Systems inspired coaching -
“Build a team of people that challenge and inspire you, then create the conditions for them to thrive. In true partnership, you can change the world.”
Team Diagnostics
Purpose
Culture Shift
Deliberately Developmental Organisations
In partnership with you and your team
In partnership with you and your team
I weave the best up to the minute approaches in system’s inspired coaching to develop exceptional leaders and design environments that thrive and unlock the collective potential of the team.
Harnessing the relational intelligence inherent in high-performing teams and healthy living systems, and the collective leadership and accountability from organisational coaching cultures, I form close and trusted partnerships with my clients to bring about transformational shifts in abilities, performance, collaboration and trust.
I am very interested in Deliberately Developmental Organisations and how this design of organisational culture could revolutionize the future world of work.
My approach draws on Adult Development Theory, the work of Abraham Maslow, Living (and General) Systems Theory, Process Work, Organizational Development, Appreciative Enquiry, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, Deep Democracy and Co-active coaching. I am a scientist by educational background so draw on Neurobiology as evidence for the benefits of applying such techniques.
The
Five Principles of
Systems Inspired Coaching
1.Every team has its own unique identity or “personality” – What is yours and is it in tune with the current relationship?
2.Teams are in a constant state of emergence. Change is constant. Create from it rather than react to it. What is trying to emerge? What is your team trying to reveal to you? – Lift the gaze to the larger whole – What is the purpose of your team right now?
3.Every member of the team has a voice of equal worth and in turn power. Practicing Deep Democracy invites the most extensive creativity to solutions. Are you all being listened to? Is power distributed as it needs to be? Do you feel safe to speak out?
4.Supportive, coaching based teams are naturally intelligent, generative and creative. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. If we feel safe and that our dreams belong here, we can invest ourself and align our purpose with that of the team. Are you invested in each other and each others potential? Do you have conscious conversations about the relationship between you and the way you work together? Do you support conflict in a healthy way?
5.Teams rely on roles for their organization and execution of functions. Roles belong to the system, not to the individuals that inhabit the system. Leadership too, is a role of the system. Empower team members to share the load and lean into the team for solutions rather than feel pressured to have all of the answers. Do you feel there is confusion or conflict at any level about where responsibility should lie? Have you got mechanisms to evolve roles based on feedback and organisational needs?
Living Systems Intelligence
The basic idea of LSI is the redirection of focus from the individuals within the system, to the whole system as an entity in itself. This shift in focus enables Leaders, teams and organizations to move beyond personal concerns and conflicts to a positive and generative group identity. The strength of a team’s identity provides resilience and the resources necessary to navigate the constantly changing challenges organisations face.
When we develop LSI we move beyond diagnostics. We ‘sense’ what the ‘vibe’ is between us, what the team needs, what will make the system thrive and what is limiting it. We intuitively gain an understanding the complex dynamics, communication styles, and conflicts within a group. The information we receive helps the system to move forward with intention.
