Team Effectiveness Tools

We empower individuals, teams, and organizations to operate at higher levels of effectiveness and performance. Our tools are time-tested, easy to apply, and designed for immediate impact.

Results-Driven

At Corentus, our team effectiveness tools help teams build real skills while driving real results. Whether it’s improving meeting effectiveness, decision-making, conflict resolution, or trust-building, our tools are easy to apply and designed for real-time use. Grounded in the Corentus Team Wheel framework, they help teams identify growth areas, take focused action, and embed lasting change. Practical, flexible, and built for real-time use, they support teams in making focused progress and embedding lasting change.

| Real Teams, Real Work, Real Results.

Boost capacity by reducing inefficiencies across teams. Leaders, teams, and the whole organization gain stronger cohesion, less burnout, and higher retention rates of top performers. Clients who work with us see immediate productivity gains in each team, creating more effective, high-functioning organizations.

As pioneers in team coaching, we observe teams in real time during actual work sessions, enabling teams to achieve real, tangible results - right away.

The Corentus Team Wheel™​
The Four Key Dimensions
of Team Effectiveness

Focus Areas Identified for Accelerated Development

Accelerated growth and development occur when a team decides upon their focus area, works together to elevate their skills and competencies in this area, and celebrates their achievements in attaining a level of proficiency together.

The Corentus Team Wheel with the Key Dimensions of Team Effectiveness guides teams to identify their focus areas for growth and development.

Choose from a list of highly impactful tools &
Choose how to engage with the tools.

Whether you’re looking for specific tools to meet a current need or exploring the best way to bring them into your team or organization, you have options. Choose from a curated list of high-impact tools, and decide how you want to access them: through live training, on-demand formats, internal facilitation, or licensed use. The right combination is up to you.

We offer a full library of 50+ tools. The following are five of the most widely used and impactful across our clients.

PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS

The Corentus team development tool, Productive Conversations, is a framework for enhancing communication effectiveness between individuals and within teams. It emphasizes understanding different communication patterns and their impact, aiming to equip individuals and teams with skills for constructive expression and response. The tool introduces the concept of "productive conversations" as clear, engaging, and connected exchanges grounded in facts and purpose. It explores the neuroscience behind effective communication, including prediction, energy efficiency, learned emotions, and synced systems in the brain. Furthermore, the tool differentiates between "hot" (reactive) and "clear" (intentional) thinking systems and offers techniques like pausing and reframing to promote the latter. It also addresses common barriers to clarity, such as noise (ambiguity, redundancy, contradiction) and non-factual language, and presents tools like "I" statements and ACE (Attention, Curiosity, Engagement) listening to foster better understanding and connection.

DECISION MAKING

Decision-making is a critical part of life and an essential part of working on or with teams. In this online learning course, we share the Corentus Decision Making team tool, refined through our work with client teams worldwide for nearly 30 years. This team tool provides a comprehensive, structured approach to optimizing the clarity and effectiveness of team decision-making. Key components of this tool include:

  • Decision Modes

  • Decision Mode Sequencing & Charting

  • Four-Stage Decision Process

  • Decision Methods

  • In -the-Moment Decision-Making Moves

Effective decision-making is critical while working with teams, but managing the process can be challenging. The Corentus Decision Making tool provides a structure and micro tools to consistently support positive outcomes. We honed this tool over 25+ years by integrating concepts, methods, and techniques from our research, training, and feedback from clients worldwide. Tried, tested, and refined with hundreds of teams from dozens of countries, Decision Making is a tool we’re proud to share and eager for you to leverage in your work with teams.

MEETING MASTERY

Consider the significant time your team invests in meetings each week. Is your team (and all the teams within your organization) making the most of this valuable time? Our tool offers a comprehensive set of practical techniques for planning and conducting team meetings that enhance accountability, efficiency, and follow-through. We cover various aspects, from meeting structure and roles to time management, engagement strategies, and feedback collection for continuous improvement.

In virtually any collaborative work setting, meetings play a vital role. The effectiveness of these meetings greatly impacts your team's overall performance, and that's precisely what our Corentus Meeting Mastery tool aims to improve. We've refined this tool from our extensive research, training, and global client feedback spanning over 25 years. We've translated intricate concepts into clear, straightforward language and distilled sophisticated methods into easy-to-follow guidelines. Meeting Mastery has been tested and perfected with teams worldwide, and we're here to share it with you to enhance your group and team collaboration.

Tried, tested, and refined through our work with client teams around the world for nearly 30 years, this tool provides a comprehensive set of best practices for optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of team meetings. Key components of this tool include:

  • Meeting Ownership

  • Meeting Planning

  • Work Session Roles

  • Facilitation Functions

  • Meeting Follow-Up

MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Mutual Accountability is a cornerstone of effective teamwork. Accountable team members generate respect, drive performance, and produce results. The key to success is establishing a process to ensure that clear, focused commitments are made and kept—and, in cases where they are not kept, are dealt with in a constructive, productive manner. With this tool, you’ll learn skills and tools to master every step of the accountability process, from initial action generation and agreement-making to execution, progress management, and follow-up.

Tried, tested, and refined through our work with client teams around the world for nearly 30 years, this tool provides a comprehensive set of best practices for generating respect, driving performance, and producing results. Key components of this tool include:

  • The Accountability Framework ​

  • Clear Request vs. Soft Asks​

  • TASTY Requests

  • Clear Commitments vs. Hedging​

  • Accountability Breakdown Protocol​

RACI AND DECISION MAKING (RACI-D)

This team tool provides a user-friendly introduction to the well-known RACI methodology, with several upgrades that bring new insights for even the most experienced RACI users.

One of our key upgrades is the expansion of RACI to include decision-making responsibilities through what we call RACI-D charting. This tool teaches how to use RACI-D charts to clearly define who is accountable, responsible, consulted, and informed for any activity or decision; how to refine decision responsibilities using decision modes; and how to avoid common errors (such as under- and over-involvement), using two quick RACI-D checklists.

Some of the most pervasive and persistent team challenges stem directly from lack of clarity around roles, responsibilities, and authority levels. Consequences range from inefficiencies (such as duplicated work or delayed execution) to destructive interpersonal conflicts. This tool provides a user-friendly introduction to the well-known RACI methodology, with a number of upgrades that bring new insights for even the most experienced RACI users. One of our key upgrades is the expansion of RACI to include decision-making responsibilities through what we call RACI-D charting.