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The work of becoming a team – what do team members need from one another to do the work that matters?

Teams don’t exist in isolation. Every team sits within a wider system — an organisation, its culture, its structures, its history and the pressures around it. What happens between people in a team is shaped by all of these things.

I work with teams to understand not just how they relate to one another, but how they work together to achieve what they are there to do.

Good team dynamics matter. But a team that simply gets on well isn’t necessarily an effective team. Real trust is built when people can depend on one another: to speak honestly, challenge when it matters, take responsibility, make difficult decisions and follow through.

My role is to help teams understand the system they are part of, become more aware of the patterns that shape how they work, and develop the capacity to do the work that only they, collectively, can do.

Small groups. Real conversations. Multiple perspectives.

Where your challenge can become a starting point for everyone’s learning

In a small coaching circle, you benefit from the thinking, experience and perspective of everyone in the room. Someone else’s dilemma may help you see your own differently. A question asked of another person may be exactly the question you needed to hear. The magic is the combination of being deeply understood, and having your thinking and perspective expanded by other people’s experiences.

The group isn’t there to give advice or solve one another’s problems. It’s there to listen, think, question and learn together — with skilled coaching creating the conditions for conversations that go deeper than they might otherwise. Being understood by several people can sometimes feel more powerful than being understood by one.

Some circles bring together people from different organisations and sectors. Others are formed within an organisation around a shared level of responsibility or challenge.