Offerings
Individual and Team Consultations are offered by SWEET fellows who are WPI students, staff, faculty, and alumni with lots of project and teamwork experience, and additional training from WPI experts on effective and equitable teamwork. All Teamwork Support SWEET Center offerings are available for free to WPI undergraduate and graduate students.
Individual Consultations
Do you have ideas for how your team can improve your performance, but you’re not sure how to introduce them? Is your team having difficulty collaborating? Would you like to talk about your teamwork experience with someone who has been through their IQP and MQP already? The Teamwork Support SWEET Center hosts drop-in office hours via Zoom each week for WPI students seeking assistance with their teamwork. Whether you are dealing with a challenging teamwork issue, or are looking to take your teamwork from good to great, we can help! Come to one of our drop-in hours to talk with a SWEET fellow about what’s going on in your team. You may reach out to sweetcenter@wpi.edu to book an appointment.
Team Consultations
Team Consultations are a great way to re-focus the energy of a team. The consultation is facilitated by a SWEET staff member or fellow, and provides a space for teams to talk candidly about the challenges they are facing and set goals for the remainder of their collaboration. Team Consultations typically take a total of ~2 hours. The first hour-long meeting is spent talking initially with the entire team, and then individually with each team member about how the team is functioning. We then meet again within a week to discuss themes that came up in the individual conversations, steps that individuals within the team can take, and we help the team to develop goals and an action plan. The process is developmental in nature, and we seek to have the team create and own the solutions, with our facilitators guiding the process. Students receive a written summary of the consultation that they may opt to share with their faculty. Please reach out to sweetcenter@wpi.edu to make an appointment.
Performance Coaching
Student teams that have participated in a Team Consultation and have found it beneficial have the opportunity to continue to work with a SWEET fellow facilitator on a weekly or bi-weekly basis during their project term. Contact sweetcenter@wpi.edu for more information.
