SpatzAI: Making Good Team Players Great

SpatzAI is designed for team players committed to fairness, accountability, and disciplined collaboration. It’s not for everyone—and that’s intentional.

To ensure success, SpatzAI vets potential team players by testing their willingness to embrace SpatzAI’s core principles:

1. Focus on behavior, not the person—play the ball, not the man, willing to avoid labeling team members.
2. Follow the Caution, Objection, Stop protocol—a simple, structured 3-step chat app procedure to address and resolve dogmatic, untoward behavior that causes micro-conflicts or initial spats in teams during disagreements.

We don’t expect team players to behave perfectly—in fact, quite the opposite. SpatzAI empowers team members to push boundaries. When they inevitably cross the line, it ensures they are willing to be accountable by engaging in the course-correcting process through the Spatz Chat app and, when necessary, the team and AI review platform.

The Vetting and Onboarding Process
This process is straightforward and can also help organizations identify and onboard new team players:

• Present a Scenario: Real-world examples are provided where Spatz principles could have turned an unproductive exchange into a fair resolution.
• Ask for Reflection: Candidates are asked to identify who acted constructively and why. If they validate labeling or personal attacks, we issue a caution—explaining why Spatz focuses on addressing behavior, not individuals.
• Test for Alignment: If they recognize the value of this approach, they’re in. If they resist or reject it, they’ve effectively opted out.

This method ensures SpatzAI works with elite users—team players who are already good but want to go from good to great. As Jim Collins says, “A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.” This mindset aligns well with Jim Collins’ philosophy of disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action.

By filtering for potentially great players, SpatzAI becomes a tool for high-performing teams to thrive. It’s the people Spatz rejects that make it so valuable.

Teams that commit to fairness, accountability, and disciplined improvement will set the standard—and SpatzAI will be their guide, assisting in any course-correcting along the way.