Making teams work in a complex world
Making teams work in a complex world
The modern team has many issues to navigate: how to collaborate, communicate, be inclusive and find clarity on objectives are just some of the challenges.
With people working across multiple teams, geographies and cultures, finding effective and efficient ways of teaming is paramount. Unfortunately, few teams have clear models for what makes a ‘high value team’; one that delivers value to all stakeholders. Inefficient teams drown in too many emails, unpurposeful meetings and duplicated outputs.
Getting the advice and guidance of a trained team coach will help you find structure, clarity and efficiencies so that you really can be more than the sum of your parts.
The Six Elements of Modern Leadership
We have have coached hundreds of teams and leaders across many industries.
Across our clients, the following 6 elements have emerged as the most critical to master in the modern workplace – read each and consider where your team members are at right now:
Self-Manager
How is your emotional wellbeing and work-life balance?
Are you mentally present away from work?
Your people take their lead from how you show up. Are you in the best place personally?
Creator
How clear and inspiring is your vision for the business?
Are you working well with other senior leaders to create that?
Do you make space for innovation and creative thinking?
How well do you involve your people in that?
Challenger
Challenging the modern workforce takes skill and calibration. Too much and people back off; too little and you create a stagnant environment.
Are you adept at delivering difficult feedback?
And do you seek it for yourself?
How well do you address underperformance?
The Modern Leader
Communicator
The rapid pace of change requires leaders to communicate with impact. Are you able to enthuse and emotionally engage your people through change?
Or do you leave them overwhelmed and confused by your messaging?
Coach
Coaching is the key catalyst in maximizing your people’s potential and output. Modern staff also expect to be coached more and told less.
Are your coaching skills up to scratch?
Do you use a coaching approach, or are you often stuck in tell mode?
Motivator
Do your people feel motivated by your leadership?
How do you know?
Many leaders get absorbed in the busyness and don’t make enough time to understand individual motivations, celebrate success and reinforce positive behaviours.
The Modern Leader
Self-Manager
How is your emotional wellbeing and work-life balance?
Are you mentally present away from work?
Your people take their lead from how you show up. Are you in the best place personally?
Creator
How clear and inspiring is your vision for the business?
Are you working well with other senior leaders to create that?
Do you make space for innovation and creative thinking?
How well do you involve your people in that?
Motivator
Do your people feel motivated by your leadership?
How do you know?
Many leaders get absorbed in the busyness and don’t make enough time to understand individual motivations, celebrate success and reinforce positive behaviours.
Coach
Coaching is the key catalyst in maximizing your people’s potential and output. Modern staff also expect to be coached more and told less.
Are your coaching skills up to scratch?
Do you use a coaching approach, or are you often stuck in tell mode?
Communicator
The rapid pace of change requires leaders to communicate with impact. Are you able to enthuse and emotionally engage your people through change?
Or do you leave them overwhelmed and confused by your messaging?
Challenger
Challenging the modern workforce takes skill and calibration. Too much and people back off; too little and you create a stagnant environment.
Are you adept at delivering difficult feedback?
And do you seek it for yourself?
How well do you address underperformance?
How can you improve these skills?
If you want to be a really effective leader, we need to explore your context and style from several angles. As such, we have created a series of programmes, rather than offer ‘just coaching’.
These programmes include coaching on live business issues; structured time exploring your skills in the Six Elements of the Modern Leader framework; observing you in leadership situations and exploring models to use together. You will also receive curated content (research, thought leadership etc.) to further support your development.
Covering all these angles will give you the fullest picture of a) your impact and b) skills you need to develop that you hadn’t even considered.
Our programmes will be built around your context and needs. Whether that be focusing on an immediate issue – say leading a restructuring – or a longer-term one, such as positioning your team to lead a growing business.
What will coaching do for you?
Effective coaching is the fastest way to develop your leadership skills. We’ve seen this through hundreds of hours delivering and receiving it.
Coaching is much more than just asking open questions; we are there to challenge your thinking, find fresh perspectives and introduce other leaders’ approaches to similar issues.
The more deeply you understand your professional and personal leadership identity, the more effective your actions and impact will be.
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