01/11/2025
One thing we hear again and again from EBW Assessment Partners working with senior teams:
“The room is quiet… but the tension is loud.”
Everyone's being polite.
No one’s pushing back.
And feedback? It's been repackaged as “considerations” or left unsaid entirely.
These aren’t broken teams. They’re experienced. Senior. Sophisticated.
But they’ve lost the ability to safely disagree - and to recover after they do.
What EBW Partners are seeing in the field
Across sectors, our partners tell us the same thing:
✅ Teams that perform well under pressure often avoid internal pressure
✅ Leaders filter feedback to avoid interpersonal risk
✅ Discomfort is misread as dysfunction — so it’s swept aside
✅ And psychological safety is assumed… until someone finally speaks up
That’s why the best teams don’t just need insight.
They need benchmarks and success road maps, with room for tension and recovery built in.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐁𝐖 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬
The EBW Team Assessment gives facilitators, coaches, and leaders something most tools can’t:
✅ A structured way to surface the emotional signals that shape real team behaviour
✅ Benchmark data to show how teams compare with top-performing norms - not vague ideals
✅ A practical set of design levers: Vision, Trust, Identity, Commitment, Communication, Working Together
✅ Ready-to-run session designs for everything from a one-day intervention to a 12-month executive programme
This isn’t about smoothing things over.
It’s about equipping teams with the insight, structure, and shared language to face friction head-on - without falling apart.
🛠𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝐔𝐩 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞
The best teams don’t avoid tension - they’re just equipped to navigate it.
So today we are sharing a practical tool based on research, used by EBW Assessment Partners worldwide, it helps teams surface unspoken expectations, manage power dynamics, and build emotional clarity from the start.
📥Get the free tool and start designing safer, stronger team sessions today
https://www.ebwglobal.com/your-free-ebw-global-team-tool?
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Because friction isn’t the risk.
Unspoken tension is.