Teams, Patterns of Behaviour and the People Work

Like we were saying yesterday it shouldn’t be all doom and gloom. We’ve seen amazing examples of positives come out of these horrendous times and learned a lot and we must find ways to remain obstinately focused on them. 

In this video, Ffion and I walk you through some of the patterns and anti-patterns of behaviour that we have seen teams go through in the last few months. 

https://youtu.be/NwSFf9apBkA

With our Covid aid offer alone -which is ending this week-, we have onboarded a few tens of teams and while they all come from very different industries, are at different stages of remote work and are of vastly different sizes, we have seen more commonalities than we have seen differences. Often times the team dynamics are the same and chances are, you too are seeing some of these:

• Change of management. Same team, change of leader when the old one hasn’t lead with Psychological Safety at heart and has, therefore, left the team scarred and wary of the new manager coming in;
• General restructure. Forming, storming and norming were not clearly delimited phases but intermingled with lack of clear communication and vision and fear of speaking up adding to the mix;
• Removing one individual who wasn’t a cultural fit but not addressing the core root of the team dynamic problem or not being able to strengthen the “bubble”;
• A lack of focus on the people work - feeling like there’s no permission or willingness to work on the human topics and therefore not feeling empowered to make the changes that make substantial differences in the team dynamic. 

Any and all of these will affect a team’ Psychological Safety and therefore implicitly, their ability to perform. 

The one thing that most pleasantly surprised us and maybe the best news here is that all teams we work with, from those that only used the software a few times to those who use it daily and in every retro, they all saw their numbers on individual components go up and their general sense of “bubble” and “trust” increase and that’s because the mere fact of becoming intentional about the people work, holding the space and the permission for it alongside empowering everyone to make behavioural changes are what makes the magic happen. 

Next week we have a new bag of tricks and tips to unload for you but meanwhile reach out to get on the software while you can, think of the patterns above and keep on the only competitive advantages you can hope for: the people work and the team.

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