Become a powerful collaborative team
​that can do pretty much anything! 

Team
​Vitality Day

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Vital Team
​Program

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Team Restorative Process

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Team Vitality Day
One Day to Connect, Clarify and Create

The Team Vitality Day is a fun, yet effective way to bring your whole team together, get aligned, connected and recharged.
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For one day, take a pause from the daily grind. Catch up with each other.
Remember what you're here to create, and move forward together - as a team.

​The Team Vitality Day is shot of energy and connection for your team. We'll take you through a unique experiential process that moves you forward, whether you are facing challenges or just need the time to connect. Your team will be strengthened and your unique magic catalyzed.

We designed our Team Vitality Day to meet the conflicting demands of "we need time to connect" and "we're too busy to step away for a retreat." We have a pretty big tool box at Aurum, but for this program we distilled it down to what's essential, to take a team as far as possible in one day.

You might find you and your team love the work we do so much that you want more, and we'll be happy to oblige. But for now, let's just take one day and see what we can get done. 

Aurum's Team Vitality Day will help you: 
​● ​Get to know each other in authentic and meaningful new ways
● ​Slow down, take a breath and connect with your team 
● Create greater cohesion, unity and collaboration
● Support and challenge yourselves and each other 
● Identify where things have been stuck, and get things moving in the right direction
● Operate with greater connection and compassion within the team
● Uplevel your ability to create, innovate and collaborate ​

Especially impactful for remote and hybrid teams, a Team Vitality Day builds connection, resilience and understanding that translates into more engagement and effective collaboration over many months

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Ideal opportunities to do a Team Vitality Day

There are certain moments in the life cycle of a team that doing an intentional alignment process such as the Team Vitality Day is particularly potent:

• New leadership 
• New team members being integrated
• Before significant challenges such as huge projects, re-orgs, deadlines, etc
• After a setback, failure or loss
• During times of stress and overwhelm
  (you'll think you don't have the time, but this one day will save you days of wasted time and resources)
• Any inflection point, such as: changed scope or assignment, new strategic direction, mergers, etc.
• End of cycle: end of year, quarter or project
• When conflict, resentment or frustration build up on the team
• For times of crisis, or a breakdown of the relationships on the team, contact us about the Team Restorative Process.

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Aurum Vital Team Program
An Aligned Team is an Unstoppable Force

The Aurum Vital Team - When talented and passionate people come together to lead an organization or a project, it's inevitable that disagreements will arise.
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​The Aurum Vital Team program will harness the power of your differences, so the full contribution and voice of every member drives the vision forward. 

The power of your team lies at the intersection of Individuals (Self), Relationships, and Action

While all these domains are implicitly at play at any given moment, most organizations focus their attention and development efforts primarily on the Action domain. What we know is that Vital Teams harness the power and synergy of all three domains. 

Our integrated VITAL TEAM MODEL is a roadmap that describes the six dimensions of a successful, vital team. Every group will have its areas of strength, and areas of limitation or challenge. The Vital Team Program adapts the curriculum to each unique team to meet you where you are and provide support and training where it’s needed most. 

Whatever you are doing as a team is important. It needs ALL of you to be fully contributing to the mission. Learning to work together, handle conflict well and find creative solutions everyone gets behind is the key to your success. 

Our customizable program adapts to where you are

We have three versions of the program, based on your team's situation and area of focus:
VITAL Team Launch Program
For a new team coming together - ideal for merged teams, start ups, and newly formed leadership teams. Develop positive frameworks to prevent common pitfalls.
An insurance policy to set up the team for success.  

VITAL Team Reboot Program
For a team that is already functioning, but needs a fresh perspective or is challenged in some way. Could be a change of team members, mergers and acquisitions or or challenges with conflict, alignment or communication.
This process gives the system a reset. 

VITAL Team Development Program
For teams navigating times of growth and change - When ‘what got you here won’t get you there’, it’s time to upgrade, develop new skills and expand the team’s capacities.
​For teams ready to uplevel and grow.

How your team functions has far reaching long-term impact

.The most common thing we hear at Aurum from teams we work with is, "I wish we would have done this sooner." Indeed, many disasters, frustrations, burnouts and financial losses can be prevented, but get delayed by common team misconceptions:

• Most teams underestimate the impact of their dysfunction on the rest of the organization, clients, partners, etc.
• Most teams think they will just 'figure it out' on their own, and only ask for support when they hit a wall.
• Most teams are full of smart, capable people who are performing at a much lower level than they are capable of because of negative team dynamics, (aka "smart people doing dumb things").
• Most teams are amazed at how much better things get- operationally, financially, creatively, and relationally-when they start functioning more honestly and supportively as a team.

When teams take on the skills they learn in the Vital Team program, these models, skills and tools become staples for years to come - creating alignment, clarity and focus. These changes yield dramatic improvement in productivity and cohesion, often becoming a model team that others want to learn from and emulate.

As the team improves its communication skills, ability to learn, problem solve and engage in healthy, honest debate, these changes generate waves of positive engagement throughout the organization, uplifting everyone involved.

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Ragu Bhargava,
​CEO Global Upside

The Vital Team program helped us to become a real team. Finally we learned to understand and value one another's perspectives. Now, when an issue is raised, everybody around the table feels they have space to voice their opinion. The improved communication has been crucial in our dramatic increase in revenue and make the company attractive for potential buyers ” 

- Alicia Stiving
​CCO, ServiceMaster

Aurum has helped our leadership team create a common vocabulary, enhance our leadership toolbox, and broken down barriers 30+ years in the making. We are operating more synergistically, and the rest of our organization sees and feels it.

- ​Jewel Brighten

Some of the most valuable things I’ve learned are listening with curiosity and respect to differing views and the importance of speaking and sharing my own perspective.
​It has been so empowering!

Linda Wisneski,
​Estes Valley Library

Communication is key to everything! This training will contribute to our growth as we each use the tools we've been given. Toes will not be stepped on, feelings will not be hurt, and crucial conversations will be had all because we learned how.  I would say that even if you feel everyone in your organization communicates effectively all the time, you need this training. It will only enhance everyone who attends. Our coach was simply fantastic!

Vital Team for Executive Leadership Teams

The Vital Team Program has a particular potency for Leadership Teams. Because the top leaders and how they function become the template for the rest of the organization, any limitations or rifts on the team have an exponential impact on everyone downstream.

If you want to change your organizational culture, it has to start at the top. The Vital Team Program helps leadership teams:

• Become ONE unified team
• Have the real meeting IN the meeting
• Create clarity and strategic alignment for entire organization
• Have honest, open, difficult disagreements, and choose a path forward with all relevant information on the table
• Empower each other to do what they do best
• Become far more creative, innovative and resilient
• Develop powerful partnership and support
• Achieve extraordinary results​
• Have way more fun!

"What a fantastic year!
We could not have done this without Aurum" ...

​Every leadership team that has done this program has seen dramatic growth of their business. We regularly hear about breakthroughs, innovations and business results that clients directly correlate to the work they have done with Aurum Leadership. Some examples : 

• One team saw 5x revenue growth and almost tripled the size of the organization within 2-3 years.
  
• A leadership team with deep conflicts turned around and guided the company through successful acquisition with lucrative exit for everyone.
• A partnership on the brink of collapse rebounded with renewed creativity to expand into new markets.

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Team Restorative Process
Get Through the Crisis Stronger Than Ever

When things fall apart, we will help you find a way through

For teams in crisis, or when there is a significant relationship breakdown between 2 or more team members, we start with the Aurum Restorative Process. This powerful process gets you back on track, to a place where you can problem-solve and move forward. 

We can move quickly and jump into messy situations right away when necessary. 

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​How does it work?

The Aurum Restorative Process is a unique blend of team coaching, restorative justice and conflict resolution. It is useful for individuals as well as teams, and can applied in a wide range of situations. 
​The process works in 3 stages:

1. We Show Up: 
The initial stages will include key conversations, interviews, and making a plan of action. We'll make recommendations and collaborate with you to design a progression that meets you and your team where you are. 

2. Restorative Conversations:
At the heart of the Restorative Process are several tried and true methods, designed to facilitate healing and repair. This work is always facilitated, and highly structured, to create safety, honesty and transformative space for speaking, listening, understanding impact, and moving forward. 

3.  Create a New Future:
After moving through the acute stages of crisis, we'll work with you and your team to design the future, and ensure similar breakdowns do not reoccur. We'll provide training and facilitate the co-creation of a new and more resilient team or relationship.  

More About the Restorative Process

Common situations that call for a Team Restorative Process:

• Breakdown or conflict between co-founders or leaders
• Family business dynamics between parents and children, spouses, siblings or other family members
• After dismissal of team leader
• Lawsuits, infractions or unethical conduct
• Team members not speaking to each other, avoidance, etc
• Cultural rifts between team members in different geographies
• Conflict between board members, board and CEO, etc