What are the 6 Conditions?

At 6 Team Conditions, we are dedicated to developing brilliant collaborations to catalyze change. Based on decades of research from Ruth Wageman and Richard Hackman of Harvard University, the 6 Team Conditions team certifies practitioners and uses their tools and techniques to enhance teamwork in order to achieve their goals.

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Team Diagnostic Survey

The Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS) can measure your team’s standing on the 6 Conditions.

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Certification

Get certified in using the 6 Conditions and TDS to diagnose, facilitate, and support teams.

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Enterprise Solutions

Learn how we can support you to pervade your organization with superb teams.

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What People Say!

The 6 Team Conditions framework serves as the foundation for my team coaching practice. I strongly recommend it for any coach that is serious about bringing to their practice decades of rigorous research combined with practical tools for making the highest leverage interventions that get teams moving on a positive trajectory quickly.

Gabe AbellaOrganizational Coach, JPMorgan Chase

The 6 Team Conditions have greatly helped us improve the effectiveness of our leadership teams at all levels. The framework is easy-to-understand and can be easily applied across a number of scenarios, cultures, and countries. The tool is valid, reliable, and based off years of research so we can trust the assessment. By pinpointing specific areas of focus, the assessment allows our teams to have meaningful conversations to help improve their performance. Our teams have enjoyed talking about the results and working together on action planning. Working with Dr. Wageman and her team has been most rewarding. I highly recommend the 6 Team Conditions assessment.

Jorrit van der TogtExecutive Vice President People Strategy, Organisational Development, and Learning, Shell

I was thoroughly impressed with both the Level 1 and Level 2 certifications. Online learning can sometimes be challenging but I found that in Level 1, the depth of content allowed me to digest it easily and the distribution across the modules was intuitive. I appreciated Level 1 even more after I attended Level 2—while Level 1 gives a strong theoretical foundation in the model, including providing us practitioners with really useful soundbites about validity/reliability that help to generate buy-in from clients, Level 2 was a perfect way to build upon that foundation. The Level 2 was not a review of Level 1 at all—I was concerned it would be a re-hashing of Level 1. Instead, it was completely additive. It provided ample opportunities to apply the learning in real-time, to real cases. I was able to gain facility in describing the 6 Team Conditions Model and in walking clients through TDS reports. In addition, I learned numerous design options for gaining clients’ investment in taking real action based on the report results.

Internal OD Consultant, Healthcare Industry

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Check out the 6 Conditions Podcast where Ruth Wageman and Krister Lowe explore great teams and how they are developed.

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Practitioner Spotlight

Fréderique Purnot studied psychology first at the University of Leiden (Bachelor) and afterwards at the University of Utrecht (Master). During her Masters, she held an intensive internship that focused on learning how to give workshops and teaching. This experience led her to pursue this area. Her interest and excitement for her experience was noticed by one of her supervisors who, upon graduation, asked if she would like to supervise this internship! Since then, she has been a teacher in psychology at the University of Utrecht and supervises the new interns during a year round Train-the-Trainer program. Improving education, educational innovation and teacher training are her main passions and she hopes she can contribute to this area for years to come.

In her work at the University of Utrecht, she often encounters working with student teams: a lot of courses work with group assignments in which students work together for longer periods of time towards one end result. The same is true for Bachelor students working together on their end of the year research project. Learning about the six team conditions framework made my work a lot easier, since she now has a very clear focus. She will always start with a launch in which she asks the student teams to think about what their goal is and how they can make this goal challenging and meaningful. She will also ask them to create collaboration agreements in which they formulate how they would like to work together. During the rest of the learning process she constantly focuses on the six team conditions and asks the following questions: Is the team assignment clear, challenging and consequential? Do the team members use their diversity and qualities in order to thrive and learn from each other? Do the team members have high quality team norms and do they have the right resources to complete the team assignment? And how can she help them in a way that promotes the best use of their collective resources? This has made her work so enjoyable and she can see the students working together better in a very collaborative, friendly way and achieving high results as a result. She wish she knew sooner.