How to Foster TeamFlow in the Workplace
Learn how to help your team adapt and thrive, using the latest research in organisational psychology.
Duration
10 weeksWeekly study
3 hours
How to Foster TeamFlow in the Workplace
Discover how to create the conditions for TeamFlow in your organisation
When people are in flow, they perform better, are more creative, and experience greater wellbeing.
On this ten-week course, you’ll learn how the concept of flow can be translated to an organisational setting, by examining the fundamentals of TeamFlow. You’ll explore how teams can create flow to improve collaboration, innovation, and decision making by developing more inclusive, aligned and cohesive environments.
Create meaningful separation and improve team performance
Using techniques to make the most of people’s knowledge, skills, and strengths, you’ll learn to appreciate people’s unique contributions towards achieving team and organisational objectives.
Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to develop a culture of growth mindset that drives performance and creativity.
Enhance alignment using team goals
Team alignment ensures every individual has a common organisational vision and is able to work together to reach a common goal.
You’ll identify key personal and professional motivations and purposes to shape and give meaning to the direction of the team. Using practical tools and techniques you’ll be able to ensure your team stays on track and focused.
Develop team cohesion
By fostering respectful relationships, platforms for connection and meaningful communication, teams can maximise their efficiency and optimise their output.
You’ll explore how to deepen and strengthen human connection through more courageous and vulnerable communication. You’ll also learn to deliver impactful feedback even when working in remote or hybrid teams.
By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to foster TeamFlow within your organisation and ensure your team champions creativity, wellbeing and respect, whilst efficiently delivering on organisational goals.
Syllabus
Week 1
TeamFlow
Welcome to TeamFlow
In this activity, you'll be introduced to the content that will be covered during this course. You will also get an overview of the topics covered during the first week of this course.
Flow
In this activity, we'll focus on understanding the concept of flow, and why it is important and valuable in the workplace to improve people's performance, creativity and wellbeing.
TeamFlow
In this activity, we’ll turn our attention to the main focus of this course, which is TeamFlow. We’ll begin by looking at what it is and why it’s so important for organisations.
Conditions for TeamFlow
In this activity, we learn about the conditions required for teams to experience TeamFlow.
Flow and TeamFlow experiences
In this activity, we’ll begin to explore your experiences of flow and TeamFlow.
Week summary
In this activity, we take some time to reflect on what we’ve covered so far before we show you a short summary video with some key take-aways.
Week 2
Unique Contribution
Welcome to unique contribution
In this activity, we will explore what it means to make a unique contribution to your team and how it can add to the conditions required for TeamFlow.
Unique contribution – Overview
Let us now take a look at how having an understanding of each person's unique contribution supports effective collaboration in a team.
Unique contribution – Strengths, skills and knowledge
There are many ingredients to unique contribution including skills, knowledge and strengths.
Unique contribution – Growth, development and mastery
In this activity we will take a closer look at a few more important qualities of unique contribution.
Unique contribution experiences
In this activity, you’ll explore your unique contribution to your team. If you don’t have a team currently, you can think about your unique contribution to the world you live in.
Week summary
This week we’ve looked at the importance of unique contribution as a way to create meaningful separation between team members. This separation is one of the conditions that make TeamFlow more likely.
Week 3
Clarity of Expectations
Welcome to clarity of expectations
In this activity, we will be exploring a specific way we can create healthy separation, one of the conditions for TeamFlow.
Clarity of expectations – Overview
In this activity, we explore clarity of expectations and why this is vital to ensure team performance.
Flow, clarity and motivation
In this activity, we learn how clarity is deeply connected to conditions needed for people to experience flow, such as clear goals and clear feedback.
Clarity and self-management
In this activity, we learn that for teams to be able to perform well and enjoy their work, there needs to be clarity, and how self-managing teams can create this clarity in various ways.
Clarity of expectations experiences
In this activity, you’ll explore your experiences with clarity of expectations and identify some takeaway actions that could increase clarity for you.
Week summary
In this activity, we take some time to reflect on what we’ve covered so far before we show you a short summary video with some key take-aways.
Week 4
Safe to Stretch
Welcome to Safe to Stretch
The focus for this week is safe to stretch – another way to create meaningful separation within teams.
Safe to stretch
Feeling safe to stretch is vital for us to be able to keep growing and developing, and is foundational for people’s wellbeing and performance.
Safe to stretch – Psychological safety
Psychological safety is incredibly important for teams to flourish.
Safe to stretch – Micro behaviours
In this activity we will take a closer look at micro-behaviours, which are a key component of psychological safety.
Safe to stretch experiences
In this activity, you will explore your experiences of feeling safe to stretch in your team and identify some actions that could help with this.
Week summary
We're coming to the end of this week's work. We’ve been looking at the importance of feeling 'safe to stretch' as a way to help us create meaningful separation between team members.
Week 5
Team Goals
Welcome to team goals
In this activity, we will be exploring a specific way we can create alignment, one of the conditions for TeamFlow.
Team goals – Overview
In this activity, we learn how team goals align people, creating one of the conditions that make it much more likely for teams to reach an optimum flow state.
Hope theory, willpower and waypower
In this activity, we explore 'hope theory' and learn how people could most effectively turn their hopes and goals into reality.
Learned optimism
In this activity, we dive deeper into how optimism relates to goal achievement and how learned optimism can change our attitude and behaviours to become more positive and optimistic to increase our chances of personal thriving.
Team goals experiences
In this activity, you’ll explore your experiences of goals and identify some actions that could help improve the setting and pursuing of personal goals.
Week summary
In this activity, we take some time to reflect on what we’ve covered so far before we show you a short summary video with some key take-aways.
Week 6
On Track
Welcome to 'on track'
This week we will be looking at ways you can monitor the progress, performance and energy in your team – keeping everything and everyone 'on track'.
On track – Overview
To stay ‘on track’ as a team means we are tending to our needs and maintaining our wellbeing and resilience. By looking after ourselves and each other we are more likely to keep progressing successfully towards our team goals.
Pareto principle, time and energy
Let's now look at a specific technique that enables us to best manage our time and energy – 'the Pareto Principle'.
Burnout, stress and emotions
When you are under constant stress at work, your mental health will suffer, which could lead to burnout, a state of mental, emotional and physical exhaustion. Let's look at ways to avoid this and stay in the flow.
On track experiences
In this activity, you’ll explore your current use of your time and energy and consider ways to help yourself stay on track.
Week summary
In this activity you will get to reflect on what we’ve covered so far and focus on a few key take-aways of things that can be done differently to support yourself and others in your team to stay on track.
Week 7
Team Motivators
Welcome to Team Motivators
In this activity, we will focus on team motivators and how this can help us create alignment between team members.
Team motivators – Overview
In this activity, we explore the importance of team motivators for people and teams and learn how we can create team motivators.
Team motivators – Intrinsic motivation
In this activity, we learn how team motivators relate to intrinsic motivation, which is a drive to do things because they are enjoyable or interesting.
Psychological capital
In this activity, we learn about psychological capital (PsyCap) which is defined as a person's positive psychological state of development.
Team motivators experiences
In this activity, you’ll reflect on your own experiences of personal and team motivators and identify actions you could take to boost motivation for yourself and the team.
Week summary
In this activity, we take some time to reflect on what we’ve covered so far before we show you a short summary video with some key take-aways.
Week 8
Respectful Relationships
Welcome to respectful relationships
This week on our journey to understanding how we can create the conditions for Teamflow, we’ll be exploring how we can create cohesion amongst teams.
Respectful relationships – Overview
Respectful relationships are vital if people are going to enjoy their work and perform at their best. They strengthen cohesion, which is one of the conditions that needs to be present for TeamFlow to be experienced.
Respectful relationships – High quality connections
High quality connections are strong social relationships that develop through everyday interactions with others.
Respectful relationships – Empathy
Empathy is fundamental for building cohesion, camaraderie and respectful connections within teams.
Experiences of respectful relationships
In this activity, you’ll reflect on your own experiences of respectful relationships and identify actions you could take to strengthen respectful relationships within the team.
Week summary
This week we have been looking at the importance of respectful relationships as a way to create cohesion between team members; cohesion being one of the conditions that makes TeamFlow more likely.
Week 9
Platforms for Connection
Welcome to platforms for connection
In this activity, we start looking at platforms for connection as another way to create cohesion.
Platforms for Connection – Overview
In this activity, we learn why effective platforms for connection are important and how to effectively use these platforms.
Platforms for connection – Virtual inclusion
In this activity, we learn about some research-backed ways to create inclusive virtual environments.
Platforms for connection – Power of moments
In this activity, you will learn how the feeling of connection is amplified when these platforms are used to create powerful moments that help shape and sustain the identity of the team.
Platforms for connection experiences
In the following activity you’ll reflect on your own experiences of platforms for connection and identify actions you could take to use platforms effectively to contribute to team cohesion.
Week summary
In this activity, we take some time to reflect on what we’ve covered so far before we show you a short summary video with some key take-aways.
Week 10
Meaningful Communication
Welcome to meaningful communication
Welcome to this week about meaningful communication. This will help us on our journey to understanding how we can create the conditions for TeamFlow.
Meaningful communication – Overview
In this activity you will learn how positive, open and honest communication helps build cohesion and is a great way to increase the likelihood of TeamFlow.
Meaningful communication – Praise and strengths-based feedback
A strengths-based focus helps people understand their unique contribution and team motivators as well as supports meaningful communication.
Meaningful communication – Courage and vulnerability
In this activity, you will look at the emotional attitudes of courage and vulnerability and how they can result in improved meaningful communication within a team.
Meaningful communication experiences
In this activity, you will reflect on your own experiences of meaningful communication and identify actions you could take to contribute to meaningful communication within a team.
Course wrap up
Congratulations, you've made it to the final activity of the course. We will consolidate all the work we've done up to now in this final activity.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore the latest research around TeamFlow, covering theories related to positive human connection and the deep enjoyment of working together
- Explore ways to create the conditions for TeamFlow
- Describe the three conditions that make TeamFlow more achievable
- Demonstrate practical ways that these conditions can be created for any team
- Engage in activities to support personal development, wellbeing and performance
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone working in a team in any organisation. It would benefit those working at any level but particularly those in leadership or managerial positions.
Who will you learn with?
Who developed the course?
Bailey and French
We believe that work is more than something to pay the bills and should be a place that creates purpose in our lives, connect us with others, and provide daily opportunities to learn, grow, flourish, and thrive.
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