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TeamDynamics
DeepDive
See the patterns. Shift the dynamics. Strengthen your team.
Build the habits and awareness that help your team work better, together.
Senior teams often don’t fail because of lack of talent, they stall because of unspoken dynamics, misaligned expectations, and pressure that pushes people into default behavioural patterns.
The TeamDynamics DeepDive is a focussed experience designed to help leadership and functional teams surface what’s really going on beneath the surface, so they can move forward with greater understanding, trust, and momentum.
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What’s beneath the surface shapes everything above it...
The TeamDynamics DeepDive experience
We bring over a decade of experience helping senior teams speak openly about the dynamics that shape how they work, surfacing tensions, differences, and unspoken habits in ways that are honest, constructive, and often surprisingly energising. This experience offers a practical way to uncover and work with these dynamics, creating space for deeper understanding, renewed connection, and better ways of working together.
What it involves
Discovery and Intention Session
Explore focus, needs and what you're noticing.
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Individual Profiling
Each team member completes a Structural Dynamics assessment
Team Map & Insights
A clear visual of the team's tendancies and hotspots
Facilitated Lab Session
A full day guided group exploration, reflection with practical tools
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What is the Structural Dynamics Assessment?
While we’re generally cautious about the use of diagnostic tools, we’ve found the Structural Dynamics assessment, based on the work of David Kantor, to offer a uniquely powerful way into conversations about group dynamics.
This assessment helps individuals and teams make sense of the patterns in their communication, especially under pressure or in high-stakes situations. It highlights the roles people tend to adopt in group settings and how those roles interact, often unconsciously.
By mapping both the behavioural (what’s said) and structural (what’s beneath the surface) dynamics, it offers insight into how things move, or get stuck, within a team.
What it offers
The TeamDynamics DeepDive is for senior teams who want to:
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Improve how they communicate and work together, especially under pressure
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Surface hidden dynamics that slow down decision-making or erode trust
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Work with conflict more constructively
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Move from reactive to intentional ways of leading together
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Build a stronger foundation for strategy, delivery and change
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The Difference It Made
Fun, insightful, useful
The session we had was a great opportunity to think about how we work together and what we need to be more thoughtful of in order to improve our effectiveness going forward.
Chair, YPO Parenting NetworkGreg Kaufman
Highly Recommended!
We had an insightful, practical and engaging Structural Dynamics workshop. It brought the group closer together while equipping them with more awareness and clarity to work with their teams and wider communities more effectively.
Academy of Chief ExecutivesGlenn Watkins
Helped us talk about the real stuff
This session and the use of the profiles, allowed us to talk about the dynamics in our team that we'd perhaps avoided or couldn't confidently speak to. This unlocked some very valuable conversations.
Team LeadConstruction Company
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Three different ways to get into your Team Dynamics
Team Dynamics
DeepDive Lite
A focused session to help your team explore how you're working together, and what could improve.
Perfect as a one-off or part of a team retreat, it's ideal for teams looking to build trust, address tension, and strengthen collaboration.
Includes:
- Discovery call to understand your context
- Individual profile assessments
- Facilitated interactive discovery session (in-person or virtual)
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Summary of insights and next steps
Contact us for pricing
Team Dynamics
DeepDive +
A deeper intervention for teams ready to go further in understanding how they work together, and how they could work better.
Combining individual insights with team-level reflection
Includes:
- Discovery call to understand your context
- Individual profile assessments
- Facilitated interactive discovery session (in-person or virtual)
- Individual profile debrief per person
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Follow up team integration session
Contact us for pricing
TeamDynamics
Partnership
A year-long partnership to strengthen team effectiveness over time.
We work alongside your leadership or functional team as an embedded thought partner, supporting trust, alignment, and performance as challenges evolve.
Includes:
- Initial discovery and context-setting with key team members
- Individual and team assessment to surface key dynamics
- Individual profile debriefs
- Facilitated interactive discovery session (in-person or virtual)
- A tailored rhythm of facilitated sessions across the year
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Ongoing access to a RISE consultant for thought partnership and support
Contact us to explore what this could look like for your team.
Not sure which suits your team best?
We’ll help shape the right entry point for your context, get in touch and we’ll create an approach together.
Book Your Complementary 30-Minute Call
Let’s explore what support you're looking and whether the TeamDynamics DeepDive is a good fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why Structural Dynamics over all the other assessments out there?
We’re cautious about the limits of any assessment. No tool can fully capture the complexity of human interaction. What matters is how we use the insights to open up conversation, not to label or box people in. Structural Dynamics helps teams do just that: it’s a starting point for deeper dialogue.
Most assessments tell you what people are like, personality types, strengths, preferences. Structural Dynamics tells you how people behave in conversation, especially under pressure or in moments of uncertainty. It focuses on real-time interaction, not static traits. That means your team doesn’t just gain insight, they get a shared language to talk about what’s happening in the moment and practical ways to shift unhelpful patterns.
What will my team actually walk away with?
A clearer understanding of the communication patterns driving your team, a shared language to talk about them, and practical steps to shift unhelpful habits.
Will this feel like group therapy or personal feedback in public?
Not at all. The DeepDive is practical, structured, and focused on how the team functions as a system, not singling out individuals. It creates space for honest reflection without pointed judgment or blame.
Can we integrate this into an existing leadership or strategy session?
Yes, and it can add real value. We can tailor the DeepDive to fit into away days, offsites, or broader team development plans.
What size and type of team is this best for?
It works best for senior or intact leadership teams of around 4–10 people who work together regularly and have shared accountability for outcomes.
Is this about fixing team dysfunction?
Not exactly. This isn’t about diagnosing what’s broken and prescribing a fix. It’s about creating space to pay closer attention to how your team is interacting in real time, especially under pressure. The Lab helps surface the subtle, often unconscious patterns that shape how you work together, so you can make more intentional choices, not just default to habit. It’s not about fixing; it’s about seeing, naming, and working with what’s already there.