90 minutes · Live online · Future Skills 101
Great teams aren't built on process. They're built on people.
Led by Arnoud Koning, Global Business Services Director at Procter & Gamble and a design thinking coach, this session works through three layers: yourself, the people around you and the team you build together.
Before you book
Two minutes on what the session actually covers and who it's for.
The problem
Most team advice starts with workflows, tools and meeting cadences. It rarely starts with the people actually doing the work, or how they experience each other.
Your personality traits and biases shape every exchange you have, whether or not you've ever named them.
"Be more empathetic" is common advice and rarely useful, because there's more than one kind of empathy and most teams only use one.
Most teams have no shared way to talk about their own dynamics until something has already gone wrong.
Stronger collaboration starts with understanding yourself, then the people around you, then the team.
The core idea
Three layers: yourself, the people around you, the team.
Built on design thinking principles, this session moves from individual self-awareness to value exchanges with the people directly around you and finally to the health of the team as a whole.
How it works
The 90 minutes are the middle. What happens either side is what makes them stick.
No pre-work worksheet. Watch the two-minute intro above if you like, then just show up ready to think about your own team.
Optional, before the sessionArnoud Koning leads you through personality and leadership assessments, deep-sea-currents thinking, different types of empathy, team value networks, team personality and team health, live.
90 minutes, live onlineTake your certificate, then bring what you've learned back to your team, or go further with a private session using your own team's dynamics.
Optional · ongoingWhat you take away
This is an introduction and it's honest about that. Ninety minutes buys you the fundamentals of people-focused teamwork, which is more than most courses manage in a day.
Understand the personality traits, biases and characteristics that shape how you show up with others.
101Recognise the different types of empathy at play in your day-to-day interactions and use the right one.
101Map how value actually moves between people on your team, not just how the org chart says it should.
101Get a shared vocabulary for team personality and team health you can use again after the session ends.
101Who it's for
What people notice
They notice that you:
And afterwards
Everyone who attends gets a Future Skills Certificate for People Focused Teamwork 101, shareable on LinkedIn and one tile in a collection that grows as you take more of the series.
Want Arnoud to run this for your whole team, using your own team's dynamics as the material? Ask on the day, or get in touch.
Practical details
Want it for your whole team, in your own context? Get in touch.
Dates & booking
Pick a date below, or ask us to schedule one. Confirmation and a calendar invite arrive straight away.
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Want it for your own team? Every Future Skills 101 course is also available bespoke and in-house on a date that suits you. Get in touch to set it up.