The New Team Rules

Connecting, Collaborating, and Producing Results in the Age of Zoom

How do you build a productive team when co-workers are no longer in the same room or even available during the same hours?

And how do you create better rhythms of work and communication that ultimately drive greater engagement and success for your team?

Effective teams foster creativity, accountability, and diverse ideas, but achieving this is complex. Different work styles and priorities can lead to conflicts and slow progress. Communication overload and excessive meetings can reduce focus and productivity. Team dynamics can result in power struggles, lack of accountability, and stress.

In this session, Curt Steinhorst outlines hidden drivers that can harm teams. He provides a playbook for working together in a way that makes room for diverse work styles and communication preferences.

Key Outcomes

✔ Transform diverse, dispersed, and disconnected individual contributors into a high-performing team

✔ Improve communication while avoiding overload and interruption

✔ Ensure organizational goals link to team priorities

✔ Negotiate successful ground rules for remote/hybrid work/in-office arrangements

✔ Improve collective decision-making within teams.

As the founder and CEO of Focuswise, Curt Steinhorst has worked with top companies like Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Nike, AT&T, and many more. He’s also a regular Forbes contributor and author of the bestselling book, Can I Have Your Attention? Additionally, as the Head of People & Culture at Venus Aerospace, he’s actively building a future-facing workplace based on his time-tested techniques of focus, accountability, and productivity.



Curt absolutely surpassed expectations! His presentation truly captured the attention of our tough crowd of executive-level management professionals."

— Director, Department of Human Services