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

This month we are thrilled to have the spotlight on Terry Newman.

Terry, a Certified Coach through Columbia University, founded Newman Management Consulting after a long career in the financial industry. Having worked in leadership roles at entrepreneurial and large global financial organizations, she became a coach to help technical leaders and teams enhance the “human” side of leadership and team work, which she felt was lacking.

Terry is a seasoned individual and team coach with nearly nine years of experience advising and coaching professionals, leaders, and teams from over 30 countries. Through solutions focused coaching, assessments, team building and facilitation, Terry helps leaders and teams achieve greater effectiveness. Clients also benefit from her business acumen and her prior leadership experience. As a woman who succeeded in a male dominated field, she also focuses on coaching high potential diverse leaders and is proud of the success her clients have achieved reaching senior leadership roles in their organizations.

Newman Management has been engaged in several long term enterprise projects with various departments at the World Bank and IFC for the past six years. Over the past year Terry has used the TDS assessment with several World Bank and IFC leadership teams and with a larger intact team.

The Six Conditions provide an excellent and objective framework for identifying team strengths and areas needing attention to enhance effectiveness. This framework and resources from the TDS library have been invaluable in helping the teams she works with gain clarity on their purpose, their priorities, and specific actions to take to address the Conditions most needing improvement. Finally, technical leaders and teams appreciate the quantitative metrics that can be measured over time to assess progress.

Terry recently used Six Conditions for two virtual engagements and was able to introduce new collaboration tools that helped engage the team and enabled them to implement new approaches despite not being physically in the same location. She looks forward to introducing the Six Conditions framework to other clients in the future including working with teams on a pro bono basis to address issues around racial justice and inequality.