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Dan Hogan

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Dan Hogan: Urging All Teams to Do No Harm and Work as One®

"I don’t urge teams toward 'Oneness' because it’s a nice theory. I urge it because, after years in the field, I know it is the only sane and sustainable way to work."

40+ Years Experience | 7 Countries | 500+ Teams Served | 8 Books

Dan Hogan is a Certified Master Facilitator and the creator of Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT). Over four decades, he worked alongside 500+ teams in seven countries, helping leaders move beyond the "Battleground" of ego and into Reason’s "Classroom" of collaboration.

Now dedicated to mentoring, Dan has documented his field-tested methodology in an 8-book how-to series. These books are not abstract theories; they are practical roadmaps designed to help leaders and facilitators:
  • Recover from deep-seated conflict and mistrust.
  • Optimize good teams into high-performing units.
  • Establish foundational Work Agreements that actually stick.

Through the Right Choice Model and the RMT 5-Element Framework, Dan provides the tools necessary to build emotionally mature teams that Do No Harm and Work as One®. When you read a Right-Minded Teamwork book, you aren't just getting a guide; you’re gaining access to thousands of hours of real-world facilitation experience designed to bring sanity back to the workplace.


​Reason, Ego & the Right-Minded Teamwork Myth: The Philosophy and Process for Creating a Right-Minded Team That Works Together as One

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​The "Start Here" Guide for Every Team Path

If your team is stuck in the "Battleground" of ego-driven drama, you don’t need a social event—you need a Reason-driven mindset shift.
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The RMT Myth is the essential starting point, depending on your team’s immediate needs, for all four Right-Minded Teamwork Paths:
  1. Crisis Recovery Path: Navigating conflict and resolving root-cause dysfunctions.
  2. Optimization Path: Moving good teams from competence to greatness.
  3. Foundational Path: Establishing a solid “Work as One” base for new or reforming teams.
  4. Enterprise Path: Aligning multiple teams with a single, right-minded strategic plan.
All four journeys utilize the RMT 5-Element continuous-improvement process and the Right Choice Model.

Don't get overwhelmed by the full 8-book series below. Start here to understand the Do No Harm and Work as One® philosophy. This book introduces the remaining seven books, which provide specific teamwork processes that will ensure you and your team achieve the Work as One reality."

Stop the cycle of 'pretend' team building. Click "Buy Now" [the eBook Package is Free!] to begin your journey to a sane and sustainable way of working.
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Right-Minded Teamwork in Any Team: The Ultimate Team Building Method to Create a Team That Works as One

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The "Operator’s Manual" for the 5-Element Framework

Don’t use silly team games to fix your team. If the RMT Myth provided the mindset for 'Oneness,' this book provides the practical tools to make it a reality.

As the definitive "how-to" guide in the series, this book moves beyond surface-level fixes to implement the RMT 5-Element Framework. This is a tactical plan designed to transform real-world challenges into operational excellence—the absolute opposite of "pretend" team building.
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Use this manual to navigate the Foundational or Optimization paths by following step-by-step instructions to:
  • Establish a Business & Psychological Goal: Aligning team vision with right-minded thinking; Elements #1 & #2.
  • Create Work Agreements: The behavioral engine that resolves conflict and ensures mutual accountability; Element #3.
  • Launch a Team Operating System: A 90-day cycle that sustains high performance long after the initial workshop; Element #4.
  • Uplift Teammates: Moving from marginal performance to a "Work as One" reality; Element #5.
Stop settling for valueless exercises that leave your team unchanged. Click "Buy Now" to access the Facilitator’s eBook Package and start implementing the "Better Way" today.
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How to Facilitate Team Work Agreements: A Practical, 10-Step Process for Building a Right-Minded Team That Works as One

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Stop being a “referee.” Start demonstrating the way.
 
If your team is “stuck” despite having great goals, you are likely missing RMT’s Element #3: The Work Agreement. Without this element, your team lacks the necessary accountability engine to turn aspirations into sustainable performance.
 
Strengthen behaviors into a reliable Behavioral Engine. High-performance teamwork isn’t built through silly team games or parties; it is built through Work Agreements—your custom moral contracts that empower teammates to self-regulate during all team situations.
 
The Sustainable Performance Engine
 
Too many teams rely on flimsy “ground rules” that are posted on a wall and forgotten. In the Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT) framework, successful teams create and live by Work Agreements. These are emotionally mature, collective promises that teammates make to each other. They define exactly how teammates will act and behave during difficult situations, creating the foundation for true operational excellence.
 
A Proven, 10-Step Facilitation Process
 
This book provides a professional, field-tested methodology to help your team leave the "Battleground" of ego-driven drama and return to Reason’s "Classroom" of growth and team success. You will learn how to:
  • Identify Root Causes: Facilitate the "Identification Phase" to name the specific behaviors or processes currently stalling your progress.
  • Craft Your Promises: Create Process Agreements to clarify roles and Behavioral Agreements to define how you work together.
  • Install Accountability: Lead the team through a commitment discussion and install an interlocking accountability condition that persists long after the initial workshop.
The Power of Proof: A $350,000 Turnaround
 
Work Agreements aren’t theory. This book includes case studies, including one team that achieved a $350,000 cost savings and a 78% increase in teammate trust within 12 months by implementing their Work Agreements.
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Stop being a "referee" and start leading a self-correcting unit. This is more than a book; it is a Master Facilitator’s Toolkit designed to bring sanity back to your workplace.
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​Design a Right-Minded, Team-Building Workshop: 12 Steps to Create a Team That Works as One

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Stop playing “silly games.” Start designing a “real work” workshop.
 
Too often, well-meaning leaders think that "team-building games" will fix friction, but those are only pretend solutions. High-performance teamwork is built through a well-planned team process that addresses the team’s current, real-world challenges.
 
Teammates genuinely want to attend these workshops because they help design them. This 12-step process is a structured system that ensures your team addresses root-cause issues with practical, "fit-for-purpose" solutions.
 
What Makes This Practical?
 
This method produces tangible results because it focuses on the "Science" of strategic team building. Two specific elements ensure your workshop succeeds:
  • Addressing the Root Cause (Step 3): Unlike games that ignore causes by only addressing symptoms, this step guides you to look past surface-level bickering to find the true team need.
  • The Teammate Punch List: During the design phase, you conduct 1-on-1 interviews with every teammate. These insights are distilled into a Punch List—a powerful report that reflects what the team thinks and knows it needs.
When you use this approach, your teammates walk into the room knowing they aren’t being “subjected” to a program; they are participating in a custom design session they helped create.
 
The 12-Step Roadmap to Oneness
 
This book guides you through three vital phases:
  1. Phase 1: Contract (Steps 1–9): Uncover root causes, interview teammates, and finalize an agenda that naturally creates buy-in.
  2. Phase 2: Commence (Step 10): Facilitate the workshop with confidence.
  3. Phase 3: Carry On (Steps 11–12): Ensure the transformation lasts by tracking progress and repeating the 12-step cycle every 90 days for sustained growth.
 
Stop wasting time on "icebreakers." This is a complete Master Facilitator’s Toolkit designed to transform marginal results into operational excellence.
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​How to Apply the Right Choice Model: Create a Right-Minded Team That Works as One

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Stop reacting to drama. Start choosing the better way.
 
Team friction isn't an accident; it’s a choice.
 
To move beyond the "Battleground" of ego-driven drama, your team needs a mental map. How to Apply the Right Choice Model provides that map, offering a proven framework for Right-Minded Self-Regulation and operational excellence.
 
Team Performance is a Choice
 
Too many programs rely on “silly games” that fail to address real work challenges. This book is for leaders and teammates ready to accept that teamwork is a collective, agreed-upon choice. Every teammate is 100% responsible for how they respond to every situation. There is no compromise on this point.
Ally vs. Adversary: The Two Loops
 
The Model illustrates the only two options the Decision-Maker—the real you—has during difficult team situations:
 
  • The Adversarial Lower Loop: Chooses victimization and punishment. This path guarantees failure because teammates are too busy defending themselves.
  • The Ally Upper Loop: The sane response. Teammates take individual and collective accountability and find solutions by following Reason.
 
The Question That Changes Everything
 
At the heart of this system is a single, transformative question:
“How did I create, promote, or allow this difficult situation to happen?”
 
Answering this honestly is the key to Right-Minded Self-Regulation. It moves the conversation from “Who made the mistake?” to “How do we fix this?”
 
A Master Facilitator’s Toolkit
 
This is a complete digital package with reusable resources. You get the philosophy and the physical reminders that keep the model alive:
  • 30 Right-Minded Choices: A curated list of Reason’s attitudes and behaviors.
  • Printable 3×4 Cards: Small enough for a desk or pocket, featuring the “Create, Promote, or Allow” question.
  • Printable 8×11 Posters: To keep the Choice Model visible in your workspace.
  • Comprehensive Case Study: Learn how a struggling team transformed itself into a high-performing unit in 12 months.
 
Equip your team to follow Reason and live the philosophy of Do No Harm and Work as One®.
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7 Mindfulness Training Lessons: Improve Teammates' Ability to Work as One with Right-Minded Thinking

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​Reacting to Ego behavior? Role-model Reason’s mature work behavior instead.
 
Individual accountability to self-regulate is the secret to resolving team conflict.
 
These 7 Lessons are your “mental gym” for achieving the internal breakthrough required to transform your behavior in difficult situations. This is the personal development manual for the Decision-Maker within every teammate.
 
Rule Your Mind and Heart: Conflict into Collaboration
 
Too many team-building programs fail because they ignore the internal "mind talk" that fuels the Battleground. These lessons help you elevate awareness of your thoughts and choices. Calm mindfulness is the necessary condition for self-regulation and for experiencing a Moment of Reason—the only way to find real teamwork solutions.
 
Learn It to Live It
 
You cannot role-model accountability without first looking within.
 
By embodying these lessons, you eventually become a "Sensible Anchor" for the team. You move from being a victim of the Ego’s "Battleground" to becoming a student in Reason’s "Classroom," proving that Do No Harm and Work as One® is a better way to work together.
 
The 7 Lessons at a Glance:
  1. I am not upset for the reason I think: An internal breakthrough in perception.
  2. I accept and own my part: The core of individual accountability.
  3. My thoughts are never neutral: Recognizing the power of your inner dialogue.
  4. I forgive others and myself: Letting go of judgment and drama.
  5. I transform the effects: Shifting from helplessness to solution-finding.
  6. I adjust my thinking and behavior: The hallmark of mature work behavior.
  7. Difficulties are learning opportunities: Seeing every challenge as a way to grow.
 
The CCT: Your Training Companion
 
The most effective way to train your "mindfulness muscles" is to apply them to a challenging situation. This book uses the Constantly Complaining Teammate (CCT) as a case study to teach you how to apply these lessons.  Once you learn how to do that, you are ready to navigate any difficult personality or situation that comes your way.  
 
Get started today and start role-modeling the "better way" for yourself and your team.
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​Right-Minded Teamwork: 9 Right Choices for Building a Team that Works as One

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Don’t settle for adversarial work attitudes. Start choosing the better way.
 
Do you want teammates who Do No Harm and Work as One®? You can have it.
 
This book offers 9 Right Choices—universal principles that define your desired work attitudes. It has nothing to do with "right-brain" thinking; it has everything to do with your teammates' collective freedom to choose how they will behave as Allies, especially during difficult situations.
 
The Essential RMT Primer
 
This book is a fast, impactful read that moves beyond surface-level fixes to address the root cause of all poor or marginal teamwork: Choice.
 
When your team collectively adopts and adapts these choices, the answer to "What should we do?" always becomes: "Do No Harm and Work as One."
 
The 9 Right Choices at a Glance:
  1. Choose Reason: All teammates take responsibility for creating RMT.
  2. Behave as One: Making a heartfelt commitment to Oneness.
  3. Right-Minded Communication: Ends separateness attitudes and work silos.
  4. Meaningful Vision: Making your team's "dream" a reality.
  5. Work Agreements: The "glue" that brings people together as one.
  6. Critical Few: Doing the right things right (Focus).
  7. Mistakes Happen: Correct them; don't punish people (The Classroom).
  8. Conflict Happens: Shift from the Battleground to the Classroom.
  9. Recognition: Making it easy and rewarding to keep going.
 
A Team-Building Tool Kit
 
Application is always about the dialogue.
 
This book is a complete digital package that shows you how to lead those conversations:
  • The Team Survey: Use the included questionnaire to identify which choices your team needs and desires to apply first.
  • Focused Discussion: Use the "Leader and Teammate Actions" to guide you in creating custom Work Agreements.
  • Reusable Resources: Includes the exact survey and instructions used by master facilitators to measure and improve team alignment.
 
Download the package today and transform your team’s dialogue into a "Work as One" reality.
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Achieve Your Organization's Strategic Plan: Create a Right-Minded Team Management System to Ensure All Teams Work

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Stop guessing if your teams are aligned. Build a Team Management System.
 
Without a standard team-building process, you can’t be certain your teams are aligned.
 
This book provides a 4-phase process to create your customized Team Management System (TMS). It’s like your employee performance program, but for your teams. Do this, and you will be certain everyone is working together to achieve your strategic plan.
 
A Performance Program for Teams
 
RMT’s TMS operates like an employee performance management system at the team level:
  • Set Goals: Every team sets performance goals aligned with the organization's strategic plan.
  • Measure Progress: Every quarter, teams measure and report their progress.
  • Demonstrate Gains: Within 12 months or sooner, your TMS provides evidence of enterprise-wide synergy and financial gains.
 
The 4-Phase TMS Roadmap
  1. Phase 1: Executive Leadership Launch: Leadership adopts RMT as the standard for itself and the organization.
  2. Phase 2: Pilot & Fine-Tune: A Steering Team adjusts the TMS in a 3–5 month pilot program.
  3. Phase 3: Rollout & Reporting: Quarterly results are reported as the rollout expands.
  4. Phase 4: Full Integration: The TMS becomes the stable phase for continuous growth.
 
Case Study: The 100-Day "Behavior Outage"
 
The Problem: A 500-person nuclear plant faced potential shutdown due to declining performance and a "conflict-avoidant" culture.
 
The Solution: The leadership team implemented a variation of RMT’s 4-Phase TMS process centered on Work Agreements and the Right Choice "Accountability" Model. Deploying those RMT tools, they successfully transformed the "victim culture" to one of fundamental individual and team accountability.
 
The Results: They Did It!
  • Operational Gains: Achieved a 21% reduction in refueling outage length (a massive cost savings!) and cleared a backlog of 1,410 corrective actions.
  • Strategic Success: Site-wide teams reported progress aligned with the new “accountable” vision, returning the plant to industry-leading standards.
 
An Organizational Development Facilitator's Toolkit
 
This package is designed for large-scale change and includes many reusable resources.
Start now. Transform your organization from a collection of silos into a single, high-performing unit that Works as One.
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