Are you facilitating growth and change in your team?
Increasing levels of collaboration and pooling of collective skills and wisdom are needed to move with change. Yet something we notice is that even in high performing teams the day-to-day operational focus tends to fill the agenda and the opportunity for growth and change is missed.
You may sometimes feel you have to move mountains to pull a meeting away from the urgent and ongoing operational issues to create space for a different team conversation that allows growth in the team's awareness and holistic intelligence and enables shifts in perception.
How do we grow our own and the team's holistic intelligence, gather the wisdom and shift perceptions?
1. Commitment and intention
The vital first step is to make a commitment to creating an intentional and practical space for meetings with a growth focus, away from the operational agenda.
2. Strengthen connections
Work in pairs and in small groups, not just the large group. Be curious about each other and find out what challenges you each have. Practice listening!!!!
3. Grow awareness
Have conversations about how you potentially hinder your own growth and that of the team.
What are your assumptions about the team, individuals, progress etc.
How do you inspire your team?
How do you engage your team?
When do you become defensive, describe your behaviour.
When do you act out of ego and when do you act from the heart.
What do you offer the team and what would you like from the team.
Creating space to harvest collective wisdom and grow together is infinitely valuable for the life and spirit of the team.
Be Extraordinary
Nicola and Anouk
