Team Building
Meet the Person: connection your team can feel
High-performing teams aren't built on org charts. They're built on people who know each other, trust each other, and feel safe enough to speak up. Our Meet the Person programme applies 16 years of connection craft to the inside of your organisation.
When employees feel genuinely connected to their work, colleagues, and mission, they are 56% more productive, 7x more engaged, and 50% less likely to leave.
How the programme works
Listen first
A confidential team survey and a round of one-on-one interviews, so the programme is built on how your people actually feel about connection, belonging and safety, not assumptions.
The activation event
A half-day, MC-hosted event engineered for genuine connection: structured introductions around shared interests, movement between groups, and free-flowing conversation, captured and celebrated on your own channels.
Keep it alive
A follow-on programme of monthly interest groups and small mixed groups that deliberately pair new and old connections, so the event becomes a habit rather than a memory.
Recognition
Gratitude built into the rhythm of the team: shared stories of colleagues helping colleagues, surfaced in standups and on a living "cool stories" board.
Grounded in evidence
The programme draws on decades of research into what makes people thrive at work: belonging as a core human need, self-determination, social capital, shared identity and psychological safety.
The numbers back it up: the overwhelming majority of New Zealand workers say they perform better when they feel they belong. Connection isn't a nice-to-have; it's a performance system.
93% of organisations believe a sense of belonging drives organisational performance.Deloitte
Employees who have a "best friend" at work are seven times more likely to be engaged in their job.Gallup
Proven in the field
A major NZ bank
Helped reconnect a technology division of around 1,300 people across an innovation-versus-operations divide, a culture journey that contributed to a national Best ICT Culture award.
A post-merger energy company
Brought together 300 IT staff across three locations after a merger, turning two legacy cultures into one connected team.
Curious what it would look like for your team?
Every programme starts with a conversation about your people and what's getting in the way of connection.
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