Influential U

10-WEEK TRAINING

XTC

Xtreme Team Collaboration

Know your value.

Know you're valued.

Influential U

Next cohort starts Thursday, 31 July 2025

The cohort is limited to 25. Registration deadline is Friday 18 July 2025
OPEN ENROLLMENT

Ten-Week Training

Take XTC training for teams and go higher together.

XTC (Xtreme Team Collaboration) is a professional development program built on the battle-tested business curriculum offered by Influential U since 2009. With successful implementations spanning Fortune 500 companies to startups, and universities to nonprofit organizations, XTC is now available as an open enrollment training for individuals or colleagues from various companies. This groundbreaking program is ideal for professionals seeking to transform team dynamics and elevate organizational performance. Our proprietary IP provides teams with an innovative, functional framework to increase productivity and solve chronic problems that cause organizational bottlenecks and breakdowns.

Enhance Performance
Boost Morale
Inspire Inclusion
Create Value

Join us for a 10-week program featuring 75-minute sessions designed to foster extreme team collaboration and transform how you and your team work together.

Talk to an XTC trainer.

The thinking model of XTC provides new insights into the persistent problems that plague most organizations.

— Dan Murphy, Senior Director of DevOps, Western Digital
Trisha Tyler

Simon Chesney

Western Digital

Agile only really delivers value when teams learn to collaborate effectively and team members share an awareness of the cost as well as the value they can be to one another. And that requires a level of transactional competence.

Tim Swann

Marika Meertens

Western Digital

XTC has provided our team with the language and framework to communicate more effectively with each other, hold more efficient and productive meetings, and appreciate the value each person brings to the team. I am feeling more confident in my role and my personality, and I’m feeling more optimistic about reaching our team’s aims.

Fred Overmars

Tim Morrissey

Western Digital

In my opinion, XTC provides you with the mechanics lacking in other teamwork assessments that simply identify (personality) types and how those styles work without providing a deeper understanding of how to work together.

Khush Cooper

Jeff Whaley

Western Digital

XTC is very relevant to people who work in complex organizations. The knowledge acquired will improve your daily interactions forever.

Fred Overmars

Jonathan Haines

Western Digital

This course opened my eyes as to why, though I was able to lead a compliant group to solve some problems, I was unable to consistently get the organization around me to embrace the solutions that we wrought.

Enhance leadership.
Leverage diversity.
Accelerate accomplishments.

What makes XTC different?

First, it’s simplicity. XTC breaks down the complexity of all kinds of work into fundamental principles, helping individuals and teams quickly identify the roles and activities where they thrive.

Second, XTC is built for real-world collaboration. Unlike typical personality tools that focus on self-awareness, XTC goes a step further by showing how to apply these insights to improve teamwork. It provides practical tools to enhance team dynamics, streamline projects, run better meetings, and make smarter hiring decisions.

Simply put, XTC combines Influential U’s proven approach with real-world applications to create a simple, effective framework for improving productivity and teamwork. It’s the fastest way to unlock your strengths, align your team, and transform how work gets done.

A Guided Approach

This ten-session course equips teams to embrace individual and collective strengths to achieve faster results with less friction. By focusing on real-world application, XTC uses a simple behavioral framework to help teams work smarter, not harder.

Participants will discover how to leverage their unique behaviors within a collaborative framework. This guided approach improves team performance by fostering alignment, boosting cohesion, and ensuring success. Every interaction is treated as an exchange, and XTC teaches teams how to execute these exchanges effectively to achieve their most important goals.

Program Design

The XTC course combines learning with immediate action. Over 10 weekly sessions, participants gain skills that directly apply to their most critical objectives, reinforcing what they learn through real-world practice.

This hands-on approach ensures participants leave with practical tools, stronger collaboration skills, and a clearer path to success. XTC is designed to drive performance, improve team alignment, and deliver results that matter.

Join XTC today to transform how your team works—and what your team achieves!

Talk to an XTC trainer.

Learning Objectives

  • Addressing the “Human Challenge”: Develop the adaptability to match the pace of market changes.
  • Enhancing Leadership and Buy-In: Equip managers with tools to secure buy-in and uncover untapped leadership potential and resources.
  • Leveraging Personality and Diversity: Unlock team alignment, diverse leadership styles, and improved effectiveness.
  • Preparing for Growth: Enable scalable collaboration across teams and departments.
  • Accelerating Execution: Reduce timelines for task completion, project delivery, and product or service launches.

WEEK 1

Foundations of Team Collaboration

Topics Covered:

  • Introduction to XTC and the Influential U Framework
  • Biological, Linguistic, and Transactional Foundations
  • Establishing Team Aims and Vital Outcomes
Activities:
  • LMS Worksheet: Articulate team aims within specific ecologies
  • Homework: Identify a vital outcome that impacts team performance

WEEK 2

Understanding "The Current" and Team Dynamics

Topics Covered:

  • Exploring "The Current" and its influence on collaboration
  • Allegiances, Alliances, and Overlords
  • Personality and Behaving Transactionally™
Activities:
  • Group Exercise: Map team allegiances and alliances
  • Homework: Reflect on how individual personalities impact team dynamics

WEEK 3

Identifying Breakdowns and Solutions

Topics Covered:

  • Recognizing substantial breakdowns and personality looping
  • Articulating actionable solutions for these breakdowns
  • Ethical Influence: Balancing Influence and Compliance
Activities:
  • Worksheet: Map current team challenges and brainstorm solutions
  • Role-Play: Practice ethical influence strategies

WEEK 4

Specifying Ecologies and Customers

Topics Covered:

  • Understanding and defining the team’s ecology
  • Identifying “customers” (stakeholders, departments, or internal team members)
  • Building and Expanding Influence Ecologies
Activities:
  • Activity: Map the team’s ecology
  • Homework: Draft approaches to engage specific stakeholders effectively

WEEK 5

Mapping the Transaction Cycle

Topics Covered:

  • Inventing and mapping the transaction cycle for team collaboration
  • Defining phases and moves of the cycle
  • The Narratives of a Transaction: Understanding Mood, Personality, and Sequence
Activities:
  • Worksheet: Draft the transaction cycle outline for a team project
  • Homework: Test the cycle with team members and refine accordingly

WEEK 6

Applying Focus, Concentration, and Accurate Thinking

Topics Covered:

  • Strategies for maintaining focus and clarity
  • Accurate Thinking in General and Specialized Knowledge
  • Leveraging concentration to accelerate outcomes
Activities:
  • Activity: Practice techniques to enhance concentration
  • Homework: Research and apply new knowledge to refine team aims

WEEK 7

Building Influence Ecologies and Cooperation

Topics Covered:

  • Building and expanding influence ecologies
  • Securing buy-in and support for team initiatives
  • Leveraging diversity for innovation and success
Activities:
  • Workshop: Identify and engage key ecologies for achieving team aims
  • Homework: Develop a PSTI plan for nurturing influence ecologies

WEEK 8

Analyzing Environmental and Transactional Factors

Topics Covered:

  • Analyzing the environment and its impact on team collaboration
  • Identifying external and internal factors that influence success
  • Understanding the environment’s role in achieving aims
Activities:
  • Worksheet: Analyze environmental factors impacting the team
  • Group Reflection: Discuss findings and insights

WEEK 9

Knowing Requires Doing

Topics Covered:

  • The relationship between "Knowing" and "Doing" in achieving team aims
  • Fitness Requires Practice: Building competence through consistent action
  • Deliberate Practice: The key to refining skills and achieving mastery
Activities:
  • Exercise: Develop a practice plan to strengthen transactional competence
  • Homework: Implement deliberate practice in real-world team scenarios and reflect on results

WEEK 10

Reviewing and Presenting Team Outcomes

Topics Covered:

  • Reflecting on team progress and refining processes
  • Sharing team outcomes and next steps
  • Celebrating successes and addressing growth areas
Activities:
  • Team Presentations: Showcase key outcomes and plans
  • Group Celebration: Reflect on progress, knowledge, and actionable insights
  • Final LMS Worksheet: Feedback and program reflections

Talk to an XTC trainer.

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Suite 300
Oxnard, California
93036
+1 (805) 285-2900

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