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

Check out our podcast!

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 Josephine Palermo.

Transformation in organisations and communities is Josephine’s passion. She has decades of experience in leadership and organisational change, having delivered millions of dollars of productivity gains across public and private sectors, and significant increases in employee engagement and customer satisfaction. With a PhD in Organisational Psychology and numerous publications in areas of organisational development, change, coaching and leadership, Josephine uses an informed, energetic and hands on approach to create lasting change in people, processes, and total systems. Her deep knowledge and ability to quickly assess the root cause of issues is coupled with expert facilitation and stakeholder management, which makes working with Josephine both inspiring and effortless.

Skilled in re-designing teams and organisations, recent achievements include the phased implementation of agile at scale for Telstra across various teams, and major digital transformation for Orica Manufacturing. In both these contexts she applied the 6 team conditions framework as the problems that presented themselves were systemic and often required addressing at the group level.

Some of the seminal work conducted at Telstra was with critical product and software delivery teams who were working on product development end to end. They were many structural problems discovered that were leading to poor outcomes for customers such as slow delivery times and poor quality. Workshops were developed to raise awareness of the criticality of collaboration and to build this capability across the organisation. The program aimed to develop a culture of collective or shared leadership, to play a critical role in creating environmental conditions for innovation and high performance. Compelling direction, Real team and Right People formed the foundation of the program design. Specifically the workshops aimed to

  • Create  netter problem solving, delivery and operational processes leading to reduced cost and time to deliver; and
  • Increase customer advocacy outcomes through improved straight through processing with reduced failure demand.

The workshops achieved significant improvements in end to end team processes and increased productivity and effectiveness. This is evidenced by feedback given by the one of the project sponsors:

“The overall workshop has been a catalyst for the {…} product and the virtual cross company team has gone from strength to strength from the event.  The evidence of this has been in the recent metrics which showed the project build rate is three times faster and the project will realise almost all of the aggressive business case benefits”.