When coming together digitally with leaders in your organisation,  the meeting often becomes very task focussed. With the past couple of years demanding a significant increase in video conferencing as our default meeting platform, it's time that we re-introduce the human element of connection.

Whilst we all navigate the ups and downs of Covid as leaders, being flexible is vital. 

Advance Your Business was engaged by NCN Health to facilitate some important work with an amalgamated team. The sticky wall (shown in photograph above) was used in one of the sessions to create a visual illustration of the critical processes the team members were involved in.

Your organisation’s Vision is a beacon, encouraging others to follow.  Not to be confused with goals or values, it represents your organisation’s unique destination.

At the end of each year, I like to reflect on past successes and challenges – to learn from them and take this wisdom forwards.  I do 2 things – firstly I create a visual diagram (as below) which helps me to focus and organise my thinking.  My ‘big’ learnings usually cost me emotionally as I debate with myself how best to proceed, thinking through options, taking the impact on myself and others into account, then making and implementing a decision.  So why not gain a continuous benefit from this effort?

I was at a women’s VFL football match a few weeks ago – the last round of the year.  The Team I was following had no chance of making the top 4 for a finals berth – their season was all but over.  My daughter has played with her team for nearly 10 years, having chosen the team based on how she felt when she first trained with them (i.e. team culture).  When she was looking at which team to join, there were 2 geographically close teams – she trained with one for 2 weeks but did not feel included…she chose the other and joined them, 120 games or so ago now.

I had an energising mentoring session this week with a CEO with whom I have worked for a number of years.  It was an intense hour and a half, during which we shone light on 2 or 3 key issues to be addressed and worked out a way forwards.

Out on my early morning walk recently, I was fascinated to discover a small army of green ants dragging their dinner, a piece of a large dead earth worm, up a tree – straight up, vertically – no mean effort.

Most of us work in teams, sometimes multiple teams, both within our workplace and across other organisations.  When things go smoothly, we tend not to notice – but when the team is not working well, it causes all sorts of problems.