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.
How We Do It
Common Team Challenges
Books
Team Engagement
Interpersonal
Certification
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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.
Read Steve Ritter’s Feature on Forbes.com
“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.”
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.
60 Seconds on the Team Clock
Blow-off Day
Recently, I was stood up three times within 24 hours. Not surprisingly, I reacted differently to each one. After blow-off #1, I laughed and moved on with my day. Blow-off #2 triggered frustration, and I muttered some variation of “What the heck?!” Blow-off #3 altered the quality of my relationship with the partner because trust and respect were damaged. These differences were not due to the growing succession of frustrations that unfolded as the day wore on – they were fitting reactions to the distinct nature of each blow-off. Let’s walk through three scenarios (‘$#!T Happens,’ ‘Character Flaw,’ and ‘Rude’):
Your Self-Improvement Challenge for 2026
There’s no universal elixir for life’s challenges – because your life isn’t like anyone else’s. What shapes your growth isn’t just what happens to you, but how you manage these circumstances and engage with the environment around you. The goal is personal wellness as defined by an evolving mastery of your…
Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk
Personal traits sometimes fall out of their sweet spots and cease to be helpful qualities. Take, for example, the colleague who goes out of their way to show interest in others but reveals little about themselves. His conversations feel more like interviews than dialogues. Rather than being seen as gracious, he’s at risk of being experienced as closed-off or withholding. His inclination for generosity misses its sweet spot, and its intended effect falls flat. The examples are endless. Let’s review a few.