Start here. What you're facilitating and how the pieces fit: what the course owns (the team's seeing and choosing) versus what you build afterward, the honest org-level case for the buyer conversation, and your editable base slides. Read it once end-to-end before you touch the rest.

The Frame, and Your Role In It

QUICK VIEW: Cross-Functional Working Base Slides

OVERVIEW

The non-negotiables before you take a cross-functional team through this: the four moves at team scale, how a team's energy mix shapes the friction at the seam, and the guardrails that must not drift — flex-not-mask, the self-leadership boundary, and the Foundation-exploration boundary. Know these cold.

The Three Things to Hold

FACILITATION ESSENTIALS

The load-bearing page. How to run the facilitated work — explore on your own, then reconvene and decide — as one combined session or four short per-capstone sessions. The four segments, the watch-fors, and the return-loop check most practitioners skip. Build the return in.

Two Shapes for the Team Work

FACILITATING THE SESSION

When a cross-functional team finishes, something new is possible: they can name one collision at the seam and commit to one shared move. The leader is who keeps that alive. Four things to set up with them, three ways it goes sideways, and the questions that keep it on one move, not every grievance.

Hand the Work to the Leader

COACHING THE LEADER

The things to leave with: the Leader Conversation Sheet you put in the leader's hands, the four worksheets the team works, and the slides you adapt for your own room. Where to find them, how they're meant to be used, and what to hand off versus what to keep for yourself.

What You Carry Out the Room

RESOURCES

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