Strengthen Teams

Help your people work better together.

Strengthen how people communicate, handle disagreement, make decisions, and follow through on shared work. Russo Leadership offers facilitated programs and team development grounded in the work people do together.

Develop the practices of an existing team or help individuals contribute more effectively across teams.

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Trusted by teams across industries

  • Exelon
  • Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Beverly’s
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
  • Latino Community Center
  • Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
  • Neighborhood Learning Alliance
  • Casa San José
  • San Jose Sharks

Explore the programs

What would help your people work better together?

Start with the part of working together that needs attention. Explore each program to see its focus, who it serves, and how participants put the learning into practice.

Communication and working differences

Build a shared understanding.

Explore differences in communication, priorities, and working preferences. Use that understanding to discuss adjustments people can make in their everyday interactions.

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Responses to disagreement

Work through conflict more productively.

Examine familiar reactions when tension rises. Practice reframing unhelpful thoughts and choosing responses that support a more constructive conversation.

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Development for an intact team

Strengthen how your team works together.

Bring an existing team together to examine trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and collective results. Agree on changes to apply in the work members share.

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Contributions and coordination

Examine how work moves through your team.

Explore which kinds of work people find energizing or draining. Apply those insights to a real project, discussing contributions, handoffs, and how to coordinate from idea to completion.

Explore the team coordination program

The engagement

How the work happens.

Each engagement is shaped around your team’s shared work, current challenges, and goals. The focus and format depend on what the team needs to accomplish together.

  1. Clarify the need

    We begin with the team leader or sponsor to understand what is happening, what needs to change, and what the team can influence.

  2. Shape the engagement

    Together, we agree on the focus, participants, program or approach, and session format that fit the team’s needs.

  3. Prepare the team

    Participants complete relevant assessments or preparation and bring examples from their working relationships, meetings, or shared projects.

  4. Facilitate the work

    Guided discussion, reflection, and practice help the team examine how it works together and explore specific adjustments.

  5. Agree on changes and review

    The team makes specific commitments, names who will carry them forward, and agrees when to review progress in its everyday work.

Before the engagement ends, we agree how the team will practice and review its commitments. Additional facilitated follow-up can be included.

Client perspectives

What participants take from the experience.

We had lots of laughs, learned how to best utilize our results, and we now have a digital tool to guide us in best practices to work effectively, efficiently, and positively with one another.

Kashif Henderson Executive Director
Neighborhood Learning Alliance DiSC team session

Excerpts from participant feedback on previous team sessions.

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What needs to change in how your team works together?

Tell us what your team is working toward and where working together gets difficult. We’ll help you identify a useful starting point and discuss the program or scope that fits.

Let’s talk about your team

You don’t need to choose a program before we talk.