VUCA is only part of the story! A lot of pain teams experience is planned!

My clients tell me that before they are able to process change, something else happens, then another thing. In addition to a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) environment there is more planned change that ever before: multiple consecutive structure changes, budget cuts, senior leadership changes, local and central government changes, and the list goes on. With each planned change comes rework, upheaval, changing priorities and ineffective use of resources.

The emotional impact of change is significant too. My clients tell me change fatigue impacts their mental and physical health, job satisfaction declines, and relationships and family suffer.

Focusing on what you CAN control and influence helps! For example:

· identifying unhelpful systemic issues and communicating them with the right people,

· influencing decision makers,

· managing personal and collective energy,

· creating supportive problem solving and decision making skills,

· increasing individual and combined team resilience,

· leading others through change,

· and most importantly, finding ways to celebrate and share your amazing successes.

If your team is suffering from change fatigue, I would love to have a chat. Please get in touch or see www.growtobe.com. Reduce the pain!

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Massey MBA – perfect fit!

Sharing key insights from my book with Massey University MBA students last week as part of the “leadership and teamwork” paper. I talked about the rationale for team coaching, rapid teaming (thanks Prof. David Clutterbuck for allowing me to borrow the term), and the important role of leader as coach - all through the lens of the real life case study. Team Coaching for Organisational Development is on their reading list too!

Team Coaching for Organisational Development is useful for human resource professionals, change managers, leaders, teams, coaches, supervisors and students studying any of these areas.

Get your copy at www.growtobe.co.nz

Story telling gone wild!

Who knew that using an apple analogy with a client several years ago would have such a significant impact on my work. I have used an apple tree as a high performing team model, used an apple based restaurant menu to bring to life my à la carte approach to working with clients, created an apple product company as an alias in my book, and more.

Lucky I like everything about apples and the colour green!

Story telling is an incredibly effective leadership and teamwork technique. If you’re not sure where to start, try analogies - they might just go wild!

If you or your team would like to practice ways to tell your story please get in touch, or see Team Coaching for Organisational Development available from www.growtobe.co.nz for real life examples.

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