In the face of today's BANI (brittle, anxious, non-linear, incomprehensible) world, the need for "teamship infused leadership" is more important than ever. It requires leadership courage and self awareness to uncover blind spots and break out of limiting autopilot patterns. Yet, paradoxically, the most effective way for leaders and senior management to transform their organizations is to unlock the organization's synergy of teamship AND leadership - and harness that power to become higher performing, more results focused, increasingly effective, and organizationally and individually growth oriented.
This is not about abandoning organizational structure but evolving it to support continuous learning and innovation, allowing high-performing teams more autonomy in decision-making, and instilling heightened trust and candor up and down the organization. In the process, leaders realize they don't have all the answers and actively challenge the status quo. Change, and maybe even transformation, is possible only when a co-elevating and collaborative mindset it firmly entrenched in the organization.
In the trenches, teamship underpins a bias for schedule and time attentiveness, getting it right (early), taking smart risks and experimenting, fostering curiosity, encouraging candor, keeping it simple and focused, and holding a space where the best in everyone rises to the surface and is celebrated. As James W. Tamm so succinctly coined in his book Radical Collaboration, "Collaboration starts inside you first, then moves out into individual relationships, teams, and organizations." Teamship encompasses the whole - and when it inoculates leadership, a powerful potential emerges.
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You can only fully understand the system of an organization (or the Mount Everest Massif) by contemplating the whole, not any individual part of the structure or processes. Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing all elements holistically. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots’ of tasks or objectives.
Through a systems lens, the objective of a team coach is to harness the collective collaborative potential in an organization by creating and building a potent teamship mindset and framework.
Systemic team / leadership coaching anchors a generative container and accountability guardrails for leaders and teams to synergize. Through facilitating, advising, but mostly coaching, an accelerated teamship framework and culture emerges - where co-elevation spawns self-regulation and increased alignment with organizational goals and purpose.
I thought I had a plan around my goals, but am unclear where I am currently heading. Even though I am a VP, I feel stuck and lacking motivation and orientation as to what I should be doing in my career.
As the team lead, I am concerned we are not performing like we used to - collectively and individually. The more we try to collaborate, the more we struggle to find common ground, and the more ineffective the Team becomes.
Our organization continues to struggle with how to adapt to all the changes in the workplace the market, and how to retain good employees. Teamship seems to make sense conceptually - I understand why and what. I remain unclear how to turn things around.
We have talented, bright, and experienced people on the team, but we seem to be lacking the will and direction to effectively collaborate, create and perform. We are functioning more like a working group than a high performing Team.
Every person on the team knows what is happening, but is afraid to speak up. Because we need that person's experience on the team, we avoid the conflict. Unfortunately, the situation is getting worse and adversely affecting the team's performance
I have a hard time trusting the people on my Team. I find myself micro-managing far too much because I don't have the confidence in my peers. Team members are lacking in trust and psychological safety and it is negatively impacting our performance.