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.
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?
Panel Podcast with Tara Nolan
Episode 1 will speak to our current situation and the challenges teams are facing through Covid-19. Tara will interview Dr Krister Lowe, Dr Melissa Hughes and Alexander Caillet as her guests for this episode.
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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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Conversation with Tara Nolan and Alexander Caillet (44:50)
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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Team Coaching – Coaching Teams to Self-Regulation (56:43)
Listen to a fun and at times funny podcast hosted by Christopher McAuliffe with guest Alexander Caillet. A great understanding of what it takes to be a team coach along with light/fun exchanges.
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"Team Coaching: The Art and Science" (1:10:06)
IOC Conference
Alexander Caillet, Amy Yeager and additional Corentus Colleagues at the IOC (Institute of Coaching) Conference in Boston. We shared with the audience an overview of Corentus team coaching. We also had some fun by asking the audience to try their skill at team coaching by watching a live role play and identifying what they ‘sensed’ or observed in the team.
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.
Elusive High Performance (8:07)
High performance for a team 100% of the time isn’t realistic. What causes the shifts in performance?