Stefano Mastrogiacomo.

Guides, client stories and field notes

Field notes from real engagements: how leadership teams align and what makes change hold.

AI guides

AI guide

8 AI prompts for psychological safety

Eight prompts to prepare questions and responses that help people raise concerns, with limits on what AI can infer about a team.

AI guide

9 AI prompts for resolving team misalignment

Nine prompts to examine different understandings of the work, prepare a Team Alignment Map session and review commitments with the team.

AI guide

9 AI prompts for difficult conversations

Nine prompts to prepare a difficult conversation, distinguish facts from interpretations and check the limits of an AI role-play.

Client stories

What holds a cross-border team together, with CEXIM executives
Client story

What holds a cross-border team together, with CEXIM executives

A hands-on session with executives from China's Export-Import Bank, on the trust and shared language cross-cultural teams actually run on.

Clarifying team missions at Salomon
Client story

Clarifying team missions at Salomon

Inside a Digital & IT leadership workshop: team missions, overlapping responsibilities and the work needed after the offsite.

A deep-tech client that cleans up shipping wins a national award
Client story

A deep-tech client that cleans up shipping wins a national award

Daphne Technology, building cleaner marine systems, takes the 2023 Swiss Economic Forum Life Science Award.

Two days to align Cartier's entrepreneur club on its future
Client story

Two days to align Cartier's entrepreneur club on its future

An intensive alignment sprint in Geneva with the committee of RED CLUB × Cartier, on where the club goes next.

What a hospital crisis taught us about alignment
Client story

What a hospital crisis taught us about alignment

March 2020, Geneva: turning surgical units into COVID capacity in days and the five lessons that held.

A team alignment programme with PwC’s change leaders
Client story

A team alignment programme with PwC’s change leaders

A three-day programme with 40 change agents and leaders from PwC’s Global Delivery Model Services organisation.

Field notes

What really makes a team succeed
Field note
What really makes a team succeed
An interview with Wirtschaftspsychologie Heute on why trust and communication decide team success more than raw talent.
Turn your worst recurring meeting into thirty useful minutes
Field note
Turn your worst recurring meeting into thirty useful minutes
The Meeting Optimizer, a simple tool that rescues a tiresome meeting, on-site or online, before it starts.
How to ask for a change without putting people on the defensive
Field note
How to ask for a change without putting people on the defensive
Public blame gets the work done no faster and trust much lower. A constructive way to ask, built on Marshall Rosenberg's work.
Half your meetings are wasted. Two conditions fix it
Field note
Half your meetings are wasted. Two conditions fix it
Wasted meetings echo a 1944 CIA sabotage manual. The two conditions that reverse it: psychological safety and shared knowledge.
Why talented teams still fail without psychological safety
Field note
Why talented teams still fail without psychological safety
Can talented people who distrust each other perform? Unequivocally, no, and psychological safety is the reason.
Why a misaligned team feels slow and what's happening backstage
Field note
Why a misaligned team feels slow and what's happening backstage
The signs of misalignment and the backstage work that turns delay and frustration into shared direction.
Most conflicts start as an unchecked assumption
Field note
Most conflicts start as an unchecked assumption
The Fact Finder separates fact from story before a small gap hardens into a conflict.
Taking the Team Alignment Map to the Middle East
Field note
Taking the Team Alignment Map to the Middle East
The first Team Alignment Masterclass in the region, in Kuwait City and what travels across cultures.

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