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Team Effectiveness

Being Real: How Honest Conversations Build Stronger Teams

When conscious teams experience challenging dynamics, before we point outward, we turn inward. Owning our part means looking at how we might be contributing to the dynamic - through our assumptions, reactions, or what we’ve left unsaid.

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Noticing the Line: The Shift That Changes Everything

In every meeting, moment, or mess, we’re having an impact - intentional or not. How we show up matters. And how we show up together shapes the culture we’re creating.

Navigating Polarities with Others

Whether within teams, across organisations, or between broader systems, polarities shape how we make decisions, build culture, and respond to an increasingly complex world.

Navigating Polarities Within Yourself

Developing the ability to engage with an opposing pole expands our leadership capacity. It isn’t about abandoning our strengths - rather complementing them with the ability to draw on the opposite pole as needed.

Why Polarities Matter in Leadership

Feel pulled between action and reflection, or structure and flexibility? What if these tensions weren’t problems to fix but polarities to navigate? Explore how leaning into this dynamic can strengthen your leadership.

February 28, 2025

The Leadership Pause: Cultivating Reflection for Sustainable Impact

In the rush of daily demands, it’s easy to skip reflection. But taking a moment to pause can lead to better decisions, clearer thinking, and real break-through. Here’s why reflection matters.

February 21, 2025

The Leadership Balancing Act: Structure and Emergence

Great leaders don’t eliminate tension between structure and emergence—they embrace it as a source of strength. They create stability without rigidity and adaptability without chaos, fostering an environment where both execution and innovation thrive.

February 7, 2025

The Power of Presence: Leadership as Alchemy

Leaders are invited to re-imagine how they lead by cultivating presence - the ability to be fully engaged, attuned and intentional.

November 15, 2024

Genuine and Authentic Connection – The Heartbeat of Transformation

Organisations don’t transform, people do. Transformation happens when teams feel connected, supported and safe to show up authentically as they navigate adaptation and create new possibilities together.

November 8, 2024

Let It Go and Let It Come - The Dance of Transformation

Leading transformation with purpose invites leaders to let things go and let things come; navigating both the releasing outdated ways of working and staying open to new possibilities.

November 1, 2024

Deep Enquiry – Unlocking Hidden Truths to Enable Transformation

Leading transformation requires leaders to slow down, question their assumptions and dig beneath the surface to uncover what’s really going on.

September 20, 2024

Love – The Heart of Compassionate Leadership

Imagine a leadership style where love serves as a cornerstone enabling leaders to hold a deep respect for the humanity and potential of every individual.

September 13, 2024

Leading with Hope - Creating Possibilities in Uncertain Times

Hope - the belief in the possibility of a brighter future and the potential that lies ahead, serving as a powerful force that drives leaders and their teams forward.

September 6, 2024

Faith – The Anchor for Leaders Amidst Uncertainty

In leadership, faith is about truly believing in your mission, vision, and the people around you. It’s having confidence in where you're going and trusting your team, even when the way forward is uncertain.

August 23, 2024

Balancing Relationships and Results

As leaders, cultivating healthy relationships helps us foster trust and collaboration, and maintaining a focus on results ensures we meet goals and keep moving forward.

August 16, 2024

Balancing Dance Floor and Balcony Perspectives

Effectively navigating between the Balcony (big-picture, holistic viewpoint) and the Dance Floor (immersive, hands on experience) is crucial for nuanced and effective leadership.

Balancing Knowledge and Wisdom

Through balancing our pursuit of knowledge with accessing the deep, often untapped well of inner wisdom, we can navigate the complexities of leadership with greater presence and awareness.

Navigating Overcomplying Leadership

Overcomplying leaders operate from a set of internal assumptions that prioritise harmony, acceptance, and conflict avoidance, often believing that their value comes from being liked, accepted, and seen as a team player.

Navigating Overprotecting Leadership

The foundational beliefs of overprotecting leaders centre on the need to be safe by protecting themselves and establishing their worth through their knowledge.

Navigating Overcontrolling Leadership Styles

While an overcontrolling leadership approach can lead to high performance, it can also lead to stress and burnout, inhibit collaboration, stifle creativity and limit cohesion within and across teams.

Team Effectiveness

Co-Creating Team Impact

Effective teams drive meaningful outcomes by understanding their impact, evaluating their progress, and adapting strategies through clear metrics, stakeholder engagement and feedback.

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Co-Creating Team Trust

Effective teams build trust by forming strong relationships and collaborating effectively. This trust fosters open communication and a shared purpose, leading to more cohesive teams.

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Co-Creating Team Clarity

Teams connect and commit better when they understand the organisation's strategic direction and purpose, are clear on how their role contributes and can align their effort through shared goals.

Cultivating Generative Conversations

Candice Smith, founder of The Thinking Field and one of Australia's few Time To Think Faculty members, shares her insights on cultivating generative conversations.

Cultivating Authentic and Courageous Conversations

Embracing authenticity through openness and honesty fosters genuine dialogue, builds authentic relationships, influences outcomes, and breaks down barriers, even amid uncertainty.

Cultivating Creative Conversations

As leaders, the conversations we enable can either shut us down or inspire us. Fostering the right conversations can profoundly impact team dynamics, performance, and wellbeing.

Understanding and Leveraging Our Primary Drivers

Real-world case studies of leaders who have navigated their leadership journey by understanding and leveraging their primary drivers.

What Drives You - A, B or C?

Psychology theories identify three core human drivers: Autonomy, Bonding, and Certainty. These primal needs have evolved to help us survive and thrive as a species, influencing our personality preferences.

Stepping Out of The Box - Behavioural Flexibility

We incorporate personality profiling into leadership development to help individuals and teams understand their preferences, read others' preferences, and adapt to situational needs.

Leadership Development Is a Practice...

Our development doesn’t happen overnight, rather it is an ongoing, intentional and, at times, challenging journey that takes practice.

Stages of Development Impact on Our Leadership Effectiveness

A leader's level of consciousness or developmental stage significantly influences an organisation's success. Higher developmental stages enhance a leader's effectiveness, capacity, and ability to handle complexity.

Why Leadership Development Takes More Than a Program...

Our level of adult development determines our level of impact as leaders shaping how we see the world, interact with others, deal with ambiguity and make meaning from our experiences.

February 16, 2024

Grounding by Accessing Our Body Intelligence

Embodiment means living life grounded in bodily experiences, expanding our awareness to the present moment where action is possible, rather than dwelling on the past or future.

February 9, 2024

Grounding by Embracing Our Emotions

Acknowledging emotions in a supportive space frees energy, deepens connections, and reveals the wisdom behind our emotions, teaching us valuable lessons.

January 31, 2024

Grounding by Living Into Our Questions

In today's complex and uncertain world, rushing to certainty can overlook the scale of our challenges. Instead, we can embrace the questions and live our way into the answers.

December 18, 2023

2023 Reflection

Reflecting on 2023, we celebrate leaders who embrace both the beauty and pain, the possibilities and challenges, the promise and burden of leadership, and remember that more unites us than divides us.

November 27, 2023

Mindy Leow's Perspective on Purposeful Leadership

Mindy Leow, Director at B Lab Australia and New Zealand, exemplifies purpose-driven leadership and social impact. Enjoy this short interview where she shares her perspective on purpose in leadership.

November 17, 2023

Purposeful Leadership

We see purpose as a fundamental aspect of leadership; a guiding force that provides direction, alignment, inspiration, and resilience to stay the course. Here we share three practices to stay connected to purpose.

October 26, 2023

Kate Harrap's Perspective on Personal Leadership

Kate Harrap, Head of People and Culture at Baptcare, shares how self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-care have grounded her impactful leadership.

October 19, 2023

Being a Real-World Leader Starts With Leading Self

Movies rarely portray the messy, less glamorous side of real-world leadership. Effective, sustainable leadership requires ongoing self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-care, which we call Personal Leadership.

September 28, 2023

Team Effectiveness

Rohan Charrett's Perspective on Team Effectiveness

Rohan Charrett, GM of Customer Experience at Greater Western Water, inspires with his commitment to team effectiveness. Don't miss this brief interview where he shares his leadership journey and experience.

September 21, 2023

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Exploring Team Effectiveness

For years, we've been fascinated by the magic of truly effective teams. Through our work, we've developed and refined our understanding of the key elements that underpin effective teams and how to build them.

December 22, 2022

2022 Reflection

In 2022, we saw leaders and teams navigate challenges and opportunities with renewed purpose and meaning, fueled by the inner growth sparked by extraordinary times.

December 23, 2021

2021 Reflection

As 2021 ends, we express gratitude to those who joined us this year. As we pause, we invite you to join us in fostering purposeful, conscious, and connected leaders while attending to our individual and collective healing.

October 15, 2020

Intentionally Leading for Resilience

At times, we need deeper connection, self-care, and vulnerable, purposeful conversations. This fosters trust, boosting creativity, experimentation, engagement, and the ability to envision new paths forward.

August 20, 2020

What Is Needed from Leaders at This Time?

Writing from our home offices in Melbourne, Australia, under stage 4 COVID-19 restrictions, we recognise our homes now serve multiple roles. With open hearts and minds, we ask: What is needed from leaders at this time?

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