The 4 Stages of a Team is a toolkit for team survival.

The Team Clock® method has been endorsed by internationally recognized leaders in sports, consumer products, professional services, education and healthcare seeking to improve business results and the wellness of their organizations.

The 4 Stages of a Team is a toolkit for team survival.

The Team Clock® method has been endorsed by internationally recognized leaders in sports, consumer products, professional services, education and healthcare seeking to improve business results and the wellness of their organizations.

Running a successful business involves people, processes and products. This book is about the people – written to support teams of people for sustained success.

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Welcome to The Center for Team Excellence

What is Team Clock®?

Team Clock® transforms teams, impacting company culture and morale. By identifying and addressing the obstacles interfering with performance, teams can spend more time focusing on their work and less time on the politics of their workplace. Team Clock gives teams the tools they need to adapt to change and repair themselves for the lifespan of the entity.

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How We Help

All relationships travel through cycles of growth and change. Whether it’s two people in a partnership, a team of people with a common goal or an organization with a mission, the living entity evolves through predictable stages. At the beginning, the team makes an INVESTMENT in a future together and carefully defines its direction. As the team becomes close and discovers how to work out differences, TRUST becomes the fuel for connection. The foundation of shared values and accountability becomes a platform for INNOVATION. This exploration creates change, which requires some DISTANCING to adjust to what has been lost, refuel and adapt to the new circumstances.

"Teams are messy. Conflict is unavoidable. Dynamics flow with the circumstances, mindsets, and emotions of the members involved. Graduates of top-tier schools are exceptional individual performers, but often struggle in teams."

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How We Do It

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Common Team Challenges
  • Workplace norms, mission alignment and conflict
  • Connection, trust and accountability
  • Leveraging diversity to innovate
  • Managing change
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Books
  • The 4 Stages of a Team
  • Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams
  • Useful Pain: Why Your Relationship Needs Struggle
  • Interpersonal Assessment Action Workbook
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Team Engagement
  • Team Wellness Packages
  • Coaching and Consulting
  • Speaking Engagements
  • Workshops
  • Online Assessment
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Certification
  • Become a Specialist
  • Become a Consultant
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Interpersonal
  • Interpersonal
  • Interpersonal Assessment

Organizational Nirvana

Which team is yours – Aging rock stars? Perpetual motion? Comfortably numb? Toxic? The Center for Team Excellence has a solution. Contact us today to get started with Team Clock® and learn how we can help your team rise to new heights.

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60 Seconds on the Team Clock

June 4, 2025

Your Most Trusted Teammate

What are the qualities of the coworker-connection with the teammate with whom you have the most trust? Do you know them well? Have you been through a few challenges together? Does your relationship chemistry just create a good vibe? For most of us, it’s all the above. Depending on the size of your work team, your connection to this trusted colleague may be the thing that brings you back to the grind on Monday morning when every bone in your body is aching for a change.

May 28, 2025

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Unprecedented macroeconomic pressures are creating vulnerability in nearly every industry. Public health workers face rising patient acuity with fewer resources. Medical research must be advanced without funding. Education can no longer honor diversity without disabling consequences. Law firms opting not to capitulate to the party line are blacklisted. Retail sellers must decide whether to eat costs or pass them on to their customers. Working class immigrants fear deportation threats. Supply chain ports must prepare for shrinking volumes. Auto manufacturers need to rethink where to buy parts to assemble their cars. Venture capitalists and private equity firms are having trouble finding investors willing to bet on the future. The list goes on. No industry is immune.

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