Teams & Peers
Organisational membership is about making sure everyone is accountable and taking responsibility. It means accepting responsibility for our own roles and the roles of our leaders – only then do we accept responsibility for our organisation and the people it serves.
What this means is that people need to support each other in different ways than they might currently do. In organisations, people need to do things like:
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ask for what we need from each other;
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provide feedback about how we can be best supported;
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ask others how they would like to be supported, recognising linkages between areas and departments, actively seeking out collaborative activities that will improve organsational performance;
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choose the best organsational outcome over the best departmental outcome;
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provide feedback when peers don’t meet agreed expectations;
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challenge inappropriate organisational behaviours.
Programs we have run ....
Organisational Membership
A series of sessions designed to explore what it means to be an organisational citizen, and identify the capability that is required.
Team Building
Workshops designed with a specific purpose in mind such as dealing with conflict, problem solving, and developing team morale.
Developing Collaborative Teams
A program designed to identify opportunities for collaboration, and through working on real organisational tasks, develop collaborative capability.
Straight Talking
We all have to have conversations we would rather not have. A conversation feels hard when we feel anxious or worried, when the issue is important to us, when we care about what will happen and the people involved.
We will often make excuses for not having straight conversations and talk ourselves out of having them. But when we do that we let everyone down, the other person, ourselves and our teams.
Having a straight or difficult conversation does raise our anxiety, and this is normal. Learning to have these conversations does not mean our anxiety will go away, but it does mean we get better at managing our anxiety in such a way that we don't avoid them.
Developing skills in having straight conversations is a core capability for everyone, and especially those of us in leadership roles.
Programs we have run ...
Straight Talking
A training program that develops skills in having straight conversations and prepares participants for the next difficult conversation they need to have.
Coaching
One-on-one coaching emphasises and supports participants in having the conversations they need to have at work.