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Frequently asked questions
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Because more and more people need to reinvent themselves multiple times throughout their lives and build less rigid career paths. That's why Knowmads Teammasters doesn't just focus on improving communication skills; it aims to help you understand the environment, redefine your value proposition, and sustain your development over time with methodology and teamwork.
Specifically, working as a knowledge nomad (knowledge + nomad) helps you to be more adaptable, more relevant, and more capable of creating opportunities instead of waiting for them to appear on their own.
A nomad conceived in this way develops adaptability, systemic thinking, intergenerational intelligence, intercultural competence, and autonomous and collaborative learning.
Knowmads: The Workers of the Future - Animated Summary of Raquel Roca's Book
https://youtu.be/Z-NsDwwSsoM?si=gQqBhED1NBd9vo6B
Today , we need something more comprehensive than a public speaking course and more actionable than peer mentoring or one-on-one coaching. That's why Teammasters combines communication practice, career design, coaching, peer learning, and mentoring. Specifically, it's an online journey, in small groups with one-on-one sessions, to redesign your career, strengthen your voice, and move forward with greater clarity.
The first step is to complete the 1:1 Starting Point . There, we review your journey, your goals, and your current situation, and determine if the Boost Path is the best next step for you. Since we work with small groups, this session also helps you prepare and arrive with greater clarity when spaces reopen.
Because Toastmasters proved for years the value of learning by speaking, taking on roles, and receiving useful feedback, we were inspired by their method. However, as Toastmasters experts, we saw that it needed some refinement. That's why Teammasters takes from them the discursive practice, challenge-based progression, role rotation, evaluation, and gradual development of confidence and leadership. Specifically, Teammasters is inspired by and refines the Toastmasters method, expanding it with career modeling, training, habit formation, accountability, and one-on-one coaching.
Because we believe people progress best when they start with focus. That's why the 1:1 Starting Point allows us to define your current situation, your goals, your career and training plan, and align expectations about the journey. So when you enter the Boost Path , you don't start from scratch: you start with direction.
You'll leave with a personalized roadmap outlining your focus, goals, and next steps for your career and training. You'll also gain greater clarity about your current situation, a better understanding of the Teammasters method, and a solid foundation to begin taking action.
And, if you later want to join a group, you've already taken the admissions step.
No. The 1:1 Starting Point has value in itself because it helps you understand where you are, what you want to build, and how to move forward more clearly. Therefore, although it also serves as an admissions process, you can do it as a standalone experience and then decide, with a roadmap in hand, if you want to join a longer journey.
Yes. The 1:1 Starting Point can be done at any time of year, because its value doesn't depend on there being an open cohort: it helps you gain clarity, organize your current situation, and leave with a roadmap to start taking action right now. Since the groups are small and not always forming, doing it earlier also puts you in a better position for future admission and for reserving your spot when the next session opens.
Not always. Because we work with small groups and carefully curate the experience, cohorts aren't always open. That's why it's a good idea to complete your 1:1 Starting Point consultation first: it helps you gain clarity and take action today, and it also prepares you to apply or reserve your spot when the next course opens.
This approach allows you to organize key questions about what you contribute, for whom you generate value, with whom you ally, how you position yourself, what you need to strengthen, and where it is convenient for you to project yourself.
We use our own career and training modeling methodology, inspired by visual and systemic approaches that help to read the professional trajectory as a set of relationships, value propositions, capabilities, opportunities, resources, costs and forms of sustainability.
Because the method works best when everyone creates value and doesn't just consume it, each participant commits to bringing presence, practice, listening, respect, confidentiality, and a willingness to try new ways of working. Specifically, the group grows when everyone takes ownership of their part: coming, participating, taking on a challenge, and contributing to the experience of others.
Many people arrive with profound questions about work, identity, and the future. That's why it's important to be clear: Teammasters is a space for guidance, development, practice, and professional support. Specifically, it can greatly help you organize your career and actions, but it doesn't replace therapy when what you need is a clinical or mental health approach.
This situation carries a distinct emotional and identity-related weight and deserves a specific framework. Therefore, it's advisable not to automatically conflate this case with the overall developmental trajectory.
Specifically, Teammasters can help you understand the situation and guide your next step, but if your main situation today is a separation, it's best to discuss it from the start to see if this is the best circuit or if you need another one and to join a particular cohort.
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