You can have smart people, talented leaders, and plenty of expertise on a team and still wonder why working together is so hard. Meetings take more energy than they should. Tension lingers. The same issues resurface because people avoid saying what they really think, or save it for the meeting after the meeting. Over time, talented people get frustrated, collaboration suffers, and the team gets less from everyone.
The problem isn’t necessarily the people. It’s that being great at your job and being great at your team require different skills.
In this engaging and interactive keynote, Darcy Luoma introduces Thoughtfully Fit® Teams, a practical framework for working better together. Through humor, stories, and hands-on experiences, she reveals three reasons even smart, successful teams get stuck—and three practical plays to help them work better together.
Because when a team gets better at working together, people spend less energy navigating each other and more energy doing great work. They’re more willing to say what needs to be said, work through differences, and contribute what they have to offer. The result isn’t a team without tension. It’s a team that knows how to use tension productively to achieve results no individual could achieve alone.
Whether you lead a team or are part of one, you’ll be challenged to think differently about how you show up and leave with practical tools you can use immediately to help your team get better together.
