The Corentus Team Frameworks
Our three team frameworks, developed and refined through years of research and hands-on experience, provide a solid foundation for diagnosing and addressing a wide array of team challenges.
Simple structures underlying broader team concepts.
The Corentus Team Wheel™
A detailed road map for assessing a team and for helping it move forward, pinpointing the specific changes most likely to help the team grow, develop and transform.
For every focus area of the Team Wheel, we offer a set of practical tools—easy-to-implement frameworks and practices designed to improve team performance in that domain. Many of these tools can be combined to obtain a solid understanding of a complete focus area such as Common Purpose & Performance Goals, Roles & Competencies, Mutual Accountability and Collaboration and Cohesion.
The Corentus Team Life Cycle™
A six-stage model detailing how teams’ mindsets, relationships, and capabilities develop and change over time.
Teams, like individual human beings, develop and change over time. The Team Life Cycle synthesizes the group development research of Bruce Tuckman, Susan Wheelan, and others into a comprehensive six-stage model. We help leaders and teams develop awareness of the mindsets, capabilities, and challenges characteristic of each of the six stages, with dynamic applications to their own teams.
The Corentus Team Operating Modes™
An exploration of five ways leadership and accountability can be distributed within a team.
We assist leaders and teams in recognizing five basic operating modes—on a spectrum from minimally collaborative (directed by one authoritative leader) to fully collaborative (self-directed)—together with the benefits and challenges of each. A team’s primary operating mode(s) will affect how it handles each area of the Team Wheel.
The Corentus Team Leadership Model.
The Corentus Team Leadership Model orients leaders as the catalyst for group and team performance. Using the Corentus Team Wheel™ as a guide, the model equips leaders to understand the competencies and pragmatic behaviors that enable effective teaming.