Working Effectively in Small Teams (WEST)

WEST has been a cornerstone offering for over fifteen years, known for its effectiveness in aiding people to acquire the skillset necessary for working effectively in teams. Even though you’ll practice just a few hours per week, the acquisition of these skills is accelerated, allowing you to more rapidly leverage these skills in real life situations.

WEST’s hands-on approach ensures that you don’t just read and talk about teamwork – you learn by doing it, building competence and confidence along the way.

FAQs

  • The WEST program is a remote, individual and team learning experience designed to support you to actively develop and refine the Working Effectively with Others skill set. Similar to our Working with Others program, you will increase your ability to:

    • Coordinate more effectively with others, including by making more effective requests, compelling offers and essential declarations whenever necessary.

    • Share, listen and explore assessments for the sake of defining what you can do with others to take care of existing concerns.

    • Evaluate, build and restore trust in your relationships.

    • Navigate moods, including the ability to identify and to take actions that help you accomplish what you care to accomplish in specific situations.

    • Cultivate confidence and serenity in the face of the unknown.

    What makes WEST unique is the incorporation of virtual learning labs where teams practice these skills together.

  • Over the course of 3.5 months you’ll engage with:

    1. Learning Modules. WEST is composed of twelve modules, each carefully crafted with relevant readings, videos and exercises that build on each other to support the acquisition of new skills and sensibilities.

    2. Exercises. Similar to Working with Others, you’ll also have access to our exclusive Plural AI-assisted gyms and guides support you in the ongoing practice necessary for developing Working Effectively with Others skill set. These include exercises designed to refine coordination skills and sensibilities, as well as navigating restrictive moods that commonly emerge in teams – like resignation, distrust and overwhelm, and to cultivate more expansive moods – like confidence, resolution and trust.

    3. Virtual Learning Labs. In addition, you’ll engage in virtual learning labs with an assigned team. The WEST program leverages a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) in which teams practice and acquire new skills together. A member of the Plural team will join you for the exercises and participate in the debriefs.

    4. Group and individual sessions with a Plural coach. Once a month, a senior member of the Plural team will conduct a group session to check in with all participants and to practice additional conversational exercises together. In addition, during the program, you’ll meet with a Plural coach for three individual conversations (or more if you request them).

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“The things I learned in WEST improved my relationships not only with my staff, peers and superiors, but also my family, and perhaps most importantly with myself.”

— Seb, Division Head