Team Building…
That Builds Teams

Have you ever paid for an expensive team-building outing for your staff only to watch the same negative culture play out?

Simply moving an under-collaborating team from a work context to a non-work context does not solve the problem. (Sorry to all the “let’s just take’em to a nice steakhouse” managers out there.)

For team building to be effective, the participants need to be overtly exposed to a healthy, collaborative culture. At PLAY Polarities®, we use the world of improvisation as a laboratory to experience the interpersonal fundamentals of our model:

• Co-Humanity: Showing up in ways that make space for others to show up as well

• We-Centeredness: Resisting the urge to see yourself as the main character of every workplace story; making the ensemble (the group and its needs) the center of the dialogue

• Accept, Adapt, Affect: Our suite of relationship-building skills focused on listening, openness, and authenticity

• Yes And: Our suite of team dynamics and leadership skills which empower groups to face common challenges as one

Now is the Perfect Time!

Many companies look to the holidays as a time to spend leftover budget money on something that will help team members reconnect, reflect, and refocus. Our thoughtful, playful programs can do just that. For more information, please get in touch!

Teaching Critical Human Skills in Fully Human Ways

The PLAY Polarities™️ focuses on those skills you’re least likely to learn in school. Whether virtual, in-person, or hybrid, we provide engaging, high-interactive learning experiences around crucial soft skills for leaders, salespeople, and service providers.

Our programs are not just about learning prescribed best practices, but empowering attendees to take ownership of how they show up. Our goal is to inspire everyone to bring their Full Selves to work!

These customized programs answer questions like:

• How do we cultivate self-understanding?

• How do we show up in a consistently admirable way?

• How do we get ourselves out of the way in critical conversations?

• How do we become a driving force in the groups we serve?

Consulting for Better Talent Development and Organizational Clarity

We’re very proud of our model, but there are lots of others out there. The important question for Talent Developers to answer is “what’s our through line?” It doesn’t have to be ours.

In our Arrowglass® Consulting practice, we work with your People Ops professionals to review all the ways your organization tells your people what matters. Together, we’ll examine:

• Strategy and Leadership

• Structure and Messaging

• Systems

• People

After our review, we’ll collaborate with you on what’s next. Perhaps, your company has all it needs to address its challenges once they are articulated through our four-channel process. Or, together we may see opportunities to partner on select talent development interventions to solve specific, tactical issues.

However, we may also find that your organization needs a larger, strategic reimagining. We are apt facilitators when a department or company needs to re-envision its “Core Language,” those guiding declarations that define how the entity fundamentally sees itself. Together we can develop one easy-to-remember model, metaphor, or “betterment story” that every employee sees reflected wherever they look in the organization.