
Everyday Team Leadership: Influence Without Authority
In my career in business, I’ve often witnessed people who weren’t in a formal leadership role stepping up in powerful, positive ways - what I’d call leaderful actions...

Is the Future More than Just High-Performance?
The idea of the “high-performing team” often centres on efficiency, productivity, and results. While important, these measures don’t always serve the complexity, uncertainty, and deep interconnectedness of today’s and tomorrow’s world…

A Powerful Systems Framework for Team Working
We bring a number of ways of approaching the process and patterns of team development, but one that’s easy to research is Peter Hawkins’ model of systemic team coaching...

Seeing the Team as a System
Seeing a team this way shifts everything. Instead of simply asking, “What’s the problem” or “Who’s the problem?” we ask, “What’s the process?” Instead of fixing the immediate problem, or individuals, we explore patterns and dynamics...

Team Coaching: Grasping the Nettle
For a team, grasping the nettle means facing the tough stuff together - naming the unspoken tensions, tackling the tricky conversations, and stepping into challenge with honesty and care…

The Agony and Ecstasy of Teams: Living with the Continuum
In a world obsessed with collaboration, the cult of the team can sometimes go too far. We’ve all heard the slogans: “Teamwork makes the dream work”, “There’s no ‘I’ in team”, “Together everyone achieves more.” But what if our over-reliance on teams is holding us back?

Cultivating Thriving Teams: Lessons from Permaculture
Teams, like ecosystems, are complex and interconnected. In permaculture—a design philosophy based on natural systems—there’s a fundamental principle..

Team Group or Network? Why Choosing Poorly Wastes Time and Resources
In working with many extraordinary groups and teams there is nothing quite like the magic that can emerge when people working together are in their flow…

Teaming into the Future
How many more times do we need to read that we live in a fast-changing, complex world, where few challenges can be tackled alone before we take a step towards conscious change?