About EnTeam – see intro video here
A new word was coined in 1995 to describe the process of creating win-win relationships among people — especially people with diverse backgrounds.
That new word is EnTeam – a verb: to engage people in making measurable improvements in the results they achieve when they need to work together.
EnTeam means collaborating to defeat impersonal opponents such as time, prejudice, fear, disease, ignorance, etc. The EnTeam process enables players to discover ways they can change win-lose rivalries into win-win relationships. Players who enteam see their results in a series of scores that measure whether their level of collaborative performance is increasing.
EnTeam Games challenge players who are on different teams — or come from different sides — to score goals by working together collaboratively. Both sides lose — or both sides win — depending on whether they can improve their collective performances.
As joy is to enjoy and as courage is to encourage, so team is to enteam.
EnTeam Organization Background
EnTeam Organization was founded as a non-profit enterprise in 1995 in St. Louis, Missouri by Ted Wohlfarth. Since then, EnTeam has served schools, after-school programs, businesses, families, camps, faith groups by providing collaborative games that increase productivity by strengthening social skills and academic skills.
EnTeam Games are designed to build players’ skills in developing their own strategies for strengthening their learning. EnTeam Games encourage players to bring out the best in each other by keeping score on a win-win basis — rather than a win-lose basis. EnTeam Games keep score of improvements in cooperative performances.
In traditional games, one side can only win if the other side loses. In EnTeam Games, both sides win — or both sides lose — depending on whether they can increase the combined scores they achieve in a series of games. To increase their scores, they must get better at helping each other.
Playing EnTeam Games helps people shift mindsets and create a new paradigms for competing against problems. EnTeam Games are competitive, but the competition is against an impersonal opponent (e.g. time, distance, prejudice, disease, fear, ignorance or other objective problem). The score is kept on a win-win-or-lose-lose basis instead of win-lose basis.
EnTeam is a 501(c)(3) organization serving schools and youth programs in-person and online. Originally, EnTeam programs started in the St. Louis metropolitan area. More recent EnTeam programs have served schools in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington DC plus Quito, Ecuador.
EnTeam is on the Registry of Quality Vendors designated by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).