Increase Your Capacity to Work With Diverse Others
We often hear how diversity in thinking drives innovation and creative adaptation to challenges. At the same time, we have to admit that differences in others' opinions, values, goals, approaches and behaviours also contribute to us feeling overwhelmed, stressed and disappointed with a lack of progress, reducing our ability to achieve. Most people seek agreement and try to avoid conflict, not realising that the very discomfort born out of tensions gives rise to creativity and new ways of being and doing.
We often hear how diversity in thinking drives innovation and creative adaptation to challenges. At the same time, we have to admit that differences in others' opinions, values, goals, approaches and behaviours also contribute to us feeling overwhelmed, stressed and disappointed with a lack of progress, reducing our ability to achieve. Most people seek agreement and try to avoid conflict, not realising that the very discomfort born out of tensions gives rise to creativity and new ways of being and doing.
What's Important?
To successfully harness tensions in diverse teams, you need:
Group (or Team) Coaching provides a reflective space for you to share your challenges, to notice how your own frame of mind, implicit assumptions and patterns of behaviour impact how you see others and how others might be experiencing you. It enables you to develop the capacity to notice in action how your group interacts and what those interactions make possible and what becomes impossible. Group coaching also presents an opportunity to practice co-creating new and better ways of working for the group, as well as to co-design experiments to try in your workplace. It gives you and your peers a chance to take risks and learn safely and fast from your own and others’ insights. |
Program Outcomes
You and your peers will achieve greater collective results and fulfilment at work by increasing your ability to:
What is it like? Our role is to create an environment that:
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