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We have recently had many opportunities
to assist clients with Team Coaching
interventions across a variety of industries
including Financial Services, IT,
Pharmaceuticals and Agriculture. So often teams
blame external events in their lives for their
lack of growth. How limiting is this? Let’s face
it, “life is not orderly” (see Quote of the
Month above), and so the challenge remains for
all teams to choose how they respond to
unexpected events, change and uncertainty.
At Maestro Performance, our Team Coaches and
Facilitators use a three-pronged approach in our
team development interventions:
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Each team member focuses on learning
more about their own personalities, preferred
roles and behaviours in a team, strengths,
stretches, blind spots, paradigms, etc. |
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With enhanced personal awareness and
understanding, each team member gets the
opportunity to learn about the other team
members in more detail and to realise how they
fit into the overall team – how can they work
better together? How can they support and
complement each other more, given their
strengths and stretches? How can they deal more
effectively with potential areas of conflict?
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The team, as a whole, begins to
identify how each member’s strengths can be
leveraged in order to meet team challenges and
achieve team goals in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives. Individuals
agree to their own personal commitments to the
team and individual and team action plans are
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The recent euphoria and excitement
created by the Lions Rugby team winning the
Currie Cup is a superb example of how a common
team vision and teamwork can achieve results
much greater than “the sum of the parts”.
Against a star-studded Sharks team, the Lions
maintained their levels of belief, drive and
discipline throughout the final game. Their
focus was not even hindered by the awarding of a
“dubious” try to the Sharks. The Lions leveraged
their overall team strengths of defence, speed
and creativity to win the Cup that they so
wanted and ultimately deserved.
We wish you a
fulfilling last two months in 2011 – may they be
a sound conclusion to a year that has been
uncertain, challenging, and yet not without
opportunities and learning.
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The recent tragic story about the Chinese toddler reminded me of the insights contained in Margaret Heffernan’s book “Wilful Blindness”. For those of you who missed the story:
It happened outside a hardware market in Foshan, Guangdong Province. Two-year-old Wang Yue was seen toddling in the middle of a narrow street and looking around, oblivious to a fast-approaching ...
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South Africa and Italy |
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Two recent holiday trips highlighted the differences between our country and Italy. We were fortunate to have a three-week holiday in Italy and then we took Vincent, a young black student, to see the sea for the first time.
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Talk by Nick Badminton,
Pick and Pay (PnP) CEO |
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The other evening we attended a talk by the CEO of Pick n Pay, Nick Badminton, at the Regenesys
Business School. It was an honest discussion
about where PnP is at present and where it needs
to go.
His talk really
resonated with us at Maestro Performance as he
used excerpts from the TED talk on comparing
leaders with conductors (His
father was a conductor):
Click Here to view the video. He ends with Leonard Bernstein, at a stage late in his career, where he just leads through his facial expressions – a nod, a smile. Nothing more needed to produce superb music – what leadership to empower the orchestra to play masterfully with so little physical effort from him!
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