Ramping up, getting ahead and staying ahead – exactly what’s needed, right now.

Imagine what you will achieve when all your team members are on message, pointing in the same direction, working together and strategically moving forwards. 

This is rare and, if it’s your team, you can jump off here as there is no need to read further.

It’s more normal for leadership team members to be working in silos, handling their own departmental problems and coming together infrequently and reluctantly to discuss the numbers, trends and business-threatening problems.

It’s a constant challenge for you, the leader, pulling your heads of department together; it feels like herding kittens at a zebra crossing.

If you relate to this, Live Action Coaching will be useful. It’s a light-duty though powerful and far reaching intervention.

What’s involved …

We meet three times on Zoom, each for one hour – you the leader, your team members and me, the coach.

The team pre-identifies its top three priorities. Then in each Zoom the team works on establishing and delivering an outcome for one of the priorities.

As coach, I notice and reflect back how the team members work together – the dynamic in the room.

Here’s an example: “You are all looking downwards”. When people become aware of that, they look up at the camera and the whole dynamic changes – they become present and engaged with each other.

One client said, “I want a coach so I can see myself in action – someone who can observe what I can’t”.

Navigating stormy seas while rebuilding the ship

The purpose of Live Action Coaching is twofold.

First, the team makes progress on their top priorities, which is working “in” the team.

Second, the team refines how the members work together, which is working “on” the team.

This all happens live.

Leading a team successfully is like navigating stormy seas (working “in” the team) while at the same time rebuilding the ship (working “on” the team).

Dynamic, dramatic, easy and now!

Across the three Zoom meetings the team shifts in their progression and effectiveness.

Members gain skills and approaches they can use in all their meetings so the impact is wide reaching, dynamic and dramatic.

Live Action Coaching happens on Zoom, so there is no travel time. Distance is guaranteed, face to face communication is enhanced (yes, enhanced), and team development is accelerated.

Made more effective, the team can then accelerate how they evolve and adapt to their fast-changing situation.

This is the only way to regain control in the volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world in which we now operate.

Live Action Coaching is particularly relevant now, as businesses return to work and projects ramp up.

If you as a leadership team are not growing as a team faster than your business or project is ramping up, you will always be playing catch up.

Live Action Coaching works for leadership teams – here and now.

We are working hard in different directions, so what’s needed?

Right now, your team members are working hard, moving at best in slightly different directions or, at worst, in completely different directions against each other.

Live Action Coaching will get the team moving in the same direction, creating a multiplier impact on its progress.

Also, because collectively you are the leaders, it creates a multiplier impact throughout your organisation.

This is exactly what is needed, right now.