Team Circles

Peer conversations that bring meaning, clarity and connectedness.

Feeling stuck as a team?

Sometimes teams feel stuck and have a hard time moving forward. You may be observing some of the following challenges surfacing in day-to-day work:

Lack of focus and peer accountability
Difficult behaviors
Ineffective communication and feedback fear
Mediocre performance
Members not being aligned to the team's goals
Changes in team dynamics due to people leaving and new people joining

Even if your team seems to be working just alright, every once in a while you as a leader should step back and observe the patterns that prevent your team from moving to the next level. It’s your job as a leader to care for the team’s collective wellbeing and to solve problems and inefficiencies that prevent it from living its highest possible potential.

Time to gather around a team circle

People are driven by the impact they can make on products and services, their local communities, and society as a whole.

By having a deep and honest conversation about what holds you together as a team, you'll give your people a new sense of meaning and belonging. Communication makes healthy relationships.

Team Circles can be organized as a 5-week online program or a 4-day intensive live experience. Here's what you'll achieve by organizing a team circle:

Help restore and build trust
Build internal resilience
Build new skills: listening, sharing, basic coaching skills, empathy, journalling
Surface potential team blind spots
Build relationships based on transparency, openness and shared experiences
Build a capacity for open communication, addressing and solving burning issues, so the team gains back its energy and power
Improve individual and team ability to reflect, strategize, and move forward
Help members envision their contribution as part of the whole organization

Reinventing your team through Team Circles

At People Portal we believe that values, experiences and stories are at the heart of a conscious organization: one that cares equally for profits, employees and society. With Team Circles you'll empower your team to gain clarity about its values, purpose and way forward. Plus, you'll reach a higher level of cohesion and performance.

Self Discovery & Growth

Explore personal values and beliefs, become part of a supporting system that accepts you for who you are, receive honest, caring and meaningful feedback that helps you grow.

Team Purpose & Vision

Define shared purpose and values that unite the team and take it to the next level, build a truly remarkable and productive team from the inside out.

Relational Intelligence

Establish new habits and healthy bonds among team members, as high performing teams are a result of the way the separate parts interact with each other and how they relate to the whole.

How it works

Groups of up to 12 people (contact us for a custom proposal if your team is bigger )
Structured conversation on topics that are urgent and important for the team and for the individual members
Conversational and storytelling format facilitated by an NLP coach and a Storytelling coach
Three conversational sessions with an experienced facilitator (up to 2.5 hours each)
A Journaling Challenge sent by email or done live
Final recap session containing findings, recommendations and new courses of action
Program duration
- A 5-week online program (one 2-hour session per week and an email journaling challenge)
- OR a 4-day intensive live experience

Meaningful work and relationships are important for all businesses.

Joining the Circle?

Team Circles is designed for groups of up to 12 people

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Meet your facilitators

Angelina Penkova

Over the past 15 years Angelina has worked in different areas of Marketing and Communications. One of her latest projects is her adventure at People Portal where she specializes in creating and delivering training workshops on Storytelling.

Both her personal and professional experience have led to the understanding that the skill to tell powerful and immersive stories can lead to improving Culture and the overall organizational environment, sharing a common vision and efficient collaboration between people and teams.

Maria Padalski

Maria created People Portal following 15 years of professional experience in various leadership positions, ranging from Marketing and Business Development to People Management.

Her multifaceted perspective on the working of an organization has shaped her understanding that each successful company has a solid foundation where a healthy culture and shared values are inextricably woven together. And that people belong and thrive at companies where culture and values are strong.

Dobrin Padalski

Dobrin has 20+ years of experience in training and facilitation with 800+ completed trainings and 10,000+ participants. An entrepreneur and a mentor, he helps people bring the best of themselves for the collective purpose in several business and non profit organizations.

He designs leadership training programs and workshops that foster team work, shared vision and goals, productivity and connection.

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