Surface the hidden signal
People contribute independently before discussion, so uncommon facts, risks, and objections enter the room before consensus forms.
Every team’s storm looks different. The stall looks the same.
A growth choice deferred for months. A reorg that landed faster than clarity. A room where the loudest voice decides. The storms differ; the stall repeats:
- The same topic returns with a new calendar invite
- Priorities multiply while tradeoffs stay implicit
- The first confident voice frames every problem
- Change arrives faster than the team can absorb it
- Status stays green until the deadline turns red
- Everyone leaves aligned; nobody leaves accountable
TAME Your Storm™ for Teams is a working session, not training. Your team works one live decision inside the storm and leaves with a decision map, named owner, safeguards, and a scheduled first move.
What the room leaves with
- One consequential decision clearly framed and mapped
- Facts, risks, and objections surfaced before hierarchy anchors the room
- Explicit criteria, decision rights, a named owner, and safeguards
- A first move within 48 hours and a two-week evidence review
Better decisions start with better information
Team expertise creates value only when it reaches the decision. Open discussion favors what everyone already knows; hierarchy and the first confident voice can narrow what gets said. The TAME Your Storm™ methodology changes the information flow before debate begins: anonymous pre-work, silent parallel capture, explicit criteria, and leaders speaking last.
Creator and credentials
David Azofeifa created the TAME Your Storm™ methodology and is the author of the forthcoming TAME Your Storm™ book. His background includes a post-graduate program in AI and Machine Learning (University of Texas at Austin); a Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology; Project Management Professional (PMP certification #1460415) through PMI; SIOP Associate Member (ID #123741); a Bachelor’s in IT for Business Management; and 25 years designing data and AI systems for global organizations.
Turn disagreement into criteria
The team separates facts, assumptions, and fears, then compares options against explicit business criteria — not status or volume.
Convert alignment into evidence
The room leaves with an owner, safeguards, and a time-bound first move that can be checked rather than merely remembered.
Decision rights stay with the leader. The process improves the information those rights act on.
A stalled team keeps charging the business
The visible cost is another meeting. The larger cost is delayed work, duplicated effort, cautious reporting, and capable people learning that ownership is optional. TAME Your Storm™ for Teams replaces that drag with a decision the team can act on.
One decision. One owner. One first move.
Start with one real decision
No rollout. No per-seat training. The program proves its value on work your team already needs to move. Most teams begin with the three-hour workshop; broader support follows only when useful. Priced per team. Delivered along the Wasatch Front or remotely anywhere.
3 hours · 4–12 people
Live Decision Workshop
The best first engagement. One consequential decision goes in; a decision map, named owner, safeguards, and scheduled 48-hour first move come out.
Full day · 6–20 people
Team Intensive
For decisions with more stakeholders or interdependencies. The team works the full method, builds shared operating language, and keeps a practical follow-through loop.
Monthly · after first workshop
Operating Rhythm
For teams that need the discipline to stick. A facilitated monthly decision cycle and storm register make ownership and evidence part of normal operations.
What happens before, during, and after
Light preparation. One disciplined working session. Follow-through that tests whether movement happened.
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Choose the decision
A 30-minute scoping call distills whatever you bring into one consequential, decidable decision. Each participant then completes 10 minutes of anonymous pre-work.
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Work the decision
The team surfaces information in parallel, agrees on criteria, maps a route, names decision rights and an owner, adds safeguards, and schedules the first move.
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Prove movement
A 48-hour check confirms the first move. A 30-minute review two weeks later examines evidence, adjusts the map, and gives the sponsor a clear read on follow-through.
The TAME Your Storm™ Method protects decision quality
Four gates stop a team from jumping from pressure to premature action. Everyone writes before discussion, then moves from signal to criteria, ownership, and evidence.
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Transcribe
Surface the signal
Silent, parallel capture puts more of what the team knows on the wall before title, volume, or speed can edit it. Paper doesn’t know your title.
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Assess
Make criteria explicit
Separate fact, assumption, and fear. Compare options against reality, purpose, simplicity, integrity, and connection.
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Map
Make ownership inspectable
Name the route, owner, decision rights, constraints, milestones, and safeguards so accountability is visible.
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Execute
Create evidence quickly
Schedule one responsible first move within 48 hours — small enough to survive the calendar, meaningful enough to teach the team.
Let’s tame your storm — together
You bring the decision and the people who can move it; we bring the method. We work it side by side, and your team leaves with a mapped decision, named owner, safeguards, and a scheduled first move — an outcome built into the TAME Your Storm™ for Teams method and artifacts.
Best when the decision is real — and decidable
Bring a decision with business consequences, relevant information distributed across the team, and a sponsor with the authority and genuine intent to move it. A storm bigger than one decision is normal — the scoping call finds the decision inside it.
When this is not the right room
- The central issue is personnel, a legal matter, or an acute crisis.
- The decision is already made and the workshop is expected to manufacture buy-in.
- The decision owner will not be in the room or does not intend to act.
Leadership teams with ambiguous priorities, repeated escalations, or decisions that keep reopening.
Cross-functional groups balancing customer urgency, technical constraints, operational reality, and risk.
Founder-led or change-heavy teams where hard calls bottleneck and useful information stays siloed.
The questions leaders actually ask
What kind of decision should we bring?
Bring one that matters, is genuinely stuck, and can be moved by the people in the room: a priority tradeoff, launch decision, operating change, ownership question, or cross-functional choice. Personnel, legal, and crisis decisions belong elsewhere.
We already run EOS, OKRs, or Agile. Why this?
Keep them. They organize execution; TAME Your Storm™ for Teams improves the decision entering the system by surfacing risks, making criteria explicit, and clarifying ownership. Better input, same operating engine.
Is this corporate therapy in disguise?
No. This is an educational, decision-focused working session built around facts, risks, options, ownership, and dates. It is not therapy, diagnosis, crisis support, or a substitute for qualified professional care.
Why does everyone write before leaders speak?
Parallel capture prevents the first voice from framing the entire choice and gives each person room to contribute what only they know. Leaders still retain decision rights; they decide after seeing more of the team’s information.
We’re remote and hybrid. Does this work on Teams or Zoom?
Yes. Anonymous pre-work, parallel capture, explicit criteria, and visible ownership translate cleanly to a digital room. In person along the Wasatch Front; remote anywhere.
Bring the storm your team keeps circling
Describe it in two sentences — a stuck decision, a priority pileup, a stalled change. You will receive a reply within one business day with a candid assessment of whether TAME Your Storm™ for Teams fits, and a recommendation for the smallest useful engagement. Your message stays confidential.