“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success.”
Henry Ford
While a leader sets the tone of the team’s effectiveness and culture, each member plays an active role in upholding the terms and enhancing the team’s effectiveness. Yet, the complex organisational structures often subject teams to face external pressures and internal agitations. How do you and your team cope with them?
Are you working with openness towards your team to seek clarity or is your corporate life a game of chess, where players rely on perceptions and mind-reading to plan the next move?
While perceptions can have an objective side as well, clarity about your approach to engage and manage team dynamics can enable you to assess if it contributes towards your P.O.W.E.R. :
– Potential actualisation
– Objective outlook
– Well-being and psychological-safety
– Energy to engage with your group
– Resources required to meet your goal
Research on team development and factors influencing it has been in focus since the early 1990s, from Tuckman’s theory of group development to Eric Berne’s writing on human psychological hunger to seek stimulus and recognition as motivation, behavioural scientists and practitioners have been intrigued to understand the nuances of these dynamics and ways to make teams more effective and efficient. Yet, the quest continues…
At Thoughtsfile, we are cognizant of the business context and demand for high performing teams. We believe each team is different, your need is unique to your situation and goal. Our team coaching program aims to enable a team to explore and gain awareness that can move them from confusion to congruence. Mentioned below is the blueprint of our focus areas working around which our team coaching program aims to enhance a team’s Clarity, Cohesion and ultimately Congruence :
1. Direction & Purpose: Answering the Why with a precise purpose to provide direction to the team’s performance efforts
2. Clarified Roles & Expectations: Planned structure to answer the When and Where with context over how the team will achieve the set outcomes. Understanding the strengths and expectations of team members to enable alignment to roles.
3. Facilitated Interdependence: Create opportunities for members to know & understand each other to answer Who they can collaborate with and rely on.
4. Inclusive and Transparent Culture to provide psychological safety for the team to understand How to perform and win together rather than struggle for survival.
Teams thrive in an objective culture which motivates them to perform, provides them clarity to direct their efforts and promises recognition on meeting the defined expectations. These facets hold value on their own and together they provide an opportunity for teams to find meaning in their work through stimulus, structure and recognition.
Thoughtsfile’s team coaching program can range from 1-6 months based on the team’s need and focus area. Like always you design your objective & purpose and your coach will work with you to file-off the noise around it. Drop us an email at thoughtsfile@gmail.com with your team’s specific need or aspired goal to design a program exclusive to your team.
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