The Green Zone Culture Group

Our Services - Philosophy

All of our initiatives focus on developing Green Zone cultures characterized by trust, emotional commitment and collaboration.

Trust - Trust is the necessary precondition upon which everything else depends. High trust environments invite open, honest communication. They support people in talking to each other instead of about each other and having difficult conversations in support of being more effective at work. High trust environments create an interpersonal safety zone, a green zone, that inspires higher levels of accountability, creativity and innovation. Becoming more trustworthy increases personal influence, builds loyalty and enhances personal reputation and influence.

Emotional Commitment - This is where passion, energy and enthusiasm come from. When people are emotionally committed to the work and to the team, they are unstoppable. They turn obstacles into opportunities and take great pride in their work. They care about their work and each other. The opposite of emotional commitment is not logical reasoning, it is emotional detachment, disengagement and apathy.

Collaboration - Organizations live or die on relationships. Strong collaborative skills leverage the effectiveness of all relationships and environments. Maintaining a Green Zone attitude is the single most important thing people can do to increase their effectiveness, particularly during challenging times.

Our programs are built on a solid foundation of principles, theory and practice

Principles - for creating continuous, positive change
Theory - a simple framework for understanding human behavior and motivation
Practice - experiences to help you align your thinking, feeling, and actions

One size does not fit all

We offer highly personal and intensive training experiences
We embed our workshops within other programs
We adapt our offerings to meet customized needs
We offer longer emersion programs by arrangement
We offer shorter informational presentations about our work
We partner with associates around the globe to offer our programs

Radical Collaboration A three-day workshop for building effective relationship skills.
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Green Zone Leadership: Leading with Social Intelligence This three-day workshop is for emerging leaders, managers and high potentials who seek to become more effective at leading, motivating and inspiring the human element at work.
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Collaborative Communication Developing the capacity to have direct, honest and respectful conversations that convey both content and intention.
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The Human Element An integrated approach to building a better business by focusing on people first.
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Collaborative Teams Supportively challenge individual team members to understand themselves, build trust with colleagues and learn a model for collaborative problem solving.
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Leading For Results
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Participant and Supervisor Reported Outcomes:

Accepts responsibility for both the pain and the joy in their life
Feels centered and personally powerful
Perceives reality in the world
Is not easily threatened
Does not trigger survival instincts in others
Sees others as partners or opponents, not enemies
Is open and purposeful about their intentions
Can be hard on problems and soft on people
Treats others with respect
Seeks solutions rather than blame or shame
Wants to understand others’ point of view
Values own point of view
Wants everyone to win, including self
Cares about impact on others
Is open to influence by others
Maintains standards of personal honor regardless of strong feelings
Sees the value of letting go and forgiveness
Seeks excellence rather than beating someone
Acts out of values, principals, and reason
Communicates a base-line caring attitude
Is skillful in dealing with conflict
Does not use force or violence
Accepts conflict as a natural part of the human experience
Is open to feedback
Learns from mistakes

This is the best course, bar none, to gain insight into the human predicament of how we sabotage collaboration and how we can begin building a collaborative environment.

Kevin Riley
Safety Engineer
NASA

This was an absolutely wonderful experience that should be taught much earlier in life.

Michael
Scientist
National Cancer Institute

This training proved to be extremely practical and very effective. We believe it was the best, most useful training we have ever had.

Peter Reynolds
President
Brio Toys of North America

Radical Collaboration is the best program I have seen for building long-term relationships, improving communication skills and increasing productivity. It will make an immediate impact on your organizational effectiveness.

Kathleen Stanbrough
Executive Director
Sacramento Mediation Center

We coach our leaders to use Red Zone/Green Zone and if it is Green Zone then get back involved, but if you hear some Red Zone kinds of stuff then call a time out, or challenge the group or try in some way to move it back into the Green Zone. I think for the leaders that is really key. Red Zone/Green Zone is a quick metric that allows them a thumbs up or thumbs down and if its thumbs up great, get back in and stay involved but if it is not, intervene and begin to make a difference on where we are going.

Dave Haase
Alliance Manager
Eli Lilly and Company

This course is not the usual; it's filled with new information, insights and activities. I now have a whole new way to move from conflict to collaboration. This is a must-do course for everyone who deals with people.

Colleen Petersen
Seagate

Every business lives or dies on relationships. Relationships based on trust and accountability are worth their weight in gold. Radical Collaboration is a gold mine of practical tools for creating more productive relationships.

Michael Hunt

The Human Element approach has been the center of our new leadership development program and we have been profoundly pleased with the results. Having reviewed countless leadership development programs, [we believe] this is the one that delivers.

Michael Rossiter

I have been applying what I learned last week in almost every single hour ever since and it's absolutely exhilarating to be 'freed of myself.' I can go on and on about this but I won't as I'm sure you will get sick of hearing my litany...but I'm just so very happy and you guys have been the catalysts for that!

Henna
Shell Oil

The most useful five days I've ever invested in my life and career. I can only talk of The Human Element in superlatives. It was a fantastic experience.

Anthony Villasenor
Computer Systems Manager
NASA Headquarters

Since implementing the Greenzone technologies of The Human Element, the Firo Theory, Radical Collaboration and the ICS Course along with our work with The Natural Step, our company has become a leader in its field for sustainable practices both environmentally as well as in business development and profitability. The Max Leadership Academy focuses on assisting managers to be focused on purposeful management beyond the ordinary. The Greenzone principles that we have discovered and applied to our business are the basis for its success.

Pär Larshans
Max Hamburgerrestauranger