building capabilities
“The success of an intervention is wholly dependent on the inner state of the Intervenor”
Bill O’Brien, CEO of Hanover Insurance Company
Our building capabilities development work is tailored to each client specific context around the following dimensions
Self Mastery
Recognising your strengths and triggers; understanding your reactions and how you exhibit them; and increasing your awareness of how your inner state affects others, are vital to effective leadership and collaboration.
We work with individuals and teams to coach, peer coach and support teams to become more effective participants as well as more effective leaders.
How – developing individuals’ capabilities through a combination of coaching and training, as well as training peer coaches
Team Collaboration
The holy grail for modern organisations is teams whose effectiveness is more than the sum of their parts. This can be reliably created if teams know how to design and hold meetings and dialog that lead to the results they seek.
We provide the experience of working collaboratively, host the discussions about what made the work effective and how to replicate that, and support teams in designing and leading their own effective sessions.
How – facilitating workshops/team sessions with you and your teams to experience collaborative techniques and design thinking to solve issues. Particularly useful where people and teams may feel stuck, or may need an impulse to work differently.
Seeing systemically
We know that some situations and problems are simple, some are complicated, but some fall into the realm of the complex: in which multiple actors have dynamic interactions and adaptations which change the context in which they operate. This in turn influences their behaviours, which influences others behaviours, and thus the context, in a continuous stream of adaptations.
Working with systems, complexity and uncertainty, we bring methods and techniques for mastering the evolutionary potential of the current situation.
How – workshops with your team and involving its stakeholders to make sense together of the current situation and context, the desired future, and co-create a map and possible paths forward.
Collaborating across Teams
We support your organisation in scaling mastery at an individual and team level to increase collaboration across departments and teams –
- from highly diverse multicultural teams to relatively homogenous mono-cultural ones, and
- from geographically-dispersed teams operating in a virtual environment to those based in a single location –
- or a combination of all of those.
How – workshops with teams around issues that matter to them jointly, in which they experience, create a shared understanding of the dynamics at play, and define how their collaboration could best work – for them and for the organisation
Open programmes
Finding new ways of working and thinking together is most effective with your teammates. However, it can also be useful to practice new methods and approaches away from the team and office.
And – it can help you introduce these approaches and a deeper understanding of what they bring, to people who haven’t experienced them before.
Therefore, we offer Open Programmes on everything from Appreciative Inquiry to Leadership Presence to World Cafe. We even host a three-day exploration of designing and hosting participatory events and cultures.
These programmes attract participants from many walks of life, many countries, and diverse organisations.
