader culture and strategy
Stakeholder Alignment
We align with key stakeholders (team leader, HR, senior leadership) on:
- Program design and approach
- Success metrics and measurement
- Communication strategy
- Resource requirements
- Risk mitigation
Phase 3: Activate (Months 2-4)
Team Culture Workshop (Day 1)
We bring the team together for an intensive workshop that:
- Reveals the culture data in real-time
- Facilitates honest conversation about current behavioral norms
- Co-creates the ideal culture and behavioral commitments
- Identifies specific actions to close culture gaps
- Establishes new team rituals and practices
Behavioral Activation (Ongoing)
We implement practical tools and rituals that embed new behavioral norms:
- Team operating agreements (how we actually work together)
- Meeting rituals (structures that reinforce desired behaviors)
- Communication protocols (how we give feedback, make decisions, resolve conflict)
- Accountability mechanisms (how we hold each other to new standards)
Leadership Coaching (Monthly)
We coach the team leader on:
- Modeling desired behaviors
- Reinforcing new norms
- Addressing behavioral regression
- Navigating resistance
- Sustaining momentum
Team Sprints (Quarterly)
We facilitate shorter working sessions (half-day or full-day) that:
- Address emerging challenges
- Reinforce behavioral commitments
- Solve real problems using new cultural norms
- Celebrate progress and recalibrate
Phase 4: Embed (Months 4-6)
Progress Measurement
We re-deploy the CTS to measure behavioral change:
- Has the culture gap closed?
- Which behaviors have shifted?
- What's working and what needs adjustment?
Sustainability Planning
We work with the team leader to:
- Identify practices that need to continue
- Build internal capability to sustain the culture
- Plan for ongoing reinforcement
- Address any remaining gaps
Final Debrief & Handover
We present final results and hand over:
- Before/after culture data showing measurable change
- Documentation of new team practices and rituals
- Sustainability plan and recommendations
- Tools for ongoing culture management
- Sustaining momentum
What You Get
Early Bird Pricing - Ends November 30
Comprehensive Culture Diagnosis
- CTS culture assessment (current vs. ideal)
- Stakeholder interview insights
- Detailed diagnostic report
- Culture gap analysis
- Behavioral recommendations
Custom Program Design
- Tailored program architecture
- Customized workshop content
- Behavioral activation tools
- Communication materials
- Implementation roadmap
Expert Facilitation & Coaching
- Team culture workshop (full-day)
- Quarterly team sprints (3-4 sessions)
- Monthly leadership coaching (6 sessions)
- On-demand support throughout program
Practical Tools & Resources
- Team operating agreements
- Meeting rituals and protocols
- Communication frameworks
- Accountability mechanisms
- Culture reinforcement tools
Measurable Results
- Before/after culture data
- Behavioral change metrics
- Progress reports
- Final results presentation
- Sustainability plan
Who It's For
Leadership Teams
- Executive teams that need to model the culture they want to see
- Senior leadership teams navigating strategic change
- New leadership teams establishing behavioral norms
Functional Teams
- Sales teams struggling with internal competition
- Product/engineering teams with collaboration issues
- Operations teams dealing with silos
- Marketing teams lacking creative courage
Project Teams
- Cross-functional teams with unclear norms
- Transformation teams driving organizational change
- Integration teams post-merger or acquisition
Teams at Inflection Points
- High-growth teams scaling rapidly
- Restructured teams finding their new identity
- Hybrid teams rebuilding connection
- Underperforming teams ready to turn it around
What Makes It Different
We measure behavior, not attitudes
Most team programs rely on subjective feedback about how people feel. We measure observable behavioral norms—how people actually interact and communicate. This gives you objective data on what needs to change and whether it’s changing.
We design for your team's actual gaps
We don’t deliver a standard program and hope it fits. We diagnose your team’s specific behavioral gaps and design interventions that address them directly. Your team’s data drives the design.
We activate behavior change, not just awareness
Awareness doesn’t change behavior. We implement practical tools, rituals, and accountability mechanisms that make new behaviors the path of least resistance. We make it easier to do the right thing than the old thing.
We work at the team level, not just the individual level
Individual development is important, but team culture is a collective phenomenon. We work with the whole team to shift behavioral norms together—because one person can’t change a culture alone.
We measure progress objectively
We re-assess culture after the program to show you exactly what’s changed. You get before/after data on behavioral shifts, not just participant satisfaction scores.
We build internal capability
We don’t create dependency. We transfer knowledge and tools so your team can sustain and evolve the culture without us.
How This Integrates
With Leadership Development
Custom Team Culture Programs often run alongside individual leadership development. While leaders work on their personal effectiveness, the team works on collective behavioral norms. This creates alignment between individual and team-level change.
With Organizational Culture Programs
Team culture programs can be part of a broader organizational culture transformation. We align team-level interventions with organization-wide culture initiatives to create consistency and momentum.
With Executive Coaching
Team leaders often engage in executive coaching while leading their team through culture change. This provides personalized support for the unique challenges of driving team transformation.
With Change Management
Culture change is behavior change. Custom Team Culture Programs can be integrated into broader change initiatives to ensure new ways of working actually stick.
Investment & Timeline
Investment: $25,000 - $75,000 per team
- Varies based on team size, program duration, and complexity
- Includes all assessment, design, facilitation, coaching, and tools
- Custom quote provided after initial consultation
Timeline: 3-6 months typical program duration
- Month 1: Diagnose and design
- Months 2-4: Activate and embed
- Months 4-6: Measure and sustain
- Can be compressed or extended based on needs
Team Size: Optimized for teams of 6-15 people
- Smaller teams: More intensive, faster transformation
- Larger teams: May require sub-team work or extended timeline
