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Being direct: pain and gain

Last Friday on Co-Create Coach Camp we were discussing direct communication as a skill/tool to enhance our communication/coaching. Why is it needed and how can you ensure that you have the right impact? Self-Defence Humans are super-creative how NOT to hear what they do not want to hear. Just think of all the self defence […]

It may sound weird and paradoxical to have a favourite model for grieving, but I actually have one. Grief and loss is so very much part of our life and organizations’ everyday reality that it is worth giving it a thought. The other day one of my coaching client working on how to find the […]

This post will focus on how conflicts can easily become team-traps. The term team-trap was coined to refer to a phenomenon that prevent a team from performing at its best. These are mostly in a team’s blind spot: teams may very well not be aware of how these phenomena sabotage their performance.  It is a […]

Team traps are a phenomenon that prevent a team from performing at its best. These are mostly in a team’s blindspot: teams may very well not be aware of how these phenomena sabotage their performance. The quality of accountability may easily constitute a team trap. In the previous blogpost of this series, we took a […]

Team traps: the question of accountability

“Is this really my responsibility?” Does this sentence sound familiar? If so, most likely you yourself have already been a member of a team where accountability was worth taking into consideration. Perhaps a team which fell into a trap, which they couldn’t free themselves from alone. But why is accountability a pertinent question for teams […]