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TCZ Podcast #125: Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour: Building Top Performing Teams In Episode #125 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast I'm joined by a dynamic duo team - Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour, co-authors of Building Top Performing Teams A practical guide to team coaching to improve collaboration and drive organizational success (Kogan Page). Lucy is Director of Performance Edge and a board member of the UK International Coaching Federation. During her 30 year corporate career Lucy worked at board level and as an HR Director in retail and airlines and led award-winning teams. Paul combines a global client base with practitioner research in human collaboration, team coaching and conflict resolution. His interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. Both Lucy and Paul are lead tutors on Team Coaching at Henley Business School. In this episode we focus on ways of being as a Team Coach including: - a framework to explore your Being as a Team Coach - the importance of contracting as a means to unleashing creativity - tools to bring out the collective wisdom of teams - how to get beyond your own story and self-limiting mindset - discovering your signature as a Team Coach Find out more on Lucy and Paul here: Lucy linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson Paul linkedin.com/in/pauljbarbour Find Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success (Kogan Page, January 2021). on Amazon, Google Books and Apple Books.

TCZ Podcast #124: Andres Roberts: What Can Nature Teach Us About Coaching Teams? I’m very excited to be joined in this episode on The Team Coaching Zone by Andres Roberts, the founder of the Bio-Leadership Project and co-founder of Way of Nature. Andres' TEDx talk How Would Nature Change Leadership? – quickly made its way onto the global TED platform within weeks of giving the talk. Andres is on a mission to reinvent leadership to be more like nature. He believes we are at ‘sliding doors’ moment in time, in which humanity has the challenge and the opportunity to rewrite the rules of collective progress in history. He argues rather than battling with the old operating systems, making nature our guide might be the most important innovation of our times. Andres left the world of big organisations early on in his career. He has worked and learnt with elders and teachers from around the world, as well as first class partners in organisational learning and development. Andres works with institutions such as Patagonia, the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Amani Institute. In episode #124 I begin by asking Andres to share his earliest memories of being in nature. We also venture into: What inspired Andres to make leadership and nature his life's work The Bio-Leadership project as a global movement for change Three threads woven into the Bio-Leadership philosophy How some companies are applying the model to reinvent their future How it could inform Team Coaches grappling with a transformation agenda Learn more about Andres: https://bio-leadership.org/ https://youtu.be/PIX-4DJLwRw For show notes and more information on team coaching go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com

TCZ Episode #123: Aileen Miziolek: Insights and Inspiration for Coaching Family Business Teams According to the World Economic Forum 70% of the world’s economy is made up of family businesses and 50% of the global workforce work in those businesses. Aside from the business case, I am passionate about coaching family businesses and have been looking around for a few buddies to talk things through. I’m delighted therefore to be joined in Episode #123 of The Team Coaching Zone podcast by a real expert in the field - @Aileen Miziolek, a fellow ORSC Coach (Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching) and a consultant at The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. who joins me from her home in Toronto, Canada. In this episode Aileen and I swap stories and talk about: - the appeal of working with families in business - the unique challenges of coaching family teams - Aileen's concept of the Learning Family - working with Founders and intergenerational dynamics - the potency of a Relationship Systems Coaching approach - insights for Team Coaches curious to explore working in this arena Our conversation begins with Aileen's personal story, which is touching and sets the tone of why this work is so important. Hopefully more Team Coaches will consider jumping into the fray. You can find more on Aileen Miziolek: https://www.thefbcg.com/miziolek/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aileen-miziolek-b7654220/

TCZ Podcast #122: Jennifer Garvey Berger: Cultivating Leadership & Unlocking Mindtraps in Teams Given the astonishing experience of 2020 – which has confirmed that we have entered a moment of radical change and alteration - how can we as team coaches find deep and intentional ways to grow ourselves and our clients in order to better thrive in complex times? In Episode #122, I’m really excited to pose this question and more to my guest Jennifer Garvey Berger – Jennifer’s ‘Growth Edge Coaching’ approach, which she describes in her book, Changing on the Job, has been developed over the last decade and underpins her work developing leaders and coaching senior teams in organisations such as Google, KPMG, Microsoft, and the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Jennifer also coaches transformational and development coaching approaches in her Growth Edge Coaching certification series, and is a highly popular speaker at leadership and coaching conferences around the world. She is the co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, the author of three acclaimed books and holds a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University. During our conversation we touch on: - an overview of the adult development theory that underpins Jennifer's work - the uniqueness of a transformational and development coaching approach to working with teams - stories of working with teams using this approach - the challenge of helping to accelerate human growth in leadership teams - meeting our own shadow and doing the work ourselves - the sense of urgency for this work - Jennifer's vision for the coaching and team coaching industry - bringing spirit back into the workplace Find out more about Jennifer: cultivatingleadership.com (Company Website) kiwibergers.blogspot.com (Blog) growthedgecoaching.com (Company Website) twitter jgberger LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-garvey-berger-7b4a264/

TCZ Episode #121: Alison Cameron: What Does It Really Take To Transform Teams? In this episode Alison Cameron, an internationally acclaimed transformation strategist and I talk about what it takes to guide team leaders in enabling organisational evolution. I'm interested, how do we ourselves as team coaches, better understand what it takes to help our clients adapt their ways of working and worldview. Alison's work has taken her from the boardrooms of large, multinational corporations working with leaders in business, politics and not-for-profit sectors, to leading social transformation initiatives around the world. She is the co-founder of Adaptive Cultures, a growing global community of leaders and culture practitioners working with many of the world’s most complex and influential organisations. Adaptive Cultures diagnostic instruments and methodologies have been endorsed and implemented by a number of teams going through significant transformations. We start our conversation talking about where she lives surrounded by mountains and a verdant tropical backdrop in Australia, and her own fascinating transformation journey which started in Alison's early teens and took her to be on stage with Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lamai and other respected world leaders. It's a moving story which she has never shared before and sets the tone for our conversation. Here's what we talk about in addition to Alison's own story: Awakening and being called to a higher purpose Working with living systems as a leadership and team coach The need to do the inner work as a practitioner Developing adaptive capacity and agility in organisations How to identify the different stages of cultural evolution The critical importance of structure in nurturing potential Tips for team coaches working inside organisations You can find more on Alison and Adaptive Cultures here: *https://adaptivecultures.co For show notes go to: http://teamcoachingzone.com/alisoncameron Note: On the show notes page you can download the Stages of Cultural Evolution (see attached PDF) and the white paper on Adapting Organisations Through Leadership and Culture (see attached PDF)

TCZ Episode #120: Klaus Leopold: Reinventing Agile: Why High-Performing Teams Isn’t The Answer Before, during and for sure post the immediate crisis of #Covid-19, organisations today are having to reinvent themselves faster than ever before. As a behaviour change expert working with senior teams, I tend to focus on the human system itself rather than operational systems and processes. Clearly both relationships and tasks need to be reimagined for companies to adapt and thrive. Unpicking the spaghetti junction of a business’s operational system is not easily done, but Dr Klaus Leopold, CEO of Flight Levels Academy and Managing Partner of Leanability seems to have the knack for it. For those in the agile world, Klaus is a bit of a legend and it is his third book, Rethinking Agile that prompted me to invite him onto the Team Coaching Zone podcast to ask about how he goes about whole-systems change. Here's some of what Klaus and I cover: How he discovered and defines flight levels Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility How flight levels work in helping to re-imagine businesses Why we don’t need high-performance teams The dangers of focusing on teams as islands rather than agile interactions The relationship between flight levels thinking and three horizons thinking Klaus’ vision for a better world For show notes and information on Klaus including his books, his blog and how to find him on Twitter and LinkedIn go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/klausleopold

TCZ Episode #119: Mike Robbins: We’re All In This Together: Coaching Teams With This in Mind On today's show I talk to Mike Robbins, author of five books including his brand new title, We're All In This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust and Belonging. Mike's ideas are based on 20 years working as a highly sought-after speaker and consultant to clients such as, Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Genentech, eBay, Harvard University, and LinkedIn. We begin with Mike's own story as a professional sportsman turned business consultant in the San Francisco Bay area. We talk about the sense of urgency which compelled him to write the book, and then explore the four pillars that his research has led him to believe are essential for teams to thrive in today's world. These are: Psychological safety, drawing on the work of Amy Edmondson and others, what it takes to create an environment safe for risk-taking, disagreement, failure, boldness and authenticity. Inclusion and belonging, why teams need to engage in authentic conversations around this topic in an on-going and effective way, not only for companies to thrive but for societies to move in a positive direction on these fronts. Embracing sweaty-palm conversations, however scary and difficult, conflict as an enabler for positive team relationships, overall performance and wellbeing. Caring and challenging each other, the importance of maintaining a strong balance of nurturing and high expectations in the team. Listen here on the Team Coaching Zone or any podcast platform to Episode #119 More about Mike: Mike and his work have been featured in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review, as well as on NPR and ABC News. He’s a regular contributor to Forbes, hosts his own podcast (called We’re All in This Together), and his books have been translated into 15 different languages.

TCZ Episode #118: Tatiana Fraser & Rachel Sinha: Making Systems Leadership Possible My guests today are two formidable women and the co-founders of the System Sanctuary – an international peer learning and training platform for systems leadership. Tatiana Fraser has 20 years of experience leading and scaling systems innovations, creating strategic learning communities and movement building. She is also co-founder of Girls Action Foundation and co-author of Girl Positive (Random House 2016), in which she has worked to reframe the narrative around gender equality to advance social justice and the leadership of girls and women. Rachel Sinha is a British award-winning social innovator, based in San Francisco, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of 50 Radicals “changing the face of the UK for the better”. Rachel was one of co-founders of The Finance Innovation Lab, designed to empower positive disruptors in the financial system. The Lab was named a semi-finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Award ‘Socially Responsible Designs Highest Award’ for its work bringing together people post financial crisis, to accelerate positive change in the financial system. Prior to that Rachel’s work on sustainability issues includes a number of ground-breaking roles including have sat on the European Commission Expert Panel on Social Business. She has co-authored a series of articles in Harvard Business Review and Fast Company and publications, and collaborating with Oxford Said Business School has led an enquiry into the language of systems change and launched the publication Keywords. Together they run The Systems Sanctuary which has the tagline – a refuge for systems leaders http://systemsanctuary.com For Episode Show Notes & More Go To: https://teamcoachingzone.com/frasersinha

TCZ Episode #117: Dr. Paul White: How to Keep Teams Feeling Valued in a Remote Workplace In an agile and less hierarchical world, teams are ever more reliant on motivating each other over and above relying on their team leader. Appreciation is one of the fastest ways to make someone feel valued but we don't all speak the same language. Especially at a time when most are working remotely and having to dig deep to build team resilience. My guest today really does have the data to help teams and organizations to get this right. Dr Paul White is a psychologist, leadership trainer and co-author of the Five Languages of Appreciation at Work based on the international best seller by his co-author Gary Chapman on The Five Love Languages. In this punchy 40 minute episode Paul and I explore Why appreciation matters over and above employee recognition How to recognise the 5 language of appreciation in yourself and others The impact of appreciation on team effectiveness What differences the research shows for remote teams How does any of the 5 languages of appreciation change culture And, Paul has generously offered our listeners a free pass for the Motivating By Appreciation Inventory for Remote teams. Email him on yesdrpaulwhite@gmail.com to receive your registration code. Find more on Appreciation at Work here https://www.appreciationatwork.com More on Paul White: Dr. Paul White, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked with individuals, businesses and families in a variety of settings for over 20 years. He received his B.A. from Wheaton, his Masters from Arizona State, and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University. He consults with successful businesses and high net worth families, dealing with the relational issues intertwined with business and financial wealth. In addition to serving businesses, families and organizations across the U.S., Dr. White has also spoken and consulted in Europe, Central Asia, the Caribbean, and South America.

TCZ Podcast Episode #116: Kathryn McCusker: How To Stay Connected in The Face of Disruption Have you had moments during lockdown of getting trapped in your head and wanting to rationalise what's going on rather than be in your heart? I certainly have. Yet to coach effectively and to be a transformational presence for others, we know we must stay connected to our feelings. Only when we have processed our feelings can we find our creative response. Creativity is what many of the organisational leaders I've been coaching over the past couple of weeks are looking for from themselves and their people as they move beyond a crisis response to reimagining the future of work. My guest this week on The Team Coaching Zone podcast is not a coach. Kathryn McCusker is a kundalini yoga teacher, professional opera singer and author. I've been going to Kathryn's classes for awhile now and each time I leave the studio feeling deeply connected to myself and the world. In this episode Kathryn shares practical techniques which you can do working from your home office to access your personal creativity. We talk about the science behind Kundalini yoga and the impact different breathing techniques and mantra meditations have proven to have on enhancing brain functioning as well as managing our emotional state. I hope you have fun with this one! More on Kathryn: www.kathrynmccuskerkundalini.com https://www.facebook.com/KathrynMcCuskerYoga/ https://www.instagram.com/kathryn_mccusker_yoga/ https://twitter.com/kmyogakundalini?lang=en-gb https://www.youtube.com/user/KMYOGA