Discipline of Develop
Teams are like wells of wisdom – but seldom accessed. In this blog, I focus on the 5th Discipline of Smart Teams, the Discipline of Development – how teams learn and evolve, together.
A most distinguishing factor between a group and a team of leaders, is teams share an enduring commitment to one another’s learning, development and success. Teams take responsibility for creating the collective wisdom that evolves from understanding what enabled them to succeed and what contributed to their failures.
Teams learn through reflection and dialogue.
Teams reflect; they observe themselves. Teams acknowledge they can’t change what they can’t see and through reflection, they come to see things differently and access new possibilities. Teams are disciplined observers of themselves and others.
Learning happens through dialogue - conversations. Teams create a safe space to seek feedback from and offer feedforward to one another. Teams are as much open to learn as they are to unlearn – they release themselves from assessments and habits that do not serve them. They are mindful of their individual and collective ‘enemies’ and ‘allies’ of learning.
To embody the Discipline of Development, I invite, as a team, you reflect and share insights on the following:
- When we are at our best as a team, what enables us to be so?
- When we are not at our best as a team, what thinking and behaviours contributes to this?
- To team at our best, what is most important we collectively commit to learn more about and to change?
To demonstrate your commitment to learn, I invite you share your responses to the above, with your respective team members and seek their help and support to help you become the best team you need to be.
Give it a go, there’s only upside!
Director at Resource Advisory and Liberated Leaders
5 年You make a valid point Beno, in that learning happens within the conversations of a team and the conditions the leader creates to enable these conversations to arise.