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Episode 101 - The 5 things every team should do to be more effective

Show Notes

Effective leadership means understanding the needs of all stakeholders, not just your team members. When teams broaden their thinking to their customer base, to the wider ecology, and even to future generations, they make more effective decisions.


Professor Peter Hawkins has a lifetime of experience working on systemic team coaching, leadership development, and organisational change. He’s a pioneer in integrating strategic and culture change along with leadership development, and he emphasises the importance of connecting personal, team, organisational, and ecological levels of change.

Takeaways from Dan and Pia

Three reasons to listen

  • Learn about systemic team coaching and how to effectively integrate stakeholder perspectives into team dynamics
  • Understand the importance of collective purpose in team development and how it drives effective collaboration and learning
  • Explore the concept of the pracademic, and the value they bring to team coaching environments

Episode highlights

  • [00:07:26] Finding the learning edge
  • [00:09:42] As practical as a good theory
  • [00:11:04] Minimum stakeholder map
  • [00:14:32] Leadership is a team sport
  • [00:16:21] The 5 disciplines of highly effective teams
  • [00:19:29] Where does psychological safety fit in?
  • [00:22:12] What can you uniquely do that the world of tomorrow needs?
  • [00:24:13] Reframing how we tackle problems and people
  • [00:25:41] Peter's media recommendation
  • [00:27:17] Takeaways from Dan and Pia

Links

Meet the guests

Professor Peter Hawkins is a globally recognized thought leader, author, and trainer in Systemic Team Coaching (systemicteamcoaching.com). He is the Chair of Renewal Associates (renewalassociates.co.uk), that work with organizations across sectors and around the world. He teaches and conducts training sessions and masterclasses worldwide, equipping professionals with cutting-edge leadership and coaching methodologies that are needed to meet global and organisational challenges of the 21st Century.

He has consulted with many leading global businesses, delivering insights and strategies that drive organisational transformation and leadership excellence. He has also authored and contributed to many publications.

His extensive bibliography includes:

• “Beauty in Leadership and Coaching: and the transformation of Human Consciousness”, Routledge.

• "Leadership Team Coaching", (4th edition)Kogan Page

• "Leadership Team Coaching in Practice", (3rd edition) Kogan Page• "Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual" (with Eve Turner), Routledge

• "Creating a Coaching Culture", McGraw Hill

• "The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership" John Hunt Publishing

• "Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development" (second edition) (with Nick Smith), McGraw Hill/OpenUp

• "Integrative Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice" (with Judy Ryde), Jessica Kingsley

• "Supervision in the Helping Professions" (5th edition, with Aisling MacMahon), McGraw Hill/OpenUp

• Co-author of “Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching.” Routledge

Professor Hawkins' contributions have significantly shaped contemporary practices in team coaching and his work continues to influence and inspire leaders, coaches, and consultants around the globe.

He is also Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and is a visiting Professor at the Universities of Bath and Oxford Brookes and has taught at a wide variety of universities both in the UK and South Africa. Specialties:

• Coaching Boards and Executive Teams

• Organizational Transformation

• Leadership Development