High-Performance Team Building
The Cohesion Code
Build teams that trust, challenge and deliver, clarity, candor, craft and celebration, with rituals, RACI clarity and trust systems that survive growth.
Who it is for: New and seasoned managers, team leads, and project leads responsible for team output and morale.
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What You Will Learn
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- Diagnose your team with the Cohesion Code audit (Clarity, Candor, Craft, Celebration)
Day 1, The Cohesion Code Audit
Score your team 1-5 on the four forces, Clarity, Candor, Craft, Celebration, with evidence rules that stop self-flattery, and name which of the three theatre patterns your last team-building effort wore: Ritual Retreat, Personality Parade, or Perk Patch.
ChatGPTClaude - Set goals and roles so clear that politics evaporate
Days 2-3, The Three-Layer Goal & Ownership Sentences
Rebuild your goal as sentence, scoreboard pair, and done, then write every role as an Ownership Sentence: outcome, decision class, evidence, boundary, with the Role Fit Review that matches people to roles they can win, so politics loses its food supply.
ChatGPTNotion AI - Install RACI-in-Real-Time for decisions and ownership
Day 4, RACI-in-Real-Time
The ninety-second decision ritual: name the decision, assign R and A out loud, cap Consulted at two with reasons, log one line, decisions audited by a live camera instead of a kickoff chart that went stale in week two.
SlackNotion AI - Run candor rituals: feedback, dissent and healthy conflict
Days 5-6, The SBI+ Loop & the Dissent Protocol
Feedback in four minutes, Situation, camera-visible Behavior, Impact, plus a testable Ask, flowing both directions weekly; then the Dissent Protocol: framed decisions, an assigned rotating skeptic, a five-minute case-against, and a revisit trigger that makes disagree-and-commit honest.
ChatGPTClaude - Grow craft with skill matrices and pairing plans
Days 7-8, The Skill Matrix & Meetings That Build
The one-page capability grid with evidence-ruled 0-3 scores, the bus-factor audit that ranks your single-point failures by pain-if-gone, and the Meeting Redesign Protocol: every recurring meeting assigned one job, decide, create, connect, inform, with the pure-inform ones converted to docs and the deaths publicized.
MiroGoogle Docs - Celebrate in ways that reinforce behavior, not just mood
Day 9, Behavior-Win Pairs & the Praise Ladder
Recognition as steering: every celebration names the observable behavior and the win it produced, on a four-rung ladder from private word to organizational stage, with the peer-nomination wheel that frees recognition from your bandwidth and the cynicism test that keeps praise verifiable.
SlackChatGPT - Rebuild trust after conflict or failure (Trust Battery Model)
Days 10-12, The Trust Battery, Repair & Remote Cohesion
The third spine framework: every pair holds a charge, five deposits, five drains, logistics as the reading, then the Rebuild Sequence (own, restore, renegotiate, prove) for the batteries that hit zero, and the Async-by-Design conversion that delivers all four forces across timezones.
ChatGPTNotion AI - Scale culture through onboarding and rituals that stick
Days 13-15, Onboarding, the Five Dials & the Team Charter
The 30-Day Transfer that teaches new hires the culture you meant, clarity week one, first win week two, the culture buddy, the day-30 mirror, then the Five-Dial panel with guardrail pairs, and the capstone: seven charter sections on one page plus the 90-day installation rhythm and the eight objections rehearsed.
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Inside the Course
The engine behind every single day, hover (or tap) any card to see exactly what is included.
15 Days × 90 Min
A complete guided journey, one focused session a day, fully interactive, zero fluff.
Copy-Paste Prompt Vault
A professional prompt vault in every day, copy, paste, get results. Prompts become your assets.
Fully Engaging Workbooks
Interactive in-app workbooks with auto-save, plus fillable PDF, Word and printable versions.
Real-World Missions
Every exercise uses your actual job context, not toy examples. Practice while you learn.
Progress That Shows Everything
A living dashboard tracks every section, quiz and workbook field, and flags what is missing.
Certificate of Completion
Finish the journey and graduate with an official ZLearning certificate for your resume and LinkedIn.
Day-by-Day: Key Highlights
Exactly what happens on each day of your 15-day journey, hover (or tap) any day to see the full detail. Each day blends interactive lessons, a prompt vault, hands-on missions on your real work, a workbook and a knowledge quest, days unlock in sequence.
The Cohesion Code Audit
Day 1 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See the group-team gap
- Install the Cohesion Code
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The Cohesion Code Audit
- See the group-team gap, Understand why a payroll of talented individuals is not a team, and why most team-building spend (retreats, pizza, personality tests) never touches the four forces that actually produce cohesion.
- Install the Cohesion Code, Learn the four-force model, Clarity, Candor, Craft, Celebration, what each one produces, and what its absence reliably looks like on a real team.
- Audit your team honestly, Score your team 1-5 on every force with evidence, not vibes, and find the weakest C, the one that is silently capping everything else.
- Map the 15-day system, See the full journey, goals, roles, RACI, feedback, conflict, craft, meetings, trust, repair, remote work, onboarding, metrics, and how today's audit feeds your Day 15 Team Charter.
Clarity: Goals That Align Themselves
Day 2 · 90 min · 8 sections
- Diagnose unstateable goals
- Install the Three-Layer Goal
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Clarity: Goals That Align Themselves
- Diagnose unstateable goals, Learn the two-question test, what are we trying to make true, and how would we know, and why teams that fail it drift into politics, rework, and quiet private goals.
- Install the Three-Layer Goal, Build goals in three layers: the sentence (what changes, for whom, by when), the scoreboard (the two numbers that move), and done (what finished means). Each layer kills a different failure mode.
- Run the Alignment Interview, Master the five-question interview that tests whether your team's understanding matches yours, without another all-hands meeting or a slide deck.
- See drift early, Set the weekly two-minute drift check that catches goal erosion in week one instead of at the quarterly review.
Roles & Ownership Without Politics
Day 3 · 90 min · 8 sections
- Diagnose ownership fog
- Write Ownership Sentences
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Roles & Ownership Without Politics
- Diagnose ownership fog, Spot the four symptoms of role ambiguity, duplicated work, orphaned work, decision ping-pong, and consensus-sapping 'everyone owns it', and trace each back to its missing sentence.
- Write Ownership Sentences, Master the three-clause form, I own [outcome], I decide [decision class], I am judged by [evidence], that makes ownership provable instead of asserted.
- Run the Role Fit Review, Match people to roles using the skill-will-energy triangle, and learn the four verdicts, confirm, stretch, move, split, and when each is honest.
- Protect the boundary, Publish each role's Not-My-Desk clause so collaboration happens by invitation, not by occupation, and politics loses its food supply.
RACI-in-Real-Time Workshop
Day 4 · 90 min · 8 sections
- Master the four letters
- Run it in real time
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RACI-in-Real-Time Workshop
- Master the four letters, Know exactly what R, A, C, I mean, and the two fatal confusions (R-A split, multi-A disease) that turn most RACI charts into fiction.
- Run it in real time, Learn the ninety-second decision ritual: name the decision, assign the four letters out loud, record one line, before the meeting moves on.
- Fix the C-trap, Diagnose Consulted-gone-viral, the decision that gathers nine opinions and ships nothing, and apply the two-C rule.
- Build your Decision Log, Set up the one-line log that makes decisions auditable: decision, R, A, date, review trigger, and the Friday read that keeps it alive.
Candor: Feedback Rituals
Day 5 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See silence as a system
- Install the SBI+ Loop
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Candor: Feedback Rituals
- See silence as a system, Trace team silence to its three system causes, feedback equals drama, timing is always wrong, and nothing changes when people do speak, and own your share of each.
- Install the SBI+ Loop, Master the four-part ritual, Situation, Behavior, Impact, Ask, that strips judgment out of feedback while keeping the stakes visible.
- Run bidirectional feedback, Open the reverse channel: ask your team for feedback on you with questions that make it safe and specific, and survive the answer gracefully.
- Make it a rhythm, Set the weekly cadence, small, frequent, low-ceremony, that replaces the dreaded quarterly reveal with Tuesday maintenance.
Healthy Conflict & Dissent
Day 6 · 90 min · 8 sections
- Separate the two conflicts
- Run the Dissent Protocol
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Healthy Conflict & Dissent
- Separate the two conflicts, Distinguish task conflict (about ideas, performance fuel) from relationship conflict (about people, performance poison), and learn why low-conflict teams are usually low-trust teams in costume.
- Run the Dissent Protocol, Master the four-step protocol, frame the decision, assign the skeptic, time the challenge, record the call, that makes dissent structural instead of social.
- Assign the skeptic, Rotate the dissent role so challenge belongs to everyone by turn, and nobody pays a relationship price for pointing at the emperor.
- Read your conflict budget, Diagnose your team's position, artificial harmony, personal attack, constructive conflict, or indifference, and know the one move that shifts it.
Craft: Skill Matrices & Pairing
Day 7 · 90 min · 8 sections
- End capability folklore
- Build the skill matrix
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Craft: Skill Matrices & Pairing
- End capability folklore, See how 'everyone knows Maria handles the invoicing' is a liability dressed as efficiency, and why unwritten capability is a resignation waiting to happen.
- Build the skill matrix, Master the one-page matrix: the 6-8 craft skills your team actually needs, each person scored 0-3, with evidence rules that keep it honest.
- Run the bus-factor audit, Find the skills only one person holds, rank them by pain-if-gone, and pick the two worth de-risking this quarter.
- Install pairing, Set the pairing cadence, teach-one-thing sessions with a rotate-the-expert rule, so knowledge moves on purpose, not in exit interviews.
Meetings That Build (Not Drain)
Day 8 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See the meeting tax
- Assign each meeting a job
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Meetings That Build (Not Drain)
- See the meeting tax, Measure what status theater actually costs, in hours, in context-switching, in the deep-work it fragments, and why more meetings feel safer but perform worse.
- Assign each meeting a job, Master the four job types, decide, create, connect, inform, and the rule that a meeting with two jobs does neither well.
- Run the Redesign Protocol, Apply the five-step protocol to your recurring calendar: inventory, job-assign, kill-or-convert, redesign, publicize the deaths.
- Rebuild the weekly, Design the one team meeting that feeds all four forces, clarity on the scoreboard, dissent on one decision, recognition named, in forty-five minutes.
Celebration That Reinforces Behavior
Day 9 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See recognition as steering
- Master the Behavior-Win Pair
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Celebration That Reinforces Behavior
- See recognition as steering, Understand the reinforcement loop, what gets celebrated gets repeated, and why generic praise ('great job everyone') reinforces nothing but noise.
- Master the Behavior-Win Pair, Attach every recognition to the observable conduct that produced it, naming the behavior is what turns applause into instruction.
- Build the praise ladder, Design recognition in four rungs, private word, peer channel, team meeting, organizational stage, and learn which behavior belongs on which rung.
- Make it survive busy seasons, Set the minimum viable ritual, the two-named-wins rule and the peer-nomination slot, that keeps celebration alive when everything else is on fire.
The Trust Battery: Reading & Charging
Day 10 · 90 min · 8 sections
- Install the Trust Battery
- Read the signals
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The Trust Battery: Reading & Charging
- Install the Trust Battery, Learn the model: each pair of people holds a charge level shaped by deposits and withdrawals, and work moves at the speed of the lowest battery in the chain.
- Read the signals, Diagnose charge levels from observable behavior, message tone, meeting deference, the questions people stop asking, before the low-battery warning becomes an exit interview.
- Charge deliberately, Master the five deposit events, kept promises, owned misses, defended interests, shared context, delivered advocacy, and their matching drains.
- Budget the charge, Plan your recharge schedule: the pairs running low, the deposit each needs, and the calendar slot that makes trust maintenance routine instead of reactive.
Repair: Rebuilding After Conflict
Day 11 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See the 48-hour window
- Run the Rebuild Sequence
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Repair: Rebuilding After Conflict
- See the 48-hour window, Understand why unaddressed drains harden fast, the story in their head becomes the official record within days, and late repair reads as PR, not remorse.
- Run the Rebuild Sequence, Master the four moves in order: own (specific, no defense), restore (make the other side whole), renegotiate (change the agreement so it cannot recur), prove (small kept promises, visibly).
- Repair in public where it broke in public, Match the audience to the drain, public withdrawal, public deposit, and know when a private repair is actually a second insult.
- Read the repair signals, Know the three signs the repair is landing, and the two signs it is failing, which usually mean a skipped sequence step.
Remote & Hybrid Cohesion
Day 12 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See the proximity assumptions
- Run Async-by-Design
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Remote & Hybrid Cohesion
- See the proximity assumptions, Find the practices that only work when everyone is in the room, hallway clarity, overheard context, mood-read feedback, and what replaces each at distance.
- Run Async-by-Design, Master the conversion: decisions as written proposals with deadline windows, status as docs, meetings reserved for what genuinely needs a room.
- Rebuild the four forces remote, Redesign each force for distribution: the always-visible scoreboard, the written SBI+ Loop, the public matrix, the channel-based celebration.
- Set the anchor rituals, Choose the few synchronous moments, the weekly all-hands rhythm, the pair rotations, the quarterly gathering, that carry the social load for everything async.
Onboarding as Culture Transfer
Day 13 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See the real curriculum
- Build the 30-Day Transfer
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Onboarding as Culture Transfer
- See the real curriculum, Understand that new hires learn from what you do, not what you say, the unreproducible goal, the swallowed feedback, the uncelebrated win all get copied on day one.
- Build the 30-Day Transfer, Master the four-week arc: clarity (goal, role sentence, scoreboard) in week one, first win in week two, connection in week three, ownership in week four.
- Install the culture buddy, Choose and brief the peer who decodes the unwritten rules, how meetings really run, who to ask what, which norm is real, separate from the manager relationship.
- Close the loop, Run the day-30 interview that audits your own culture through fresh eyes, the five questions new hires answer honestly precisely because they are new.
Team Metrics: Health & Output
Day 14 · 90 min · 8 sections
- See measurement's shadow
- Install the Five Dials
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Team Metrics: Health & Output
- See measurement's shadow, Understand the observer effect in teams, every metric becomes a target, every target invites gaming, and the wrong dial quietly rewrites behavior.
- Install the Five Dials, Master the minimum panel: output trend, health pulse, clarity drift, candor temperature, growth rate, five numbers, each paired with a check question.
- Run the Deadly Metrics scan, Diagnose your current metrics against the seven poisonous patterns, and learn the repair for each: re-pair, re-source, or retire.
- Set the Friday read, Build the fifteen-minute weekly ritual that reads the dials with your team, trends over snapshots, questions over verdicts.
Capstone: Your Team Charter & Operating Rhythm
Day 15 · 90 min · 8 sections
- Write the Team Charter
- Sequence the 90 days
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Capstone: Your Team Charter & Operating Rhythm
- Write the Team Charter, Assemble the seven charter sections, goal, roles, decision ritual, feedback rhythm, craft plan, recognition kit, metrics panel, each fed by its day's workbook artifact.
- Sequence the 90 days, Build the installation calendar: what goes live in weeks one to four, what lands in months two and three, and why the order funds itself.
- Rehearse the eight objections, Prepare honest answers for the pushback, 'we don't have time', 'this is process for process's sake', 'the team will see this as surveillance', and the evidence each one secretly respects.
- Commit to the rhythm, Choose the personal operating rhythm, the leader's side of the system, that keeps the four forces alive after the course's momentum fades.
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