13 Crackers for Systemic Team Coaches
This is the ninth year that I am sending out a range of Systemic Team Coaching® Christmas Crackers to the wide and growing global community of team leaders and coaches around the world. Each year I take one-line aphorisms that I have found myself using on my various trainings and make a short collection. Like […]
From Traditional Team Coaching to Systemic Team Coaching: A Necessary Evolution for Today’s Leaders
In a world of rapid change and complexity, the way we develop teams and leaders is undergoing a profound shift. Many organisations have long relied on traditional team coaching – focusing on improving a team’s internal dynamics, communication, and performance. While valuable, this inward-focused approach is proving insufficient against the backdrop of today’s global challenges. Climate change, geopolitical instability, systemic inequality, and disruptive technologies like AI are reshaping the context in which teams operate. These issues are complex, interdependent, and fast-changing, extending far beyond the walls of any one team or company.
Beyond Empathy: Breathing Love into the Heart of Conflict?
At this particular time, I meet many people who find themselves disturbed and distressed by watching the news, as global events erupt around the world. In many of my global talks, feelings of overwhelm, powerlessness, disturbed sleep with disturbing dreams, anger, depression, despair have all been shared.
Start Before You’re Ready: Practising Systemic Coaching Early in Your Training
One of the things I often hear from people starting their Systemic Team Coaching® journey is a quiet, almost embarrassed question: “Should I really be working with clients when I haven’t finished all the training?”
It’s a completely understandable hesitation. You want to honour the depth of the work, not overstep, and you’re probably feeling the weight of doing it ‘properly’. I’ve seen this in almost every cohort I’ve supported, and I remember that same feeling myself.
Seven Behaviours of Highly Effective Teams: and How Team Norms Build Collective Leadership
Many organizations underperform because their senior executive team is a team of leaders and not a leadership team. In a team of leaders, each team member focuses on their own role and function, and the only point of integration is the CEO. In today’s complex, challenging, and fast changing world, this creates an impossible role for the CEO.
The Zipper Merge: A Roadmap for Shared Purpose and Team of Teams Collaboration
Metaphors are powerful. Which ones do you use in your teamwork. Here is one I have been using that teams relate well to called the Zipper merge.
The Power of “La Pausa” in Team Coaching: Center and Enter
In team coaching, the ability to pause and be fully present isn’t just a skill—it’s a strategic advantage. Recently, while teaching timeouts (or as some prefer, La Pausa) to a global cohort of team coaching practitioners, the phrase “center and enter” surfaced as a guiding principle.
Safeguarding the Future of Coaching: What Comes Next?
The coaching profession stands at a crossroads. As coaching expands globally, how do we ensure it continues to be ethical, impactful, and future-fit?
Beyond Psychological Safety to Collective Psychological and Relational Maturity
I was working with an action learning group of very senior partners in one of the world’s leading professional services firms. They were all sharing how “Time-poor they were”, how their week was over-filled with meetings and incessant e-mails…
How do I increase my ‘Confidence’ as a team coach?
What do we mean by confidence? Where does the word come from? The prefix con, in Latin means ‘with’ or ‘connected to’. Fidence, also comes from the Latin, and is connected to ‘fides’ which can mean either’ to have trust in,’ or ‘to have faith that’.
