A six month programme working systemically with the team, individuals and sub-groups within the team, aimed at optimising the team's potential within the wider organisational context.

Outcomes:

•  A clear charter for the team aligning the team's goals, objectives and core processes towards the needs of stakeholders.

•  A shared mental model for the members of the team on team and team member aspirations and common goals.

•  A simple process for core learning and future realignments that can be operated by the team to fit with future contexts.

•  Recommendations on aspects of the team design and structure that further support the team's goals and aspirations.

Why work systemically?

Research shows us that “multifaceted, system wide organizational interventions show the most reliable positive impact on organizational effectiveness.. [and that] team-oriented interventions are one of a few subsets of interventions that have the most notable effects, and team-oriented interventions affect both financial and behavioral measures of performance.”

Our approach is based on some fundamental principles and also tailored to the unique situation of the team. This is because teams: “exist in context as they perform across time. Over time and contexts, teams and their members continually cycle and recycle. They interact among themselves and with other persons in contexts. These interactions change the teams, team members, and their environments in ways more complex than is captured by simple cause and effect perspectives.”

Teams are becoming increasingly dominant within the world of research. As Stefan Wuchty says:

“We have used 19.9 million papers over 5 decades and 2.1 million patents to demonstrate that teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge. Research is increasingly done in teams across nearly all fields. Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time. Teams now also produce the exceptionally high impact research, even where that distinction was once the domain of solo authors. These results are detailed for sciences and engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities, and patents, suggesting that the process of knowledge creation has fundamentally changed ”

Galahad systemic team coaching is about systemic work with the team: whether together; or individually or in sub-groups, explicitly and collectively raising the team's awareness of the team identity, the ways in which it is connected with other relevant entities and the needs of its stakeholders. With the intention of increasing the team's capacity and effectiveness, to both respond to the needs of its stakeholders and to build-in the ability to sustain this continual development.

The idea that the individual is in the team can be misleading. In fact you could say that the team is in the individual! This is a little like a set of Russian dolls. The team exists only as a mental construct of the individuals associated with the team. These constructs are like the smaller Russian dolls hidden from view. The construct might be positive or negative, successful or unsuccessful, important or unimportant or in fact a combination of all of the above! We work to bring these Russian dolls out into the open, so that meaningful conversations and communication can take place about the team, it's purpose, goals and the expectations of stakeholders. Only then can real progress be achieved.

Science 316, 1036 (2007); Stefan Wuchty, et al. The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge

Annual. Rev. Psychol. 1996. 47:p.328 TEAMS IN ORGANIZATIONS: Recent Research on Performance and Effectiveness, Richard A. Guzzo and Marcus W. Dickson

Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2005. 56:517–43, TEAMS IN ORGANIZATIONS: From Input-Process-Output Models to IMOI Models Daniel R. Ilgen, John R. Hollenbeck, Michael Johnson, and Dustin Jundt

Well known Anthropologist Margaret Mead said “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that has.”

“Organisations exist only for one purpose: to help people reach ends together that they couldn't achieve individually.” Robert H. Waterman

“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.” Plato

“The way a team plays together as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.” Babe Ruth

Would you like to find out more? For your free discussion on realising the potential from your team(s) email or call Richard for a confidential consultation.

Richard Clarke 07810 638809

Richard@galahadtransitions.com