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The Power of a Positive Team: Transform Your Culture, Elevate Your Results

Great Teams Don’t Happen by Accident

In today’s high-stakes, high-stress environments, team culture can either be your greatest asset—or your greatest threat.

That’s why we’re excited to offer “The Power of a Positive Team” workshop experience—based on the bestselling book by Jon Gordon and delivered by CoachFoss.

Why Team Positivity Matters

It’s not about fake smiles or toxic positivity. It’s about building trustconnectionresilience, and a shared commitment to greatness.

Positive teams:

  • Navigate adversity better

  • Communicate more effectively

  • Build stronger trust and collaboration

  • Drive higher performance and engagement

  • Create environments where people want to stay and grow

The Team is the STAR! The Power comes from the Team!

About the Workshop

CoachFoss brings real-world leadership experience and powerful facilitation to this transformative session. Backed by Jon Gordon’s proven framework, this workshop is designed to help your team:

✅ Define a shared vision and purpose
✅ Identify toxic behaviors and replace them with productive habits
✅ Develop deeper trust and stronger connection
✅ Navigate conflict with clarity and respect
✅ Commit to being a positive influence every day

“Your team is your competitive advantage. Positivity fuels performance.”

What to Expect

The Power of a Positive Team workshop is:

  • 💥 Engaging: Interactive activities, reflection, and real-time application

  • 💡 Practical: Grounded in Jon Gordon’s tools that your team can use immediately

  • 🔄 Transformational: Shifts mindset, energy, and behaviors from the inside out

An enthusiastic and connected TEAM will go FAR!

Session Formats:

  • Half-day or full-day workshops

  • Virtual or in-person delivery

  • Customizable for your team’s needs

Who Should Attend?

Any team that wants to move from fractured to focused, from burned out to bought in, from good to great:

  • Executive Teams

  • Cross-functional Teams

  • Sports Teams

  • Departments undergoing change

  • Growing organizations seeking culture alignment

  • From Large Corporations to Small Business

  • Non-Profit Organizations

Led by CoachFoss

CoachFoss is a dynamic facilitator and leadership transformation expert. With decades of experience developing high-performing teams, he brings energy, passion, and real-life insight to every engagement.

“This workshop gave us clarity, unity, and tools we could use right away. CoachFoss challenged us and brought us together.” – Team Leader, Manufacturing Sector

“You don’t build a great team by chance. You build it with purpose.”

Ready to Build a More Positive, High-Performing Team?

Let’s talk.
📩 Schedule a workshop
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📍 Available virtually or on-site

Great teams don't happen by chance. They are built by choice.
— CoachFoss

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Why Continuous Improvement (KAIZEN) and Lean Six Sigma are still KING!

“We can't solve our problems with the same thinking that created them”

~Albert Einstein

  • Do you have challenges with hiring great people?

  • Do you have difficulty with staff performing to expectation?

  • Do you struggle to achieve high levels of quality consistently?

  • Are you performing >99% and do you think that is good enough?

  • Do you encounter unknown variance in your product or service performance?

  • Are your customers <100% satisfied?

  • Do you know where your defects come from?

  • Are you aware of all the costs of your defects?

  • Are you excelling in your financial goals?

  • Are you able to offer the lowest prices to your clients, pay top dollar to your staff, and still make profit?

  • Are you tired of throwing money, resources, and assets, at symptoms that never seem to truly fix the problem?

I have THE proven solution!

“The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we don’t recognize.”

~Shigeo Shingo, the world’s leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System.

If you are not where you want to be in any of the following areas, I have THE proven solution!

  • People

  • Quality

  • Customer Service / Experience

  • Efficiency

  • Productivity

  • Profit

As an Industrial and Systems Engineer with a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and having deep and extensive experience over the past 25+ years leading continuous improvement divisions in some of the most complex operating environments, I can share without a doubt the #1 key to achieving operational excellence is through a sound, solid, and committed approach to continuous improvement (KAIZEN) with Lean Six Sigma tools.

What is Continuous Improvement (KAIZEN)?

The Japanese word “KAIZEN” means change (KAI) to become good (ZEN) and is recognized worldwide as an integral pillar of an organization’s long term competitive strategy towards operational excellence. Companies in all sectors and industries are excelling using these tools and approach.

Continuous Improvement is built on small changes sustained over time for big results and is most successful based on these guiding principles:

  1. Full leadership buy-in

  2. Good practices bring good results (You will reap what you sow! Always!)

  3. Take action to contain and correct root causes of problems

  4. Speak with data, manage by facts

  5. Work as a team

  6. Unleash the power of consistency

  7. Implement changes with systems and mechanisms for sustained improvement

  8. Full ownership

“Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement.”

~Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer, considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System.

I have had the most amazing pleasure to work with some of the very best in the continuous improvement business and lead some of the biggest global improvement projects in large and small companies like FedEx, Cameron International, and Amazon.

Many companies today are looking for the “silver bullet” to drive the next major innovation or industry disruptive change that will send shockwaves throughout the industry sector. While the silver bullet eludes most, the secret to sustained improvement may also unlock a major leap forward in your business and industry. Lean Six Sigma tools continue to be the most complete and rewarding approach for continuous improvement (Kaizen), yielding amazing results over time.

Example: Through a weeklong Kaizen event, by improving safety performance in the trailer yard within Amazon Sort Centers, the Kaizen team unlocked opportunities to improve dock door utilization with technology that scaled to all global locations in both the middle mile and first mile. This resulted in significant improvements in safety, efficiency, productivity, and capacity utilization across the entire company and the team won the innovation of the year award!

“There is no elevator to success… you have to take the stairs.”

~Zig Ziglar

 

 The right approach combined with excellent leadership and enthusiasm is key to long-term success. There is nothing that can stop a team from success when they are hungry, driven, enthusiastic, possess a CAN-DO attitude, and are properly equipped to meet the challenge.

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

~ Zig Ziglar

Start your journey towards SUSTAINED SUCCESS with the continuous improvement fundamentals training. We also have partnered with Adonis Partners to certify you and your team in the belts of Lean Six Sigma. Engage with our team in a full week Kaizen event and see the power of continues improvement!

“Potential is one of the most powerful words in any language. It looks forward with optimism, it heralds hope. It implies possibilities and it unveils greatness. And to reach your potential, you must grow.”

~John C. Maxwell

This works! Contact us today to book your journey!

https://coachfoss.com/contact

Never give up & Never Settle!

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The MINDSET to be Your Very BEST!
 
CoachFoss BLOG Michael Foss 2 The Mindset to be Your Very Best Arnold Schwarzenegger Bo Eason
 

Do you want to be your very best?

Do you want to take control of your life, regardless of external circumstances, and live up to your full potential?

Do you want to release the full maximum level of greatness that is already within you?

I sure do! I want there to be NO GAP between the man I am intentionally becoming and the man I God created me to be.

This is a story that is worth repeating. Stories are what we tell ourselves and eventually become. And your story comes from your mindset, your belief system.

And it is a choice!

To be the best, you must choose the right mindset!

A success mindset.

A mindset of growth, positivity, and forward thinking.

 
CoachFoss BLOG Michael Foss 1 The Mindset to be Your Very Best Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

In a recent presentation, Arnold Schwarzenegger shared his key mindset of full commitment that led to his tremendous success in achieving his big goals.

Arnold shared:

“I hate Plan B!”

Everything he ever did, the thing he heard out of everyone’s mouth was: ‘that’s impossible, that can’t be done, and no.’

Arnold continued:

“We have so many doubters and naysayers. And when you doubt yourself, that is very dangerous, because now what you’re basically saying that if my plan does not work, I have a fall-back plan. I have a Plan B.”

And when you have a Plan B, it takes thought, energy, drive, and tenacity, away from your Plan A.

When people said to Arnold, he changed it in his mind to:

It can’t be done => It CAN be done

No => YES

It’s impossible => It IS possible

Arnold never had a Plan B. He made a full commitment toward his goals and went all in.

  • To be a bodybuilding champion

  • To get into show business and be leading man

  • To be governor of California

 

NO PLAN B!

Bo Eason

 

I recently read Bo Eason’s book “There’s no Plan B for your A-game”. In this book, Bo explains how to develop the character, integrity, and commitment it takes to become the best.

Bo’s four step process to attain skill, maintain effort, and persist through challenges covers four key mindsets needed to become the best!

  1. Declaration

  2. Preparation

  3. Acceleration

  4. Domination

Bo says when you make your declaration to be your best, you have to adapt the mindset towards your declaration, in effect, change the way you think about your own identity. This requires your mindset to be intimate and profound with your future best self.

I highly recommend Bo’s book!

It all comes down to your mindset!

Start by asking yourself, what does your life look like with you at your very best?

What does your greatness look like with you at your best?

Dream big and be audacious! Begin to envision a life at your very best. See it. Feel it. Believe it. Replace the old thought pattern with where you now see yourself at your very best!

It’s time to think differently about yourself and your future. Now is the time!

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw

Never give up and Never Settle!