Rising Team helps leaders and their teams grow together by equipping managers to easily host meaningful team connection and development experiences focused on key leadership themes. These experiences are delivered via Rising Team kits, which include both science-based training for leaders and engaging, interactive experiences for teams. Equally effective for in-person, remote, or hybrid teams, our software does the work of a professional facilitator. So just hit Start and follow the prompts, and by the end of each session your team will feel more connected, learn key skills, and increase team effectiveness.

A subscription to Rising Team includes access to both Development Kits and Connection Kits.
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Here's a breakdown of how they are different:

Each kit covers a new leadership theme based on what research shows drives team success and engagement, such as Psychological Safety, Appreciation, and Clear Expectations.
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The kits all follow the same steps:

1. ‍Schedule the session with your team. Make time on your calendar to invest in yourself and your team. Average sessions run 90 minutes, and larger teams may take two hours. We recommend running a session every 4-6 weeks for the healthiest team dynamics.
2. Prepare for the session. We get you up to speed on the topic with just a half-hour or so of prep: read or listen to the research-based training articles, review a screencast of how the session will work, and try out the interactive exercise in advance.
3. ‍Run the session. You just click Start and follow the prompts. Our software takes care of everything including warmups, learning goals, interactive team activities, data summaries, reflections, and even countdown timers.

Connection Kits work the same way as Development Kits, only with less time commitment and more focus purely on team connection. We recommend alternating these with the Development Kits, and aim to do one or the other every 4-6 weeks.

All of the above! Rising Team sessions work whether everyone is in an office, everyone is remote, or some of each. What you need to make the session work is for everyone to have a device (laptop, phone, or tablet) and internet access.

Teams that complete at least three Rising Team sessions see a lift in nearly all team engagement metrics, including intent to stay at their company and how much they feel appreciated. More than 90% of our users say they learn something valuable, feel more connected, and believe they’ll work more effectively together as a team after the very first session.! And they say that these benefits grow with each session. So you can see results right away, and can also see increased value by consistently running Rising Team sessions.

In fact, using Rising Team addresses the issues that a recent McKinsey study* highlighted as the most important drivers of employee retention helping people feel valued, giving people a sense of belonging, and building trust and care among teammates.
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*The Great Attrition or the Great Attraction; The Choice is Yours - Sept. 2021

Each Rising Team Kit involves 5-30 minutes of prep time for the leader and 45 minutes - 2 hours for the team session. Your prep time is leadership training for you to learn the latest science around the theme, and the team time is what helps the team grow and connect. Team sessions average 90 minutes in length, and we recommend setting aside 2 hours if your team is larger (over 8 people) or tends to be talkative. (The more people you have on your team the more sharing and discussion will be involved.)

We recommend running a Rising Team session every 4-6 weeks for healthy team dynamics. Consistently investing in your own leadership development and your team leads to higher success and deeper connection over time.

We hear from some people that they are too busy to fit in time for these sessions. We know everyone has a lot going on! That’s why we made these sessions so compact. Three to four hours per quarter less than 1% of your time. In a world where nearly half of all employees are actively thinking about leaving their job in the next 3 to 6 months, Rising Team helps you address the human issues underlying this trend: helping people feel valued, giving people a sense of belonging, and building trust and care among teammates.
 
*Source: Gallup

We recommend that you assign team leaders and then send out our engagement survey to establish a baseline as to where things stand.
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Second, we offer an engagement survey to track how your team trends over time as you use Rising Team. It's a mini-survey with 14 standard employee engagement questions, and only takes a few minutes to fill out. The survey includes a field for “Team” so you will be able to see baseline data for each team. We recommend you first assign team leaders and then run the engagement survey before you run any team sessions to baseline where things stand. Then re-run it quarterly after that. Results are reported as averages and only shown when three or more people respond in order to preserve anonymity.

The Rising Team content is based on the latest science and research about what drives successful teams, blended with over 25 years of experience leading winning teams at some of the world’s top companies. Our content is developed by leadership experts with experience in a wide range of disciplines, from leadership, to career development, to DEI, and more. Development Kits include articles that reference the latest scientific research and expert perspectives.

Kits include proprietary team activities and assessments that have been developed by Rising Team specifically for each leadership topic.

Examples include quiz-style exercises (like Talents and Crisis Responder Types. These exercises have been designed to use self-reported results, rather than being scientific assessments, and are perceived to be highly accurate. Overall, they receive an average accuracy rating of 4.3 out of 5 (where 4 is accurate and 5 is very accurate).

All of the activities and assessments are tested by real teams before we launch them to ensure they meet our standards for usability, accuracy, and value.

For Connection Kits and Development Kits, we set the limit to 14 team members to keep the session to a reasonable length. Since the sessions involve active participation and sharing, keeping the size of the team to 14 or fewer ensures everyone gets time to talk and you can have a meaningful session within two hours. If you have a team that is larger than 14, you can split the team into smaller groups.

We also provide Jumbo Kits, which are designed for large teams. These kits work well for in-person offsites, all-hands meetings, and other large group settings and can handle up to 1,000 participants at a time. If you are interested in learning more, reach out to us at hello@risingteam.com.

Nope! Rising Team will adapt to whichever team members are on your team at the time of any given session. You start each session by sharing a link and a code with your team, so as long as you keep it to 14 or fewer people per session, you can always include just the current members of your team.

Visit the Admin tab to view a snapshot of your team members. From there, you can add or remove team members.

We don't recommend asking new team members to take past exercises until they have completed at least one live team session together with you. We recommend simply inviting them to join your next Rising Team session using the session URL and code. By virtue of joining a session, they will be added to your account.

That said, if you prefer that they do missed exercises first, you can go to the Admin tab and click “Add a new member” to invite them to Rising Team and then go to the Team tab, click on their name, and send invites to any exercises you want them to take.

After that, new team members can go to the Team tab and click on their name to see a list of prior team exercises and take each one.

You can do this for anyone who misses a session as well.

Yes — thanks for recommending Rising Team to others! Simply send them over to our website and have them get started. We’re also building out an official referral program. To refer a colleague, just email us at hello@risingteam.com and we'll pay you $75 for each referral who signs up.

Absolutely. When you first get started, out to us at simply sign up for all of the employees on the teams that report into you. You can then invite the individual managers to be team leads and use Rising Team with their own teams. You'll also get a rollup view across those teams. If you’ve already started using the product and want to add more teams, you can do so from your Admin tab or reach out to us at hello@risingteam.com and we’ll take care of it.

Yes! You can invite anyone on a team you lead where you are trying to build stronger connections and working relationships. This could include direct reports, cross-functional “dotted line” reports,  freelancers, interns, etc.

There are two ways to measure the impact of Rising Team:

First are the 4-question, in-session surveys we run at the end of each session. You can see those results in the Session Summary reports on the Reports tab.

Second, we offer an engagement survey to track how your team trends over time as you use Rising Team. It's a mini-survey with 14 standard employee engagement questions, and only takes a few minutes to fill out. We recommend you run a first survey before you run any team sessions to baseline where things stand, and then re-run it quarterly after that. Results are reported as averages and only shown when three or more people respond in order to preserve anonymity. They are also shared with your company admin, if applicable. Visit the Reports tab and select Engagement as the report type to send out the survey and check the results anytime.

No. You can assign any person on the team to facilitate the session by changing the Team Lead on your Admin tab. You can also invite another person, like an HR partner, to join your session and facilitate.
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That said, we highly recommend—especially for earlier career managers—that you do facilitate the sessions because it’s a great opportunity to practice key leadership skills around supporting and coaching your team members. Although it may be slightly outside of your comfort zone, the software makes it easy to practice these key skills by just following the prompts. (And if you’re already an expert facilitator, there’s still a lot of room to be creative in how you run the sessions.)

Team members see the same pages as the team lead sees throughout the session, so they can follow along and actively participate, including completing the assessments or activities. The team lead screens will contain facilitator tips and the ability to start or pause the countdown timer. Facilitators will often share their screen during the session, and it’s ok that your team will also see these facilitator tips on your screen, as sometimes they can offer helpful reminders if you miss something!

They will join the session in progress, with the rest of the team, and will be able to review the material and exercises they missed after the session concludes.

Yes, the results from your session are saved and you’ll have access to them as long as you’re subscribed to Rising Team.

All of the results from the exercises the team completes in the Rising Team sessions are available to you and the team on your Team tab as long as you are subscribed to Rising Team. All team members can see their individual responses, their teammates’ results, and an overview of the team as a whole. These detailed assessments of your team will help you more deeply understand each other and work better together, since you’ll know everything from preferred communication methods to top talents, to the resilience strategies people want to try.

Each kit will have a step for team members to share their reflections and action items, as well as fill out a required post-session feedback survey. After your session is completed, we'll email you a link to a report that contains those responses, as well as each person's results from the session's activity or assessment. These responses are included at an anonymous level in the Reports tab, which is shared with your company admin, if applicable.

Yes. If you'd like to change your responses to one of our exercises, visit the Team tab and select your name from the drop-down menu. Choose the kit and you'll see an Update button that allows you to retake the exercise.

Team members can see each others’ session results, including answers to the exercise questions, as well as answers to the reflection and action items prompts. After each team session is completed, all individual and team overview results are visible to everyone within that team from the Team tab (app.risingteam.com/team).
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You’re not able to see any information for teams that you’re not a part of, even if those teams are in the same company, unless individuals choose to share it with you. We do encourage people to share their results with others they work with outside of their direct team in order to improve working relationships across organizations. You can share your results with anyone by clicking Share on any of your own results pages on the Team tab.
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For teams that are part of larger company-wide programs, your reporting chain and/or HR colleagues may have a rollup view of your team’s data. These rollup views are anonymized, so administrators of the program can see results and comments, but without any names attached.

No. We never share or sell any data outside of Rising Team. We may periodically use aggregated data to highlight trends we see in the industry to help improve the future of work for everyone, but we’ll never share or sell any individual or company-level data.

Great questions! For answers to these questions and many more, please see our pricing page, which includes an overview of our pricing plans as well as a pricing-specific FAQ.

If you manage the Rising Team access for multiple teams, you'll have an Admin tab where you can add or remove team leads, add more admins, buy access for more employees, and manage billing.

While we don’t currently integrate with other platforms, it’s on our roadmap. We’re listening to our customers to determine their areas of highest need, so if something specific is important to you, please reach out to let us know.

There are a variety of ways that we can customize the product to work alongside your own leadership development materials and philosophies, including helping you develop your own custom kits. Reach out to us at hello@risingteam.com if you’d like to learn more.

We take your privacy and security very seriously. Rising Team is SOC2 Type 2 certified and we have been audited by an independent firm. For more information, including requesting a copy of our SOC2 report, please visit risingteam.com/security or email security@risingteam.com.