The Team Flow Trajectory is a cyclical process approach to achieving team flow. It consists of an inspirational session on team flow where the underlying theory is made tangible. Then, the conditions under which team flow occurs are assessed. From the assessment, a diagnosis of what can be done to improve the team flow climate follows. A strategy with concrete interventions and/or improvement actions over a short period of up to 3 months is set out to realize this. Procedurally, this looks like this:
Step 1: The intake interview
The intake interview is held with representatives of the organization and/or team to discuss the team’s concrete situation and tailor the trajectory. The team flow trajectory is a customized trajectory!
Step 2: The Inspiration Session
We start the program with an inspirational session that explains the thinking behind team flow. In an interactive session, participants will be introduced to the Team Flow Model and will share their personal experiences in flow. In this way, everyone becomes aware of flow, experiences what is needed to realize flow, and how they can facilitate each other. For the team, it also becomes clear what the team as a whole stands for and what each person’s contribution is.
Step 3: Team Flow Experience and/or Team Flow Game
Optionally, we conclude the inspiration session with an actual Team Flow Experience and/or playing the Team Flow Game. This reinforces the learning effect. This way, we can close it in a fun way, and participants will experience a flow when working together. In consultation with the team, we determine which activity is suitable for them.
Step 4: Team Flow Monitor (pretest)
Team flow occurs when eleven elements are present in the team that can be distinguished into conditions and characteristics of the experience. We can measure the presence of the elements for team flow in combination with a number of performance measures with the help of the Team Flow Monitor. This is a scientifically validated measurement tool. Participants may complete this questionnaire one week after the end of the inspiration session. The questionnaire is made available digitally, and completing it takes a participant an average of 15 minutes. Based on the results, we determine whether and to what extent the conditions for team flow are present and whether people actually experience (team) flow while performing their work. We also measure a number of performance measures to determine whether optimizing the team flow climate actually leads to better performance.
Step 5: From Diagnosis to Action Plan by using the Teamflowcanvas
In this team session we discuss together the results of the measurement with the Teamflowmonitor and thus the presence of the conditions and experience characteristics of team flow as well as the measured performance measures such as, for example, happiness, productivity, atmosphere, efficiency, innovativeness. Together with the team members, we thus determine what the current and desired collaboration climate is and how we can arrive at the desired collaboration climate via an action plan.
Step 6: Implementing Actions / Interventions
The team will work independently to implement the agreed actions / interventions to improve the team flow climate. If desired, we guide the team in this or approach someone from our network to guide the team in this.
Step 7: Teamflow Monitor (posttest)
After implementing the agreed actions/interventions, it is time to evaluate whether the actions/interventions have had the desired effect on the team flow climate. By conducting a post-test (post-measurement) with the Teamflow Monitor, we make this effect visible and can discuss it again and convert it into a new action plan. This cycle is gone through several times under our guidance until the team is ready to do this independently with the TeamFlow® App!
