Heart & Results Blog
Over 25 years of transforming teams through a simultaneous focus on heart (the human dimension) and results (the performance dimension) for sustained impact.
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Here, we share free resources on team development and team coaching, as well as news and updates from Corentus.
Courtney Salati & Jerry Toomer on a Team’s Journey, Collaboration & Cohesion
Access the slide deck, Zoom recording, and additional resources of the First Friday from June 2, 2023 on A Team’s Journey, Collaboration & Cohesion.
Ashish Kothari on The Ripple Effect
Access the slide deck and Zoom recording of the First Friday from April 7, 2023 on The Ripple Effect.
Alexander Caillet & Janice Caillet on a Team’s Common Purpose & Shared Goals
Access the slide deck and Zoom recording of the First Friday from March 3, 2023 on A Team’s Common Purpose & Shared Goals.
Understanding Team Development Practices
After reading the results of the Finance division’s portion of the company’s annual employee survey, Renata – CFO of the organization and head of this division – knows she needs to call in an external professional to work with her Senior Leadership Team.
The Thinking Path
The CEO of a bottling company toured a plant whose employees were demoralized. The tour proved extremely successful, and the CEO’s approval of what he saw generated a visible lift of mood. Once the CEO had departed, the plant manager addressed the employees: “The boss really liked what he saw. He said it was the best he had ever seen. But why did you have the order of the products reversed in the coolers? It was embarrassing!” The employees’ mood instantly slumped.
Resilience Through Coherence Practice
During the summer of 2020, people around the world in four 30-minute calls where we shared what we hoped would give people a way to ease the stress and connect with like-hearted people around the planet. We did not record these sessions however we are sharing the slides from these calls that include our well-known Resilience through Coherence Practice called the 4-Step Method.
Thoughtful Changes To The Corentus Team Wheel
Over the past 20+ years, we’ve worked from a foundation of three complementary team frameworks. These frameworks provide a foundation for the majority of our work with teams including the basis for a wide range of practical tools we use every day with our clients. From time to time, we improve upon these frameworks in order to obtain the greatest impact on our clients.
Team Leadership Model
Effective leadership in today’s world requires leaders to adapt to complexity and change all while leading others in various states of teaming to accomplish results and have an impact within their organizations. We’ve found that leaders who understand the dimensions of teaming and are attuned to the ecosystem of their organization are better positioned to create the conditions for effective teaming.
Corentus Featured on MassTLC
The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) featured two articles by Corentus Chief Knowledge Officer, Amy Yeager:
6 Tips for Establishing Effective Team Norms
Both implicit and explicit norms can have a strong impact on the experience of being on a team, as well as on how that team performs. To manage team norms effectively, try following these tips.
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How Team Leaders Can Transform Complaints into Opportunities
Once we recognize what’s actually going on beneath complaints, we gain the power to understand them, respond to them constructively, and even use them to reveal new opportunities for ourselves and our teams.
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How Teams Can Break Out of Unproductive Behaviors
What can team coaches use to observe teams? What can teams use to observe themselves? Watch Alexander Caillet explain O-P-N (Outcomes, Patterns, Norms) -- a powerful Corentus framework -- used to help teams shift, for example, being late to meetings.
What's Happening When a "Soft" Approach Fails?
If you’ve felt discouraged or disillusioned by subpar results from “soft” approaches, it’s time to reevaluate.
Team Leader vs. Team Leadership
Who leads within your team? Sometimes teams focus heavily on the team leader, but give little attention to the leadership capabilities that can exist across all team members—enabling greater self-regulation and autonomy.
Helping Teams Stay Out of the Weeds
Does your executive team spend too much time in Operational and Tactical work (the weeds) instead of Strategic and Visionary work?
Relationship Issues in Teams (6:10)
What types of relationship issues limit teams—and individual team members—from performing at their best? How can teams address these issues for the benefit of all?
Coaching Teams in Real Time with a Focus on Both Heart & Results (1:09:25)
In this episode Alexander Caillet communicates with enormous clarity & passion his approach to team coaching, the power of this methodology and the gift it can afford teams and organisations especially in answer to our VUCA world. Alexander describes the company’s approach to team interventions, the models he deploys and the role of the team coach. He shares many vignettes to illuminate the power of team coaching and how by way of this work the teams work is sustainable.
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Getting Real Work Done in Teams (3:32)
What are the six main types of work that can be done in a meeting? What does your team do? Is that effective?
Where to Start and Outcomes of 'Live Team Coaching' (6:06)
Ever wonder where to start for a team coaching engagement? Amy Yeager and Alexander Caillet from Corentus and our friends at vivovii share where to start and how to engage in a team coaching engagement.