The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. This week on the show, Cynthia Loy Darst, Master Coach, coach trainer, keynote speaker and author of Meet Your Inside Team, joins me Carissa Bub to talk about how to triumph over your hardest client yet, yourself (!), and how to help others to do the same. In this episode, Cynthia and I cover a range of topics including: Her early influences as an actor in New York in the 1980s How she left acting to pursue a deeper fascination with people Founding the faculty of two world-leading coaching schools What she has learnt working as a team with her husband Her experiences as a front of room leader for CTI and CRRGlobal What led to her discovery of the Inside Team The influence of other systems work methodologies on her thinking How she works with her Inside Team How she uses this approach to manage internal conflict Why knowing your Inside Team can help you as a Coach How to help your client Team work with their Inside Teams The future Team Coaching competencies More on Cynthia: Cynthia is internationally known as a passionate pioneer in the world of coaching: one of the first to gain the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) by the International Coach Federation, one of the founding leaders for CRR Global (Centre For Right Relationship) and The Coaches Training Institute, and one of the founders of the ICF. Cynthia works with people from all walks of life: CEOs to chiropractors, singers to Silicon Valley pros, teams that produce documentaries to sales teams in the insurance industry. In 2004, after 10 years of growing coaches to the level of ‘competent,’ she started creating ongoing training for advanced coaches to support them in becoming coaching masters. The Inside Team courses, workshops, and retreats came out of that work. You can find everything you want to now about Cynthia here: https://teamdarst.com P.S Whenever you’re ready here are 2 ways Team Coaching Zone can help inspire your imagination and impact: Join a Master-class or Webinar: If you're looking for more imagination, tools and courage to take your coaching practice to the next level we have a menu of learning bites to inform and entertain you. You can attend a masterclass or log in and join a growing number of our live webinar series we are launching around the world. Check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com for more information. If you’re interested in a topic and can’t find it here, get in touch, carissa@teamcoachingzone.com Come on an Adventure of a Lifetime: Every year, we take a group of coaches on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. I believe that adventuring gets us out of our comfort zone, stimulates us in new ways and helps us connect with the world around us. These trips are designed to disrupt your current reality, challenge your assumptions and reconnect you to your wider purpose. This year we were in Norway on the Nautilus Voyage learning to sail and experimenting with team of teams. Join us in 2020 for our next adventures this April in Cuba and this coming July in Norway! Check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilus for more information and updates. Reach out to krister@teamcoachingzone.com

This week on the show, Melanie Seymour, former Head of Budapest for BlackRock now head of Global Client Services, joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about how she led the building of BlackRock’s newest organisation and centre for innovation, scaling from zero to 500 hires in less than two years. We spoke while Melanie was in Budapest, a place she has fallen in love with, a few months before she accepted her new role at Blackrock. Melanie and I discuss: • Her previous experience building and selling her first financial services business in the UK • How she set out to create a team that thinks differently and is capable of innovation • The challenges she faced in the set up and build out of the organisation • How she set out to create a team and team of teams culture • Making the new organisation an integral part of the global organisation • Her passion for creating inclusive modern organisations • Advice for team coaches working with scale ups and global organisations • Beyond teams, the critical importance of creating community and belonging • What else Melanie is up to and where you can get in touch More about Melanie Seymour: Melanie has over 30 years experience in Finance and Banking holding senior roles in Technology, Operations and Change Management as well as running her own business. She set up and ran a mortgage distribution business with one partner and over 8 years grew the business team of over 200 with 3 offices throughout the UK and a turnover in excess of £20 million. In 2011 she joined the global investment manager BlackRock, and is today the Head of Global Client Services. For the two years prior Melanie was responsible for the set up, build out and future growth of BlackRock Budapest. Melanie is Co Chair of the EMEA chapter of BlackRock internal women’s committee ( WIN ) where she leads a programme of events to support women ( and men ) in their career journey through the firm. She is passionate about education and developing the next generation of leaders, mentoring a number of men and women both internally and externally. She has been a Chair of Governors since 2005 and was a coach for the charity Teach First who provide a leadership route into teaching to encourage the most talented graduates to join the most challenging schools. In 2015 Melanie was recognised as one of Brummells Top 30 Inspiring Women in the City. She joined the Advisory Board of Women in Banking and Finance in 2017 after three years as Vice President. Melanie splits her time between Budapest and London with her husband and 2 sons. P.S Whenever you’re ready . . . here are 4 ways I and Team Coaching Zone can help inspire your imagination and impact: Join the Community of Change Makers For the past few years we’ve been developing a community of change makers. Entrepreneurs and coaches who want to impact people and the planet in new and innovative ways. We are a supportive group committed to deepening our missions and lifting each other up when things get tough. If you'd like to learn more, go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/community  Join a Master-class or webinar If you're looking for more imagination, tools and courage to take your coaching practice to the next level we have a menu of learning bites to inform and entertain you. You can attend a masterclass or log in and join a growing number of our live webinar series we are launching around the world. Check out  https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/team-coaching-master-classes and https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/webinars for more information.  Come on an Adventure of a Lifetime Every year, we take a group of coaches on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. I believe that adventuring gets us out of our comfort zone, stimulates us in new ways and helps us connect with the world around us. These trips are designed to disrupt your current reality, challenge your assumptions and reconnect you to your wider purpose. This year we were in Norway on the Nautilus Voyage learning to sail and experimenting with team of teams. Join us in April 2020 in Cuba for our next adventure! Reach out to krister@teamcoachingzone.com for more information on this exciting program and check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilus for updates. Work with us It's no secret that in age defined by the disruptive forces of digital transformation and climate change learning how to be human matters. We are keen to partner with businesses with the courage and curiosity to do things differently. Leaders and teams looking to upgrade their minds so that they can have a transformative impact on the larger system they are part of. Is that you? Just reach out to me Carissa Bub at carissa@teamcoachingzone.com with the word “Curious” in the subject line and tell us more about how to contact you.

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music Play, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. This week on the show, Matthias Scheffelmeier, partner at Ashoka Germany joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about the leadership team’s journey on becoming a self-managing organisation, the power of working with a leadership team coach, and his passion for Change Makers Exchange, a growing movement of young social entrepreneurs. Matthias and I discuss: How Matthias at a young age was focused on corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship His experiences working at MicroSoft and the need for me that took him to Askhoka The work of Ashoka Germany and how it supports social entrepreneurs today Outer transformation can only come about through inner transformation doing the inner work What it took to transform the organisation and how coaching really helped Lessons learnt in the transition from a more traditional partnership model to a self-managing organisation Using the lessons learnt at Ashoka to build a global community of young social entrepreneurs The huge importance of community in helping young social entrepreneur avoid burnout and stay sane What else Matthias is up to and where you can get in touch You can reach Matthias on: ashoka.org (Company Website) changemakerxchange.com (Company Website) mscheffelmeier@hotmail.com Twitter: mscheffelmeier

Episode #102: Andrew Taggart: The Art of Philosophizing and Teams Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, on SoundCloud, Google Music Play, on Stitcher Radio, or on Spotify. This week on the show, Andrew Taggart, Zen Buddhist, practical philosopher and Founder of Askole joins me Carissa Bub (Show Host) as we talk about the future of work, how the art of philosophising can help teams align their work with the pursuit of having a good life, and the differences and similarities between systemic coaching and philosophising. Andrew and I discuss: What took him to becoming a practical philosopher What attracted him to living a contemplative life Why philosophical questions matter today The types of organizations drawn to this work His work with tech teams and entrepreneurs How he goes about running a group session What the art of philosophising and teams sounds like How coaches working with groups might use this art The future of work and how this type of inquiry helps define it More on Andrew Andrew Taggart is a Zen Buddhist and a practical philosopher. He asks and seeks to answer the most basic questions of human existence with others around the world. In 2009, he finished a Ph.D., left the academic life, and moved to New York City because he thought the most fundamental question of how to live needed to be brought back into our everyday lives. Each day he speaks via Skype or Zoom with business executives and tech entrepreneurs throughout the US, Canada, and Europe about the nature of a good life. He is also the founder of Askole [pronounced ah-SKO-lay] whose aim is to help technologists examine what, at bottom, they’re taking for granted. His ideas have been discussed in Quartz, The Guardian, Big Think, Wisconsin Public Radio, TEDx, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He and his wife Alexandra are currently exploring the American Southwest.   You can reach Andrew here: andrewjtaggart.com askole.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-taggart-17157a12/

Episode #101: A Personal Introduction to Season Two by Carissa Bub. Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, on SoundCloud, Google Music Play, on Stitcher Radio, or on Spotify. This week on the show you can listen to Carissa, as she introduces herself and the second season of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. She shares: Her orientation to life Her professional journey thus far What attracted her to want to host the podcast What types of organizations she work with Her vision for this podcast What she would like from you More on Carissa: For the past 18 years Carissa has run an international practice coaching senior leaders, C-Suite leadership teams and scale-ups to create value through the power of human connection. She works systemically with real-time business issues and relationship challenges from the boardroom to the factory floor and develops leaders so they expand consciousness, transforming themselves, their teams and organizations to be catalysts for good in the world. Core focus areas include leadership effectiveness, team effectiveness, leadership culture, and stakeholder communications and engagement. Representative clients include global corporates, family businesses, SMEs, international government agencies, NGOs and social enterprise. Carissa has been on faculty training coaches in Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching for CRRGlobal, Team Performance Coaching for Team Coaching International, and more recently the Team Coaching Zone. She is also on the Global Coaching faculty of BlackRock, and since 2002 has designed and delivered leadership development curriculum programs for several corporate academies through her own consultancy, Bubworks. Bubworks is a boutique leadership development agency specialising in communications and leadership presence which operates as a global hub for seasoned coaches and facilitators. Prior to 2002, Carissa held roles as a news and current affairs television and radio journalist with the BBC and Channel Television, presenting and reporting live from the field and studio on programs such as The World Tonight, Channel Report and World Business Report. Carissa is also accredited as a Co-Active Professional Coach, Master Practitioner in NLP, Performance Coach and has qualifications in Systemic Team Coaching, Oshry’s Power & Systems Organisational Workshop, and numerous leadership and team diagnostic assessments. Her academic qualifications include a Masters in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from UCL, BSc Urban Estate Management from University of Westminster, and a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from University of the Arts London. You can reach Carissa here: linkedin.com/in/carissabub carissa@teamcoachingzone.com carissa@carissabub.com www.carissabub.com  

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this special review and celebration of the first 100 episodes of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast as well as his farewell as the host of the show. In this episode Krister: Shares high level reflections on hosting the podcast since its inception on January 1, 2015 Revisits the main purposes of the show as envisaged in Episode #001 and conducts an informal After Action Review Shares some highlights from key episodes as well as essential lessons learned Explores future trends in the team coaching field Discusses the future of The Team Coaching Zone Invites future show host Carissa Bub onto the podcast to share her vision of how she will lead the Team Coaching Zone Podcast in its next evolution Shares parting thoughts and a heartfelt farewell For show notes and more information on team coaching as well as links to all 100 episodes of the show go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/

What are the forces, trends and movements impact the field of team development and team coaching? How can we as team coaches and field of team coaching itself stay fit for purpose? How can we collaborate across our diverse approaches to address the fundamental challenges of our time? Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone podcast to explore these and other compelling questions. Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and a panel of distinguished guests--Dr. Peter Hawkins, Dr. Ruth Wageman & Gabe Abella--for a dynamic round table discussion. Themes explored in this episode include: Areas of commonality between Peter, Ruth and Gabe's approaches to working with teams The work of today and tomorrow as the focal point of team coaching Creating the conditions for great collaborations Collaborative intelligence - WeQ Working across levels of system Sustainable work practices in teams: expanding our view of team effectiveness Renewal in teams Movements, forces and trends impacting teams and team coaching And more! This is an episode that team coaches will surely not want to miss! Listen today and let Peter, Ruth & Gabe help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! For show notes and more information go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com

What are the challenges and opportunities coaching purpose-driven teams vs. profit-driven teams? How do we develop team leaders and teams working in hierarchical organizational settings? How do we balance the structural, relational and emergent needs and dynamics in teams? Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these compelling questions with special guest Jason Ighani. Jason Ighani is an accomplished team development specialist who brings over 15 years of (global experience) to KITE. He has worked extensively within the United Nations system in the areas of leadership development and performance management; specializing in assessing, launching and coaching leadership teams in both emergency and development contexts. Jason’s clients include a wide range of agencies and NGOs including UNICEF, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNHCR and the UN Secretariat. Jason is also the founder of The Humanitarian Coaching Network, an organization that enlists coaches worldwide to help humanitarian and development organizations support the engagement and wellbeing of their staff and accelerate organizational change. Jason often works with an organization's most senior leadership, and has a strong reputation for combining empathy with a candid, supportive, direct approach to helping teams become more responsive, aware and agile. Some themes explored in this episode include: The journey to becoming a team coach Balancing coaching the structural conditions of teams along with the relational and emergent aspects The special role of team leaders in team coaching as well as the limits of their role Coaching purpose-driven teams in the international humanitarian sector Clarity of purpose and accountability in teams Assessing team leader and team readiness for team coaching The frontier being more in the “art of team coaching” vs. the “science of team coaching” Continuing one’s evolution as a team coach And more! This is an episode full of value bombs that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! Start listening today and let Jason Ighani help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! For show notes and more information on team coaching go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com

Is our whole body actually a distributed brain? Can coaching with the body in mind lead to breakthroughs in behavior change and business results? How does embodiment coaching work at the team level? Tune into this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other interesting questions with special guest Amanda Blake--the Founder of Embright.org and the Author of Your Body is Your Brain. Amanda Blake has devoted her life to the spread of one simple message: when you learn how to access the intelligence hidden in sensation, you open the door to more meaning, greater courage, deeper connection, and more powerful leadership than you ever thought possible. She is a Founder, an Author, a Research Fellow, a Master Somatic Leadership Coach, a Doctoral Candidate at Case Western Reserve University, and more. Some themes explored in this episode include: Amanda’s journey from athlete to coach to master somatic coach / author / trainer and more The body as a distributed brain The body as our social and emotional sense organ Internal and external organs of perception The neurobiological aspects of behavior and learning Implications of embodiment approaches to coaching, leadership development and team effectiveness Stories of application Advice on how to get started exploring embodiment in your personal and professional life Learning resources And more! This episode is guaranteed to leave you with a deeper understanding of yourself, your body, your mind and more! Tune in today and let Amanda Blake help you take your individual and team coaching practice to the next level. This is an episode that you surely will not want to miss!

What is business agility and what does this mean for team coaches? How can team coaches incorporate agile thinking and practices into their work? Why is a holistic view that incorporates flow, learning and collaboration critical for fostering sustainable change? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and this week's special guest Patrick Steyaert to explore this and other compelling topics on this week's installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Patrick Steyaert is the Founder and Creator of Okaloa Flowlab. (www.okaloa.com). Patrick teaches and coaches business agility by making use of simulations that stimulate agile thinking. He and his partner, Arlene Vercammen, have succeeded in creating a worldwide network of trainers and coaches that use Okaloa Flowlab in their day-to-day teaching and coaching. With his work in upstream, customer and discovery Kanban, he helps organizations to look at the end-to-end flow from suspected to satisfied need. He is a recipient of the 2015 Brickell Key award for outstanding contribution to the Kanban community. Themes explored in this podcast:  Patrick's journey from doctoral training in object oriented coding to working as an agile coach in startups and companies, to becoming and entrepreneur and Founding Okaloa Defining business agility Being vs. Doing agile The 3 essential ingredients of Flow, Learning & Collaboration Okaloa Flowlab simulations How to make change viral in organizations Challenges coaching business agility in organizations How team coaches can incorporate agile thinking and practices into their work And more This episode is essential listening for all team coaches looking to incorporate new mindsets, tools and practices into their work! Get in the Zone today and let Patrick Steyaert and Okaloa Flowlab help you take your team coaching practice to the next level!