You are on the moors with your team and you are working very hard with the best of intentions. You have a wonderful team day but in the long run you see no effect of that beautiful day on the heath. Team coaches do not break the unconscious underlying patterns. Dependence on the team coach perpetuates an underlying pattern. You remain dependent on an external leader, a protocol, a structure of help us work better together. As a team coach, you feel the team is looking to you, they want leadership. How to deal with that and what your role is as a leader and or team coach, we discuss today with Jobbeke de Jong. Jobbeke wrote the book "Master You! - Intervening in collaboration beyond your own hassles.'
Jobbeke de Jong is an organizational psychologist and has been training professionals in coaching teams in organizations for years. She is founder of Tachles, a network of collaborating team and organizational coaches. Tachles provides training in intervention science and offers team programs in organizations. All interventions are grounded in systems thinking and systemic viewing. She is the author of Competent People, Incompetent Teams.
Luggage
Everyone has baggage. A lot of training is partly about yourself. There your whole baggage and your history is often examined and searched. That's also necessary, Jobbeke explains. But what is actually missing is, what is the impact in the now?
"How does your baggage, your survival strategy resonate. How does that resonate with any team you're working with now. What is evoked in you and how do you make sure that you are not reacting from all your old baggage, but that you are very much in touch with what your job role is. What is needed now to get the team as a whole moving and that link is often missing."
The start
According to Jobbeke, you can think of a team as a living organism. In fact, teams have their own identity. "Most teams in organizations are in the first phase of development. We call that phase the 'dependency phase.' The word says it all, such a team can be compared to a very young child, which is really dependent on external frameworks. We look at the leader. A leader who sets good and clear frameworks will help his team do the work. That is the basis of team dynamics where every team starts. There is no other way," the organizational psychologist said.
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Find the book "Controlling You - Intervening Collaboratively Beyond Your Own Hassles" here.
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