Team Personality

This technique aims to generate shared perceptions amongst team members with regard to customs, culture, purpose and other factors that impact how they interact with each other and stakeholders. It builds on a children’s game that creates cut-outs of animals out of body parts from other animals. So, a construct may have the head of a donkey, the neck of a giraffe, the tail of a monkey, the body of a hippo and the feet of a lion.

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

Why not sign up to a month's free trial?

Already a member? Log in here

Read More Team Personality

How to be positively cynical

At first thought, “positively cynical” seems like a non-sequitur. Being cynical, according to author Jamil Zaki[1] is a belief that people generally are selfish, greedy and dishonest. The degree, to which we accept this view, influences how we interact with others. It also influences – negatively – how well we perform on a wide variety of...

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

Why not sign up to a month's free trial?

Already a member? Log in here

Read More How to be positively cynical

Planning for team resilience

Burnout is a phenomenon we usually associate with individuals. It’s typically the result of long-term stress caused by an inability to get on top of challenges, such as increasing or overwhelming workload. When everyone within a team is experiencing similar stresses, they amplify the problem. When the whole organisation is in the same situation, the stress notches up even further.

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

Why not sign up to a month's free trial?

Already a member? Log in here

Read More Planning for team resilience

Psychological safety and neurodivergence

The relationship between performance at work and psychological safety is well-established. High performance requires people (both as individuals and collectively) to be periodically in “flow”. That’s hard to achieve when our thoughts are distracted by fear of, for example, saying the wrong thing, or by the need to maintain a mask that protects us from...

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

Why not sign up to a month's free trial?

Already a member? Log in here

Read More Psychological safety and neurodivergence

Making hybrid working work

One of the first things we learned when a company I chaired in the mid-1990s moved to a hybrid model of working was that people have very different perspectives and needs. For some, being in the office most of the time was important to their identity, social engagement and sense of efficacy. At the other...

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

Why not sign up to a month's free trial?

Already a member? Log in here

Read More Making hybrid working work

Tangles – a new metaphor for coaching harmonics

Whether it be a computer cable, a garden hose or a shoelace, we all have experienced how hard a is to untangle a tangle. Jiggle the wrong way, or too hard, or too soft and we make it worse. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been experimenting with a robot to find the...

Membership Required

You must be a member to access this content.

Why not sign up to a month's free trial?

Already a member? Log in here

Read More Tangles – a new metaphor for coaching harmonics