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T-group
A transformative group experience that will improve your interpersonal communication and combat the isolation of startup leadership.
T-group Retreats
A transformative group experience that will
improve your interpersonal communication and
combat the isolation of startup leadership.
Get The Honest Feedback Your Team Isn’t Telling You
In a T-group, we don’t hide behind case studies, and we’re not a support group where you talk about struggles and get advice. Instead, we employ a “here and now” approach which means you’ll engage live with the real interpersonal dilemmas that emerge in the group, and then hear honest feedback from others on:
• When and how you are most influential to others
• What other people (really) think and feel about how you act and how you lead
• What behaviors or attitudes of yours trigger specific emotional responses in others
Practice Interpersonal Skills
Over the course of the T-group, you’ll receive a little bit of content and a lot of iterative practice that will help you learn the interpersonal side of startup leadership including how to be more effective when you:
• Give & receive feedback
• Express and regulate your emotions
• Influence individuals and groups
• Build trust & deeper connection
• Engage in conflict & repair
The Original T-group Designed For Startup Leaders
T-groups are experiential interpersonal laboratories pioneered at MIT by one of the founders of modern social psychology, Kurt Lewin, and further developed at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), which is where I originally trained as a facilitator.
Stanford has been using T-groups to train MBAs for over 50 years through its legendary Interpersonal Dynamics aka “Touchy Feely” course. In early 2014, my then co-founder Michael Terrell and I adapted the Stanford format into a standalone retreat. From 2014-2020, over 230 startup founders and leaders completed a T-group with us.
Upcoming T-groups
I now host two T-group retreats each year, a 2.5 day introductory-level retreat in the Spring for any startup founder/leader who is new to T-groups, and my 2.5-day “community” T-group in the Fall open to any startup/founder who has experienced at least one T-group before. The dates for 2024 are:
Intro T-group: Weds-Fri ~ April 24-26, 2024
Community T-group: Weds-Fri ~ Sept 18-20, 2024
