frames at work, for teams
there’s a reason your team does that.
Every team has its patterns. The meeting where someone explains a point three times. The teammate who quietly rescues every project. The note in a review that lands far harder than anyone meant.
A Frames at Work session gives your team plain words for those moves, in one facilitated hour with Tedrick Wright, the founder of Framed Minds.
the safeguards, first
what every team session promises.
- Each person chooses. Joining the team map is a separate yes, after each person has read their own report. Anyone can leave it at any time.
- The team never sees answers. Not anyone’s scores, report, daily notes or conversations with Echo. Not the manager, not HR.
- Never used to judge anyone. A team map is never used to rate, rank, hire, select or promote.
- Nobody is required. Someone who would rather not take part can still come to the hour and listen.
you may recognize these
three moments from an ordinary week.
Behind each one is a move someone learned, for good reasons, that still runs when the room has changed. We call these moves Frames.
the meeting
someone over-explains.
The question was answered two minutes ago. They keep going, adding one more reason and one more caveat, so no one can find a gap.
For some people this is Proving: working to be seen as capable, so you are taken seriously. For others it is Guarding: keeping a wall up, so no one finds a gap. Only the person can tell which fits.
the project
someone rescues every project.
They stay late to fix what someone else dropped. They say yes before they check whether they can, and nobody else learns where things break.
We call that move Rescuing: solving other people’s problems, often before they ask.
the feedback
feedback lands hard.
One comment in a review, and someone goes quiet for the rest of the week. Someone else replays it on the drive home, or answers with a list of reasons.
Moves like Withdrawing, Replaying and Guarding often sit under moments like this.
None of these is a flaw, and none is a type. A Frame is a move, and the same person may lead with a different one next month.
what a team session is
one facilitated hour, with the founder.
Tedrick Wright leads it on a video call. It is built for a working team: a manager and the people they work with every day, from a handful of people up to 30 in one hour. A larger team, such as a 40-person company, meets in two or more groups.
- before
each person takes the introductory self-inventoryAbout five minutes, free, with a free Explorer account. Each person reads their own report first, on their own.
- their choice
each person decides what colleagues seeJoining the team map is a separate yes. The map shows a person’s name and their two leading Frames. It never shows scores, answers, reports or anything they say to Echo.
- the hour
the team sees its leading frames side by sideWhere the team’s moves meet, where they tend to collide under pressure, and one or two conversations worth having. Nobody has to say more than they want to.
- afterward
three months of frames at workThe team keeps its map, a private team conversation and a guide for its next meeting. Each person keeps their own account and report, whatever the team decides.
one activity from the hour
this week, in your own words.
The facilitator reads one ordinary moment aloud: a meeting runs long, and someone adds one more reason, then another, then one more.
Then one question for the room: “What does this look like for you this week?” People answer about themselves, in their own words, or pass.
The facilitator talks about moves, never about people. A Frame is offered as something a person might do (“that sounds like the move we call Proving. Does it fit?”), and only that person decides whether it fits. Nobody is told what they are, and nobody names a colleague’s Frame for them.
what your team keeps
three months of frames at work.
- The team map. Each person’s two leading Frames, which Frames lead across the team, how the team tends to work in meetings, under pressure and in decisions, and the pairs worth a conversation.
- A private team conversation. A space only your team can see, with the map inside.
- Echo’s reading of the team. Echo is an AI guide. It writes a short reading from the team’s Frames, never from anyone’s answers. The AI providers may not use what anyone writes to train their models, and the team’s map and everyone’s reports are stored on our hosting provider’s servers in the United States.
- A guide for a team meeting. A printable page to take one conversation further on your own.
- Each person’s own practice. Every colleague keeps a free Explorer account: their report and one small thing to notice each day for their leading Frame.
Anyone can leave the team map at any time, and their place on it disappears.
privacy at work, in plain words
what the team sees, and what it never sees.
What the team sees. Only the people who say yes to the team map, each with their name and their two leading Frames. Joining is a separate yes, after each person has read their own report.
What it never sees. Anyone’s answers, scores, report, daily notes or conversations with Echo. Not the manager, not HR, not the person who set up the team.
AI, and its limits. Each person’s report and Echo, the AI guide, are written with AI models from outside providers, and none of them may use what anyone writes to train their models. The AI never decides anyone’s Frames: the Self-Inventory is counted by a fixed rule. Echo’s reading of the team sees only how many people each Frame leads or comes second for, never names, answers or scores.
Saying no, with no pressure. The map shows only the people who joined and keeps no list of who did not. Anyone can leave it at any time. Someone who would rather not take part can still come to the hour and listen.
Afterward. Each person’s report stays in their own account until they delete it, whatever the team or the company decides. What happens to what you tell us names the AI providers and the rest.
who it is for
- Managers and team leads who want a kinder way to talk about how the team works
- People and HR leads looking for a conversation, not another assessment report
- Coaches and facilitators: please write to us first. Using Framed Minds with clients, or with a group of your own, needs a written agreement with us, as the Terms of Use say.
- Teams of any size. Larger teams join in groups of up to 30, so every group still has a real conversation.
what it is not
- Not a performance evaluation. A team map is never used to rate, rank, select or promote anyone.
- Not a hiring tool. Nobody should be asked to take it as a condition of a job.
- Not therapy, and not a clinical test. The Self-Inventory is a way of noticing, built from practice.
- Not required. Taking part is each person’s choice.
Want to know where the questions come from? How the Self-Inventory was built, and what it is not. And what happens to what you tell us.
talk with us about your team
tell us a little about your team.
Most teams start with one session. Tell us a little about yours, and we’ll send a simple quote within two working days. An inquiry is not a commitment: you decide from there, and nobody on your team is signed up for anything. Tedrick reads every note.
Thank you. We have your note. We reply to your work email within two working days.
not sure yet?
try it on yourself first.
A first glimpse is eight everyday moments, about two minutes, with no account. Your answers stay in your browser.
Framed Minds, LLC, Dallas, Texas. [email protected]