Location, location, location part 3

Coming to you from Mangawhai (about 90 mins drive north of Auckland). I’m here on my third self-imposed writing retreat… and brimming with gratitude…

· to be living in one of the most beautiful countries in the world

· to have the opportunity and resources to be able to park life, hide, and do this

· to have had the most amazing experiences in my life, and more in progress

· to have the best and most caring friends and professional colleges I could ever wish for

· to have freedom and choice

And I could go on…

Reflecting and sharing personal reflections in a team context, is a great way to get conversation flowing, build trust, and create psychological safety. Try opening your next team meeting with a round table gratitude exercise. It is bound to reveal new information and generate smiles.

#gratitude#teamcoaching#psychologicalsafety#lovenewzealand

Put your won oxygen mask on first

… is the title of my contribution to Peter Hawkins most recent book, Leadership Team Coaching in Practice. I focus things I learnt about myself, the hard way, while working with a team. The EMCC Team Coaching Standards have something to say about this topic a well. “Develop and implement an appropriate process to maintain resilience and self-care and the active management of one’s own needs.” Note the words "active management" and "processes to maintain". Although the target audience is Team Coaches, the message here is of course equally applicable to every coach, every leader, every employee, every parent, every family member, every friend, everyone!

I was reminded last week how important self-care is for me too. And, thank you to my friends for reminding me.

Put your won oxygen mask on first – it’s not selfish, its a requirement!

#selfcare#selfcompassion#oxygen

If you or your team would like to talk more about "active management" and a "process to maintain" resilience and self-care, please get in touch.

Trust the team coaching process

I asked a past client recently "What advice would you give others on a team coaching journey that feel stuck, or seem to be going backwards?"

His response "Systems are complex, trust and focus on the process, don't fixate on the outcome. You won’t see the benefit every day as you are living it, and at times it might feel like you are losing not winning, stick with the process. With the benefit of hindsight, you might find the outcomes have actually developed organically to be greater than your original expectations." Thanks for your insight Gary Connolly. As I always say we learnt just as much from our clients as they learn working with us.

If you would like to know more about what the team coaching process might look like for your team, please get in touch.

#teamcoaching#teamdevelopment#insightsdiscovery#trusttheprocess