Treasures at Work

We guide people to discover and live as the Unique Gift that they are.

Facilitated Dialog

We believe that inside every individual is a Hidden Treasure — a Gift — and it's our job to help find it. One of the most powerful bonding experiences for teams is the Gift Process.

Each person's Gift is the composite of qualities, attributes, and inclinations that reflects the essence of who they are and the basis of what they contribute to their teams and the corporate community as a whole. The Gifts that people bring transcend roles — they speak to the style that drives their actions and communications with others.

Through a series of facilitated dialogs, each member of the team expresses what they appreciate about one another while also listening to what others have to say about them. By the completion of the process each member will have a written Gift Statement that serves as an anchor to remind them that they have something valuable to contribute and that they are appreciated in ways they did not previously imagine.

The Gift of Your Team and Its Noble Purpose

"When Purpose becomes more important than Profit you end up having both."

Whereas each individual has a Unique Gift, so does your team. Through a series of facilitated dialogs, the leadership team is guided to create a team Gift Statement.

Found within the team's Gift Statement lies the nature of their Noble Purpose — an ongoing direction that brings meaning to activity.

We recently conducted this activity for the executive team of a collection of health care resorts. Their Noble Purpose is: "Caring for the enhanced wellbeing of all."

What Extraordinary Teams Share

The program is built around a framework called the E-Factor — four pillars that describe how high-performing teams actually operate:

Disciplined Focus

  • Clear shared vision or mission
  • Commonly held and demonstrated core values
  • Team intentions that align effort

Accelerated Learning

  • Feedback-rich environment
  • Timely tools for individual and team calibration
  • Giving and receiving feedback effectively

Trigger State Recovery

  • Each individual takes ownership for results
  • Team members hold one another accountable
  • People respond rather than over-react

The E-Factor

  • Each person is appreciated for their Unique Contribution (Gift)
  • Accomplishments are celebrated
  • People find fulfillment in the pursuit
"Extraordinary teams are unstoppable in their pursuit of the mission. They learn on the run, converting obstacles into opportunities, breakdowns into breakthroughs, and triggered states into treasured moments."

The Gift OS in Organizations

The Gift framework functions less like a curriculum and more like an operating system — it changes how people perceive situations, interpret each other's behavior, and respond under pressure.

When people understand their own Gift — and begin to recognize the Gifts of those around them — the default patterns shift:

Threat detection→Gift noticing
Self-protection→Stewardship
Blame→Context awareness
Reactivity→Intention
Performance identity→Contribution identity