TeamWeave
Helping teams build trust, connection and engagement
so they can improve collaboration and performance, and experience greater fulfillment at work
Built on the simple, powerful practice of regular team check-ins
A practical resource for teams
Common Challenges in Today’s Workplaces
Many teams are navigating shallow interactions, persistent tensions and a culture that can feel more performative than genuine.
Leaders often sense when teams aren’t thriving, seeing people become less collaborative, engaged and fulfilled at work.
When old ways of working fail to inspire people, the result can be disengagement, burnout and a loss of the human connection that supports effective teamwork and job satisfaction.
In response, many organisations attempt to address these challenges through top-down culture change initiatives. While well-intentioned, these can struggle to create lasting change if they don’t engage teams directly and build the human skills and trust needed at the ground level.
These challenges are prompting teams to look for ways to grow trust, culture and capability from within the team itself.
TeamWeave supports teams to do this by starting with the simple, powerful practice of regular team check-ins, building the human skills and conditions needed for healthier collaboration, performance and fulfilment.
Get our Free “Guide to Team Check-ins for Workplaces”
Team Check-ins for people, not projects.
This practical resource helps your team learn the steps, skills and culture needed to run effective check-ins.
It provides clear guidance for getting started, along with a deeper exploration you can return to as a valuable reference as your team’s check-in practice matures and as the skills and culture flow into everyday work.
This guide is the foundation for our TeamWeave programs.
What is a Team Check-in?
A team check-in is a simple, powerful practice where each person in the team can share how they feel and what’s happening for them.
It’s about people, not tasks or project updates, unless those work items are affecting someone personally.
What TeamWeave Is
TeamWeave helps teams develop the skills, practices and culture that support more human-centred ways of working, stronger performance and greater fulfillment at work.
We begin by supporting teams to establish a regular check-in practice. For many teams, the practice on its own is all they choose to do. Others choose to take the skills and cultural foundations further. Both approaches are valid and depend on the context and needs of each team.
For teams that want to go further, we help bring the skills and cultural qualities from check-ins into everyday work, and support teams to notice and measure what is developing in their workplace so they can stay aligned with their desired outcomes.
In this way, check-ins offer a simple, accessible way for teams to strengthen culture, build capability and grow the kind of performance and workplace experience they want - together.
What We Do
Free resources to support team check-ins and to help bring the resulting skills and cultural qualities into everyday work. This includes the foundational Guide to Team Check-ins for Workplaces.
Team workshops and facilitated check-ins.
Training and coaching for teams wanting additional support.
Measurement and reflection tools and support to help teams understand what is developing in their workplace and stay aligned with their desired outcomes.
Where TeamWeave Came From
Hear the founder share the inspiration behind TeamWeave.
Solid Foundations: Building on Real-World Success
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While TeamWeave is new, its foundations come from lived practice and experience.
Founder Stephen Cole has taken part in more than 600 check-ins over the past 20 years and has led over 180 of them, in both work and personal contexts. These experiences have contributed to a deep understanding of how human-centred practices strengthen trust, communication and team culture.
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Stephen applied these approaches in his previous business, Integral Consulting Engineers.
During the three years that the business was actively growing (2021–2023), it expanded from one person to a team of six, and returned an average net profit of 9.2%of revenue each year, in addition to his professional wage. This was a healthy and sustainable outcome for a small Australian engineering consultancy, especially while learning and implementing a new way of working.
Over the same period, the business also paid a staff profit share averaging 14.7% of base salary each year. While profit sharing is not necessary for developing a check-in culture, it helps to show that this human-centred way of working can also be financially sustainable.
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The check-in process was a central part of the environment at Integral Consulting Engineers.
As outlined in the free guide, check-ins help develop the human skills that underpin effective teamwork, including listening, authentic communication, presence, empathy and leadership. These are early indicators of stronger team capability.
Check-ins also help build the cultural foundations needed for great teamwork, such as trust, psychological safety, connection and belonging.
These skills and cultural qualities support improvements in engagement, collaboration, performance and job satisfaction. As they take root they can flow into broader business outcomes including productivity, client satisfaction, retention and quality of work.
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TeamWeave draws on many years of lived practice with teams and group processes, including extensive experience with team check-ins.
Through this experience, we’ve learned not only what helps build trust, connection and performance, but also what can get in the way. Practices like check-ins can fall flat, feel forced, or even create tension if they’re introduced without care, skill or the right conditions.
TeamWeave builds on these lessons by supporting teams to establish check-ins in a grounded and appropriate way for their context.
From there, teams can choose whether and how they want to extend the skills and cultural qualities that develop through team check-ins into everyday work, leadership and decision-making - at a pace that feels right for them.
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Who We Support
TeamWeave is designed for teams and leaders who want to work in more human-centred ways and experience greater fulfillment and connection at work.
We support:
• Whole organisations or individual teams
Many larger organisations begin with one team, then expand once the practice has been trialled and understood.
• Teams participating together
Our programs are designed for whole teams to learn together. The exception is the Leaders Learning Program, which is for formal and informal leaders.
• Teams working with Teal or next-stage models
TeamWeave integrates well with Teal and other next-stage approaches to organisational development.
• Teams new to check-ins or wanting to go deeper
It is suitable for people with no prior experience, as well as those who want to deepen the practice and extend the culture and skills into everyday work.
• Coaches and consultants
The Check-ins Guide can be used as a resource to support the teams you work with, integrating check-ins into your existing approach in whatever way best suits your context.
Next Steps:
Have questions? You can download the free Check-in Guide to learn more, or email us to book a free Enquiry Call.
