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TCZ Episode #115: Dr. Ruth Wageman: Fast Team Start-ups: Tips for Team Leaders and Developing Presence in Teams I never cease to learn great tips on coaching teams from my colleague Dr Ruth Wageman, a leading scholar and passionate practitioner in the field of collaboration and systems change. In this punchy 30 minute episode we focus specifically on immediate support for team leaders and teams in business and local communities responding to Covid-19. Specifically, as a coach or team leader how to do fast team start-ups? How do you hold the space for a team to get present with one another? How can you help teams become more emotionally resilient in these times? For episode show notes and more go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/wageman115 Also listen to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music or on your favorite podcast player!

TCZ Episode #114: Marita Fridjhon: Tips for Living and Working in a Virtual World During a Crisis We are in a huge moment of crisis and transition, this is a time to pull together. How do we learn to deal with the chaos of settling into a new reality that challenges how we work and live to the core? My guest in this episode in this episode is Marita Fridjhon, a long-standing colleague, mentor and the co-owner and CEO of the ICF accredited coaching training school CRR Global. We begin our transatlantic conversation talking about what's going on in the streets were we live and commenting on a recent blog by Otto Scharmer on what the global Coronavirus pandemic is teaching us about being in relationship and working together to change the system. This episode is full of practical tips for organizational leaders, families and of course, coaches and change makers. Some of the topics Marita and I cover include How CRR Global are working with their virtual global community to learn from and with each other Tips to c

TCZ Podcast #113: Karen Downes: Creating the Foundation For Human Flourishing in The Workplace: A Case Study What does it take for humans to flourish at work? Does our definition of resilience need redefining? What can you do to support a team in overwhelm and facing burnout? Join me Carissa Bub and guest Karen Downes, Founder and Managing Director of The Flourish Initiative as we talk about her experience training 1600 business leaders of a leading global organisation. as part of her mission to shift the business paradigm of growth and performance into a new model of human flourishing for business prosperity. Karen and I discuss: Her first career as a healer and building up a multi-dollar business in Australia The call to focus on corporate organisations and her bias for community over team Living in an age of exponential disruption and collapse Her intensive learning journey in 2018 supporting a leading global brand to transform its culture How human flourishing is a way to create psychological safety, con

Episode #112: Marcy Connors: A Master Practitioner Shares Best Practices on Coaching Virtual Teams and Team of Teams For businesses, big and small, one reality is an ever-growing workforce that is very mobile and could be based anywhere. Another reality is organizations becoming more team-based structures. This provides both opportunities and challenges to scaling leadership. Especially with different teams working in different time zones, with some team members working partial hours. Virtual team coaching can help to effectively and quickly scale leadership in a geographically dispersed organization. For companies moving at pace, virtual team coaching can help leadership teams to map out where cross-collaboration needs to happen and create the virtual conditions for shared leadership to emerge and continuously improve. If you are a business leader or team coach looking to expand your understanding of how to go about using virtual team coaching to scale shared leadership listen to my conversation with Mary Co

As organizations develop into more team-based structures what does effective communication and connectedness look like? How do you scale leadership in the face of increasing complexity and increasingly dispersed work communities? Listen to this latest episode with Carissa Bub in conversation with David Clutterbuck--one of the early pioneers of developmental coaching and mentoring and co-founder of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. David is author of more than 70 books, including the first evidence-based titles on coaching culture and team coaching. He is visiting professor at three business schools. He leads a global network of specialist mentoring and coaching consultants, Coaching and Mentoring International. In this episode David shares many 'How-To' moments on coaching different types of teams that I encounter on a regular basis and scenarios which I hope are relevant to you and many listeners of the Team Coaching Zone podcast. Some of the highlights for me included Discovering the PERIL mod

Happy New Year! Wishing you a 2020 filled with health, prosperity, and peace. Marita Fridjhon is an elder in the systemic coaching community. As co-owner and CEO of CRR Global, a leading school in Organisational & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), she trains and mentors an ever-growing community of practitioners in the field of Relationship Systems work. This is critical in today's shift in leadership to a more systems-inspired approach. I first met Marita in 2006 and since then along with her business partner Faith Fuller, she has become one of the most influential teachers in my own coaching journey. Curious to expand your systemic coaching lens? Want to know how this way of seeing can make you an even more effective team coach? Not heard of Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching and want to know more? You can reach Marita on https://www.crrglobal.com/marita-fridjhon.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/maritafridjhon/ More about Marita Fridjhon Raised in South Africa during Apartheid, Marit

A look back on the adventure-based learning journey at sea off the coast of Norway onboard the Wylde Swan, a tall ship built in 1920. A deep dive with Dr Krister Lowe and Dr Ruth Wageman and myself (Show Host - Carissa Bub) into what's possible when you put a group of team coaches and team leaders in a VUCA environment to learn about how to create and coach brilliant collaboration and team of teams. We cover: The origins and vision behind the Nautilus Experience Why learning to sail in team of teams is perfectly suited to help leaders and team coaches alike to adapt to doing business in a VUCA environment What we gained personally and professionally from the voyage What we learnt about how do create high performance collaboration and distributed leadership The ideal participant for the Cuba April 2020 voyage and July in Norway. For show notes and more information go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilusrediscovered

Team Coaching Zone Podcast | Season 2 with Carissa Bub | Episode #108 Jean Christophe Normand: Can Fasting Help Teams Achieve Breakthrough Results? In this episode, I (Carissa Bub) talk to Jean Christophe Normand, a certified coach, coach supervisor, leadership development facilitator, and deacon in the Roman Catholic Church on how he works with groups to expand consciousness and help leaders face the risk and uncertainty of our times through fasting. Some of the questions I ask him are How might this approach help leadership teams a crisis? What brought him to work this way with groups? How can fasting and meditation help foster collaboration and systems change? Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. More On Jean-Christophe Normand Jean-Christophe is a certified coach and coach supervisor (PCC) at ICF since 2012 and a professional facilitator in leadership and management skills since 2009. His background is a 20-year finance and controlling exp

This week on the show, we are in Brazil where Felipe Paiva, organizational consultant and coach joins his client Henrique Gonzales Garcia Filho, Head of HR at Prumo global logistics group, and me (Carissa Bub) as we delve into a live case study on how to use a team of teams approach to transform a multi-business economic group responsible for the strategic development for the largest privately owned port in Brazil. We discuss: The business case that brought them together their partnership The initial and ongoing design behind their work What assessment tools they used The successes and challenges on the way How to help highly complex systems learn faster What facilitation and coaching competencies are needed What really makes the difference Lessons learnt and tips to share More on Felipe Paiva Felipe is the founding partner of Artisan Consulting. In his own words... "My purpose is to enable more humane organizations, where people can fulfill their potential and create shared-value. I pursue this purpose com

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/, on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. This week on the show, Nicholas Janni, transformational coach, leadership development specialist and founder of Core Presence joins me Carissa Bub as we talk how we tend to live in a world of absence, what happens when you combine being and doing, and how developing presence can transform teams and organisations. Nicholas and I discuss: His childhood discovery aged 16 that inspires his work What led him to theatre as a spiritual practice The work and his experience as a co-founder of Olivier Mythodrama What he means by presence and how he defines leadership presence What it takes to help leaders and teams shift their concept of reality How he works with teams His work at IMD in preparing leaders for the future His vision for cultures of presence More on Nicholas: Over the last 15 years Nicholas has gained an international reputation for his transformational coac

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. This week on the show, Cynthia Loy Darst, Master Coach, coach trainer, keynote speaker and author of Meet Your Inside Team, joins me Carissa Bub to talk about how to triumph over your hardest client yet, yourself (!), and how to help others to do the same. In this episode, Cynthia and I cover a range of topics including: Her early influences as an actor in New York in the 1980s How she left acting to pursue a deeper fascination with people Founding the faculty of two world-leading coaching schools What she has learnt working as a team with her husband Her experiences as a front of room leader for CTI and CRRGlobal What led to her discovery of the Inside Team The influence of other systems work methodologies on her thinking How she works with her Inside Team How she uses this approach to manage internal conflict Why knowing your Inside Team can help you as a Coach How to help your client Team work with their

This week on the show, Melanie Seymour, former Head of Budapest for BlackRock now head of Global Client Services, joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about how she led the building of BlackRock’s newest organisation and centre for innovation, scaling from zero to 500 hires in less than two years. We spoke while Melanie was in Budapest, a place she has fallen in love with, a few months before she accepted her new role at Blackrock. Melanie and I discuss: • Her previous experience building and selling her first financial services business in the UK • How she set out to create a team that thinks differently and is capable of innovation • The challenges she faced in the set up and build out of the organisation • How she set out to create a team and team of teams culture • Making the new organisation an integral part of the global organisation • Her passion for creating inclusive modern organisations • Advice for team coaches working with scale ups and global organisations • Beyond teams, the critical importance of c

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music Play, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. This week on the show, Matthias Scheffelmeier, partner at Ashoka Germany joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about the leadership team’s journey on becoming a self-managing organisation, the power of working with a leadership team coach, and his passion for Change Makers Exchange, a growing movement of young social entrepreneurs. Matthias and I discuss: How Matthias at a young age was focused on corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship His experiences working at MicroSoft and the need for me that took him to Askhoka The work of Ashoka Germany and how it supports social entrepreneurs today Outer transformation can only come about through inner transformation doing the inner work What it took to transform the organisation and how coaching really helped Lessons learnt in the transition from a more traditional partnership model to a self-managing organisation Using t

Episode #102: Andrew Taggart: The Art of Philosophizing and Teams Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, on SoundCloud, Google Music Play, on Stitcher Radio, or on Spotify. This week on the show, Andrew Taggart, Zen Buddhist, practical philosopher and Founder of Askole joins me Carissa Bub (Show Host) as we talk about the future of work, how the art of philosophising can help teams align their work with the pursuit of having a good life, and the differences and similarities between systemic coaching and philosophising. Andrew and I discuss: What took him to becoming a practical philosopher What attracted him to living a contemplative life Why philosophical questions matter today The types of organizations drawn to this work His work with tech teams and entrepreneurs How he goes about running a group session What the art of philosophising and teams sounds like How coaches working with groups might use this art The future of work and how this type of inquiry helps define it More on Andrew An

Episode #101: A Personal Introduction to Season Two by Carissa Bub. Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, on SoundCloud, Google Music Play, on Stitcher Radio, or on Spotify. This week on the show you can listen to Carissa, as she introduces herself and the second season of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. She shares: Her orientation to life Her professional journey thus far What attracted her to want to host the podcast What types of organizations she work with Her vision for this podcast What she would like from you More on Carissa: For the past 18 years Carissa has run an international practice coaching senior leaders, C-Suite leadership teams and scale-ups to create value through the power of human connection. She works systemically with real-time business issues and relationship challenges from the boardroom to the factory floor and develops leaders so they expand consciousness, transforming themselves, their teams and organizations to be catalysts for good in the world. Core focus

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this special review and celebration of the first 100 episodes of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast as well as his farewell as the host of the show. In this episode Krister: Shares high level reflections on hosting the podcast since its inception on January 1, 2015 Revisits the main purposes of the show as envisaged in Episode #001 and conducts an informal After Action Review Shares some highlights from key episodes as well as essential lessons learned Explores future trends in the team coaching field Discusses the future of The Team Coaching Zone Invites future show host Carissa Bub onto the podcast to share her vision of how she will lead the Team Coaching Zone Podcast in its next evolution Shares parting thoughts and a heartfelt farewell For show notes and more information on team coaching as well as links to all 100 episodes of the show go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/

What are the forces, trends and movements impact the field of team development and team coaching? How can we as team coaches and field of team coaching itself stay fit for purpose? How can we collaborate across our diverse approaches to address the fundamental challenges of our time? Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone podcast to explore these and other compelling questions. Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and a panel of distinguished guests--Dr. Peter Hawkins, Dr. Ruth Wageman & Gabe Abella--for a dynamic round table discussion. Themes explored in this episode include: Areas of commonality between Peter, Ruth and Gabe's approaches to working with teams The work of today and tomorrow as the focal point of team coaching Creating the conditions for great collaborations Collaborative intelligence - WeQ Working across levels of system Sustainable work practices in teams: expanding our view of team effectiveness Renewal in teams Movements, forces and trends impacting teams and team coaching

What are the challenges and opportunities coaching purpose-driven teams vs. profit-driven teams? How do we develop team leaders and teams working in hierarchical organizational settings? How do we balance the structural, relational and emergent needs and dynamics in teams? Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these compelling questions with special guest Jason Ighani. Jason Ighani is an accomplished team development specialist who brings over 15 years of (global experience) to KITE. He has worked extensively within the United Nations system in the areas of leadership development and performance management; specializing in assessing, launching and coaching leadership teams in both emergency and development contexts. Jason’s clients include a wide range of agencies and NGOs including UNICEF, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNHCR and the UN Secretariat. Jason is also the founder of The Humanitarian Coaching Network, an organization that enlists coaches worldwide to hel

Is our whole body actually a distributed brain? Can coaching with the body in mind lead to breakthroughs in behavior change and business results? How does embodiment coaching work at the team level? Tune into this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other interesting questions with special guest Amanda Blake--the Founder of Embright.org and the Author of Your Body is Your Brain. Amanda Blake has devoted her life to the spread of one simple message: when you learn how to access the intelligence hidden in sensation, you open the door to more meaning, greater courage, deeper connection, and more powerful leadership than you ever thought possible. She is a Founder, an Author, a Research Fellow, a Master Somatic Leadership Coach, a Doctoral Candidate at Case Western Reserve University, and more. Some themes explored in this episode include: Amanda’s journey from athlete to coach to master somatic coach / author / trainer and more The body as a distributed b

What is business agility and what does this mean for team coaches? How can team coaches incorporate agile thinking and practices into their work? Why is a holistic view that incorporates flow, learning and collaboration critical for fostering sustainable change? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and this week's special guest Patrick Steyaert to explore this and other compelling topics on this week's installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Patrick Steyaert is the Founder and Creator of Okaloa Flowlab. (www.okaloa.com). Patrick teaches and coaches business agility by making use of simulations that stimulate agile thinking. He and his partner, Arlene Vercammen, have succeeded in creating a worldwide network of trainers and coaches that use Okaloa Flowlab in their day-to-day teaching and coaching. With his work in upstream, customer and discovery Kanban, he helps organizations to look at the end-to-end flow from suspected to satisfied need. He is a recipient of the 2015 Brickell Key award for outstanding con