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Writer's picture: Helen ZinkHelen Zink

On Friday a team showed me how their individual strengths interacted as collective team strengths using Lego. There were plenty of planes and cars and bridges, and most importantly a feedback loop, indicating how they continually learn and adapt. When I asked them where their stakeholders were they said “throughout the model -integrated all the way through”. I asked them about specific stakeholders groups including their staff, other parts of the organisation, external stakeholders, future stakeholders, the future physical environment, and climate change. “They are all integrated they said – we are all in this together”. Love your attitude team and I’m proud you hold your stakeholders at the centre of all you do (even if you had to adjust your business plan afterwards to reflect your Lego model).


If you’d like to understand how your team’s strengths interact, please get in touch. We don’t know what insight will come from the conversation until we’re in it!



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Writer's picture: Helen ZinkHelen Zink

We are all familiar with resilience - we've certainly had a lot of practice with it over the last few years. Well, it applies to teams too. Team resilience is the combined team’s response to adversity, and their ability to overcome it together (All Blacks take note). The collective is different (and hopefully greater) than the sum of individual parts. Hartwig et al (2020) say team resilience comprises of:

· The resilience of individual team members

· Good team processes such as: ground rules, decision making, planning

· Collective emotional support

· Psychological safety and trust

· Clear team identity and purpose

· Effective communication, collaboration, and coordination

What a co-incidence! We focus on all these factors in team development and coaching too!


If your team would like to explore and build their combined resilience, please get in touch.



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Writer's picture: Helen ZinkHelen Zink

I like to think clients benefit from time we spend together. However, the best coach a client will ever have is their leader. We all know that learning is most effective when integrated with real life work situations and the person best placed to support that is the leader.

Along with some basic coaching tools and skills (such as powerful questioning) leaders need to have a coaching mindset which means being/having:

· Open to personal learning and feedback

· Empathy with others

· Ability to empowering others

· Developing and supporting others

· A belief that others want to learn

· High standards

(Ellinger, Beattie and Hamlin, 2010)

If you are a leader and you would like know more about developing a coaching mindset, and creating a habit of coaching your staff and team, please get in touch.


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