GO TEAM! WINNING TOGETHER DNA

SIM X SIM ACAD

Course overview

GO TEAM! WINNING TOGETHER DNA
Categories

Organization Learning

degree award
Provider

SIM ACAD

academic level
Course type

Instructor-Led

projected fees
Course fee

(including GST)

Member Total Fee : $327.00
Non-Member Total Fee : $327.00

funding subsidy
Funding/Subsidy

N.A

Course Overview

GO TEAM! WINNING TOGETHER DNA

Building teams that trust, collaborate and make better decisions — together.

High-performing teams don't happen by chance. They are built on trust, shared understanding, constructive conversations and the ability to make decisions together.

GO TEAM! WINNING TOGETHER DNA is a highly experiential team development programme designed to help teams strengthen the way they communicate, collaborate, navigate differences and align around shared outcomes.

When teams don't work as one, performance suffers.

Even strong individuals can struggle to perform collectively when teams experience:

  • Misaligned expectations and priorities
  • Communication gaps and assumptions
  • Difficulty navigating differences and conflict
  • Decisions that are made in silos
  • Lack of trust or psychological safety
  • Different interpretations of what "success" looks like

GO TEAM! WINNING TOGETHER DNA creates the space for teams to step back from day-to-day operations, understand how they work together and intentionally build the behaviours needed for stronger team performance.

Great teams don't just work together. They win together.

GO TEAM! WINNING TOGETHER DNA helps teams move from simply working alongside one another to thinking together, deciding together and taking ownership of outcomes together.

Ready to strengthen your team's DNA?

Course benefits

By the end of the programme, participants will be better equipped to:

  • Build trust through open communication and reliable follow-through.
  • Navigate differences by recognising assumptions and engaging constructively with diverse perspectives.
  • Make better collective choices by connecting individual decisions to shared priorities.
  • Strengthen collaboration by understanding how individual behaviours affect team dynamics.
  • Focus on shared outcomes rather than working in functional or individual silos.
  • Translate learning into action through agreed team behaviours and commitments.

Course outline

Four perspectives. One team.

The programme brings together four complementary approaches:

01 — The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team

Explore the behaviours that enable teams to build trust, embrace healthy conflict, commit to decisions, hold one another accountable and focus on collective results.

02 — Mental Models

Surface the assumptions and perspectives that shape how team members interpret situations, communicate and make decisions.

03 — Hierarchy of Choices

Understand how individual choices connect to team priorities and organisational outcomes — and make more deliberate decisions together.

04 — Appreciative Inquiry

Build on what is already working within the team and identify opportunities to strengthen positive behaviours and relationships.

Duration

1 day

Who should attend?

Designed for teams that need to work better, together.

Particularly relevant for:

  • Newly formed leadership teams
  • Teams going through organisational change
  • Cross-functional project teams
  • Middle and senior management teams
  • Teams experiencing communication or collaboration challenges
  • Teams preparing for a new strategic direction
  • High-potential and emerging leadership teams

Programme leader

Ian Tan is a leadership, organisational development and executive coaching practitioner with over 30 years of leadership experience in the Singapore Armed Forces, including appointments as Deputy Base Commander of Changi Air Base, Squadron Commander, and Head of Leadership Development Branch at the SAF Centre for Leadership Development.

Currently an Executive Coach within the SAF, Ian supports leaders in leadership transitions and stakeholder engagement, and facilitates the Command Effectiveness Process, a structured team coaching intervention for newly appointed leadership teams. Beyond the SAF, he has facilitated organisational alignment and coaching engagements across the public sector, healthcare, education and social service.

Ian is currently completing a Doctor of Education focused on Life Purpose and Leader Self-Development, and is pursuing the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential.

Clients / Focus Industries: Public sector (SAF, Singapore Land Authority); healthcare (Sengkang General Hospital); social service (MINDS, AWWA); education and adult learning (NIE, mentorship programmes); senior, middle and emerging leaders

Course fee