Team Growth
growing the tree
High Performing Teams grow in different ways
What it looks like depends on you and your unique circumstances
Two complementary branches for team growth, with a different emphasis...
Tailored team growth focuses on developing collective capability, connections, resilience and high performing teamwork.
Systemic Team Coaching explores relationships and interdependencies and impact across the wider system.
It's about:
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Building collective awareness and connections within your team.
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Building team resilience to help navigate VUCAH* environments.
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Working on how you work, think and learn together and reducing silos.
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Realising the power of your collective capacity and capability, rather than focusing on individual expertise and delivery. Your sum should be greater than individual parts.
It's about:
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Building collective awareness of systems in which you opperate.
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Developing capacity to think, work and learn more systemically.
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Building systemic resilience to help navigate VUCAH* environments.
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Recognising and working with the interdependencies, relationships and dynamics that influence the wider system.
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Proactively impacting the systems around you.
Both branches are practical, relevant and real!
They're NOT about focusing on a fixed set of criteria created by an academic.
They evolve with new perspectives, changing circumstances and opportunities as they emerge.
All work is tailored to what works for your team in your particular environment and evolves as the programme evolves.
Systemic
Team Coaching
Tailored
Team Growth
*VUCAH = volatile, unpredictable, complex, ambiguous, hyperconnected
An analogy might help - imagine your team is a tree
Successful teams grow like healthy trees. Roots, trunk, branches and canopy all play different roles, yet must work together to respond to changing environmental conditions and stakeholder needs.
Teams, like trees, also create their own unique microclimate. Each tree influences – and is influenced by – everything around it. Beneath the surface are roots, fungi and nutrients. Above the ground, birds, insects, sunlight and rain all play their part.
It's a complex ecosystem, with ever-changing conditions – drought, floods, fire, strong winds, pests and disease, and changing needs.
So how does this relate to the two branches of team growth?
Tailored Team Growth
We focus more on the tree itself – understanding what helps it grow and flourish. How well are its different parts working together? What needs nurturing, strengthening or attention?
Systemic Team Coaching
We widen the lens to look at the tree within its wider ecosystem. How does it interact with and influence everything around it? What relationships, interdependencies and dynamics affect its growth and the health of the wider ecosystem?
Both are fundamentally different from traditional team development approaches - linear, based on specific theoretical outcomes and predetermined goals.
The tree analogy also helps frame our initial scoping. It's like a soil test – helping us understand what's working well and what needs attention. From there, we'll collaboratively design an approach that evolves as your team and its environment evolve.
And I'm like your personal gardener – nurturing your team's growth. I provide just the right quantities of water, fertiliser and sunshine, at just the right time, tailored to your team's particular environment. If you need it, I can be a stake to lean on too!
