Cultivating Positive Team Culture: Workshop at TeachUp, May 2019

Ice breaker questions such as these ones help build vulnerability between people. This helps create a positive team culture.

I really enjoyed presenting at the Singapore International Schools TeachUp. Thanks to the participants who came along to my session about positive team culture. I have been encouraged recently by learning that team culture can be impacted by even one person delivering a steady stream of cues in three areas:

  1. Belonging
  2. Vulnerability
  3. Story

In the workshop I shared that these three areas were named for me in the book The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle. Some of the ideas are obvious but it’s valuable to have a structure within which to think about them.

In the workshop, we spent some time sharing ideas about creating culture by visiting stations around the room and talking with each other. A lot of good ideas were shared. The scanned sheets from the stations have been uploaded below.

Slides available here.

(Cookie recipe here.)

Blank table materials available here. Scanned table materials with participant’s contributions available here.

How would you create a positive culture in your team (or school)? Maybe you think the ideas are obvious, but naming them helps us remember to do them. Share here in the comments or tweet me @mathsfeedback.