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A Conversation with Janet M. Harvey, MCC
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61 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2020
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Janet M. Harvey, MCC, is a visionary, writer, speaker and coach. She is an early adopter of a coach centred approach in the workplace. Janet works with global organisations and teams of Leaders to establish a generative, resilient and high performing culture. Janet Harvey brings her executive and entrepreneurial experience as CEO of InviteChange, Leaders in sustainable excellence through a signature generative coaching and learning process, The Generative Wholeness Way. As an ICF Master Certified Coach, Certified Mentor Coach, Accredited Coach Supervisor and ICF Global past president customers and audiences around the globe speak of Janet as a bold curious, provocative and compassionate Leader. *Exclusively for listeners, you can download a sample chapter of Janet's new book, Invite Change, from the Game of Teams website, right here Podcast episode summary: In this episode Janet illuminates the potency of Team Coaching for teams. She shares her wisdom in creating the groundwork for teams to deepen the learning with each other before they dive into action. Often teams and organisations get seduced by the task of things & the reactive nature of daily requests but forget to focus on the day to day experience of teaming, understanding the work they have been authored to do and take responsibility for and of being together. Team agreements are an essential component of a team’s success. By missing this vital consideration teams often fall into politics and drama and get stuck. In addition ,Janet discusses the role of a team coach, the role of a sponsor with their team and the work it takes to help teams become self-sustaining. Every sentence Janet speaks is loaded with juicy questions and thought-provoking ideas. As a Leader or Coach, I dare you not to listen. Points made through the episode: Coaching and Team Coaching is not a “job” for Janet but an opportunity to live her bliss everyday In her early career working with a large financial institution Charles Schwab Janet first experienced what it meant to team across a whole organisation She impresses that we often lose sight of the brilliance of our team colleagues -we must see our team members as more than the moment we are in and ask instead how is the climate that has been created contributing to the inability for a team member to show up? Creating the climate for people to shine is the Leaders job. Important to figure out what is in the “collective field” of a team, perhaps keeping its team members from full authorship Team members are rarely asked or get to declare how they wish to contribute and what their value is to the team’s endeavour. There are several important steps in a team engagement. In fact a number of steps that in Janet’s words comprise the anatomy of a team engagement. Consider the Sponsor relationship – as a coach ask what the meaningful work is that the team is here to accomplish? Dialogue with the Sponsor about their role, what they have granted authority to the team. Understand what they are examining is the evidence that the team is performing. Consider too how the team is being resourced and supported. Then there is the important same engagement with each member of the team to understand their understanding of their remit. How do the team members negotiate for their work with the sponsor and the system for what they need? Important for coach to not over work but to allow the team to reveal itself to itself Janet employs a process at InviteChange when working with teams that she calls Team Sovereignty -It ask 4 seemingly simple questions What brought you here? What is the team expected to deliver? What agreements are necessary for you to accept responsibility? How would you like to approach delivering the expectation while honouring the agreements made between us? Janet explored an experience I had with a team around the first question and suggested as a coach I had missed the opportunity to coach a team member. I could have asked in the vigne
Released:
Dec 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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