“Circles supports teams to dig deeper, uncover roadblocks, find truths, and generate solutions that shape the path to transformative results.”

— Meaghan Loftus, Director of Partner Success & Associate, CT3 and former School Principal

Our Process

grounded in 12 years of experience working with hundreds of leadership teams, executives and school districts across the country

rooted in highly impactful group facilitation and coaching (over 13,000 hrs in practice) that creates a new foundation your team culture

Phases of Team Growth

With the change you are after…we want to make sure nothing is in the way of your best work and that you are running towards your vision together.

Our Approach

Our team off-sites take people through this approach starting with building authentic connections, trust, and relationships.

The conversation is carefully designed with a variety of facilitated exercises, reflection, quotes, tools and media that brings out honest, inspiring conversation and the greatest potential of your team.

“Jon is extremely effective in coaching and supporting leadership teams to work together to build trust, positive relationships, and a collaborative culture. I have been able to build teams that have produced positive outcomes for students. .”

— Tisha Greene, Cato School of Education and former Senior Leader in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

  • Create a highly connected team that is committed to standing with and for each other

  • Lead with more character, courage and stamina in change efforts

  • Sustain and deepen results by leading from a greater sense of purpose

  • Develop, restore and reconcile key team relationships needed to move team to the next level

  • Renew commitment and take steps towards fully honoring values and behaviors

  • Unlock new ways of thinking and innovation that accelerates the pathway to your vision

Outcomes

We focus on creating results based on your most pressing needs but below are a few examples we tend to see in most engagements…

    • We discuss and align on your key goals and strategy as a team.

    • We help you understand where you are as a group through 1:1 team conversations and/or surveys.

    • We craft all communications for you to make sure your team knows why this will be highly valuable and catered to what matters most to them.

    • A variety of facilitated conversation, media, and exercises are created to ensure the highest impact.

    • Additional tools available like the the WorkPlace Big Five leadership assessment to give you more data on the best ways to work with each other.

    • We design partnerships that can be as short as a few months to help with an off-site day to 9-12 month engagements with touch points throughout the year.

    • It is helpful to have a last 30 days notice of your suggested initial date so we can prepare both you and your time for a transformational experience.

Design

Our engagements are custom designed to accelerate and advance your ability to create results.

"The idea of interdependence is that we can meet each other’s needs in a variety of ways, that we can truly lean on others and they can lean on us."

— adrienee maree brown from “emergent strategy”