You’ve just been hired as a team coach or facilitator. Tomorrow you meet your first project team. What do you really need to know—and what should you not touch yet?

In this session, we’ll use a research-informed approach to joining and strengthening established teams, grounded in J. Richard Hackman’s conditions for team effectiveness, Amy Edmondson’s psychological safety, and emerging insights on dynamic reteaming. 

You’ll build a “first 30 days” discovery plan and a lightweight diagnostic that helps you separate observation from assumption, identify real risks, and choose early “safe-to-try” coaching moves. We’ll focus on integrating as a thoughtful guest rather than a heroic fixer—supporting the team’s strengths while avoiding well-intentioned disruption. 

You’ll leave with practical questions, maps, and moves you can apply immediately.

Learning Objectives:

• Use a lightweight diagnostic to assess a team’s starting context using the five conditions for team effectiveness (Hackman) and psychological safety (Edmondson).
• Separate evidence from interpretation by labeling observations as observation / inference / assumption, and identify one likely personal bias that could distort your early read.
• Prioritize and sequence early interventions by selecting reversible “safe-to-try” moves that fit the team’s context and minimize unintended disruption in the first 30 days.
• Design a first-30-days entry plan (questions, checkpoints, and feedback loops) that helps the team sustain strengths, surface constraints, and improve without losing existing performance.”