3-day Virtual Seminar

From Groups to Tribes: How Managers Create Teams That Think, Challenge, and Win

Overview

Most managers focus on maintaining stability, but the best create movements within their teams. This webinar challenges you to reframe management from maintaining order to fostering a thriving, thinking tribe. Teams that function like tribes share a sense of belonging, a common purpose, and a culture where management welcomes employees to question and challenge ideas.

In this session, Dr. Gary DePaul will introduce a new leadership framework from Seth Godin's Tribes, Timothy Clark’s Four Stages of Psychological Safety, and Jamil Zaki's Positive Skepticism. You'll learn to cultivate an environment where people feel connected, energized, and encouraged to think critically. By taking small, consistent steps, you can transform your direct reports from a group of employees to an engaged and high-performing tribe.

Expect to leave with actionable strategies to move beyond psychological safety into tribal leadership, where challenge and collaboration drive performance.

Why you should Attend

Too many teams lack psychological safety. To become high-performing, they need psychological safety and more: connection, shared purpose, and a culture of positive skepticism.

In today's fast-paced workplace, teams need a different work environment, and you can transform your workplace so everyone performs at their best! It won't happen overnight or even in a couple of months. Instead, you make small changes that compound over time to enable engagement, motivation, and critical thinking to thrive.

Join leadership expert Dr. Gary DePaul for a transformative session that redefines the role of managers from status quo protectors to tribal leaders who cultivate belonging, challenge, and purpose. Drawing from Seth Godin's Tribes, Timothy Clark's Four Stages of Psychological Safety, and Jamil Zaki's Positive Skepticism, this webinar will shift how you think about leading teams.

Areas Covered in the Session

• Beyond Psychological Safety: Creating an engaged team requires more than instilling inclusion safety; it requires safety in learning, contributing, and challenging
• Tribal Leadership in Action: Learn how managers of tribes act differently (hint: it's more than making employees comfortable. It involves inspiring them to believe in something more purposeful)
• From Cynicism to Positive Skepticism: Focus on transforming cynical employees to adopting positive skepticism
• Clark's Level Four (Challenger Safety): The best teams push one another to improve and have 200% accountability
• Practical Leadership Strategies: You can take actionable steps to cultivate a high-performing, engaged tribe that thinks critically and drives innovation

Outcomes: By the end of this webinar, you will:

• Leverage psychological safety to empower the team to engage with one another and you
• Begin transforming the group or team to be more cohesive and think critically
• Recognize cynicism and encourage positive skepticism
• Implement leadership techniques that build tribes rather than just teams

Who Will Benefit

• Managers and Team Leads looking to improve Team engagement 
• HR Professionals and Organizational Development Managers
• Project Managers leading cross-functional Teams
• Anyone who wants to move their team beyond compliance and toward creative problem-solving