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Teams365 #3274: Happy Winter Solstice

12/21/2022

It’s the shortest day of the year and I always enjoy using today as a real chance to pause and take stock of where I am at. I hope that you will enjoy today’s reflection questions for the next 6 months of days that are getting longer!

Here are 6 questions to journal on:

As you think about today’s longest day of the year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), what’s top of mind?
What are you proud of accomplishing since the longest day of the year?
What are your core goals for the next 180 days until summer solstice?
What’s the one habit, or activity you would like to undertake that could really move the needle?
What can you do to practice more grace and ease with yourself?

Enjoy the reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

TEams365 #3273: 90 Day Guide for Success in Focus – Day 55 – Collaboration

12/20/2022

Collaboration has been a HUGE theme of 2022, especially with the return to office, and many CEOs eschewing that collaboration can only take place in-person. AS the CEO of an 18 year old virtual business I feel that collaboration can take place ANYWHERE, as long as we are intentional about it. Collaboration doesn’t just happen. It takes time, conversation and INTENTION.

With this in mind, I thought it would be valuable to check out Day 55 of the 90-Day Guide for Success, which focuses on Collaboration. Here’s what I wrote:

Focus Question:
Where can partnering or collaboration support you in creating a better product or delivering a better service?

WHAT?
As a solopreneur, we may hold a myth that “I need to do it all alone.” While you may be choosing to run a solopreneur company, it may not mean that you have to do everything alone. Maybe you are building a team of part-time or full-time workers or are looking to bring different people onboard as subcontractors for specific projects. Regardless, being able to build your team is critical.

The benefit of collaboration is that 1 + 1 = 3. Translation: we are able to create more by working together than by working alone.

At the heart of collaboration are the following behaviors:

Trust
Candor
Connection
Flexibility
Self-awareness
Working across differences
Relationship development

As you grow your team, key themes to explore include:

What do you want to delegate, and to whom? Check out posts on the Teams365 blog on delegation for additional inspiration and information on this topic.
What does grow your team mean? Is it a full-time, part-time, or subcontractor role?
What type of support do you need? Spend time today making a list of everything you need.

SO WHAT?
Just like many other activities in the remote space, it can be important to plan for your collaboration. You will want to set intentional meetings before, during, and afterwards to discuss some of the questions you’ll find in the text box.

As a team we also need to collaborate—with each other and across our team, as well as with others outside of the team.

Consider these questions:

What do we need in order to excel?
What will help us be at our best?
What is going to be the major challenge for the year ahead? The major opportunity?
What development opportunities do we want to build in (retreats, team coaching, mentoring etc.)?
What requests do I need to make of you right now?
How will we measure our success?

And, as a bonus:

What will help to expedite or magnify what’s working?

(EXCERPT: Jennifer Britton, 90-Day Guide for Success, 2021, Pages 326-327, All Rights Reserved).

Enjoy the reflection and the conversations!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3272: Video of the Week: Vision 2023 – AGAIN!

12/19/2022

This week I’m reaching back to the Vision 2023 session I did a few weeks ago. It may not have hit your radar screen a month ago, so I thought it would be useful to connect to it again.

Grab a pen and paper and let’s get started in fleshing out your 2023 VISION –

Enjoy!
Jennifer

BEFORE you leave, please leave a comment and let us now what you enjoyed about this process!

Want to talk a little about it? Join me for a 15 minute 1-1 year end call. You can find it at https://calendly.com/jennbritton.

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3261: The Week in Review

12/18/2022

Welcome back to another Sunday post and the week in review. This week we’ve taken a look at

Saturday – Weekly Journaling Prompt – What do you want to celebrate?

Friday Flashback – Reconnecting Workspaces Challenge Day 3 – 5 Core Areas

Teams on Thursday – Flashback to the Reconnecting Workspaces Challenge – Day 1 – Vision and Intentionality

Wednesday – Teams365 Video: 4 Ways to Build Trust in Your Team

Tuesday – 90 Day Guide for Success in Focus: Styles in Focus – Day 22

Monday – Video of the Week – Our Team Coaching Certification – Join us in 2023!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3270: Weekly Journaling Prompt – What Do You Want to Celebrate?

12/17/2022

As we move into the homestretch of 2022 what is it that you want to celebrate? If you have not yet done so, be sure to take a few minutes to complete your Vision for 2023. You can follow along with my Vision 2023 video if you have 30 minutes to spare. You can view it here –

Let us know what you like about it!

Celebrating is an important part of growth.

Consider these questions:

What were your achievements this year?
What goals did you knock out the park?
What was unexpected?
What did you face head on?
What learning did you have?

Enjoy your reflections and be sure to check out the Vision 2023 post!
Jennifer

Teams365 #3269: Friday Flashback – Reconnecting Workspaces Challenge Day 3 – 5 Core Areas

12/16/2022

This week we’re reaching back to some of the Reconnecting Workspaces Challenge. Here’s a link to Day 3 – 5 Core Areas:

Enjoy the conversation,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3268: Teams on Thursday – Flashback to the Reconnecting Workspaces Challenge – Day 1 – Vision and Intentionality

12/15/2022

In summer 2021 just after the launch of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, I did a five-day challenge around the book.

I thought it would be valuable to reach back to this and check out the series again, starting with Day 1 – Vision and Intentionality. It’s always a good time to start here:

Enjoy the reflection – I’ll link into day 2 tomorrow!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials

Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk - Virtual, Remote and Hybrid Checklist

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon

Teams365 #3267: Teams365 Video- 4 Ways to Build Trust in Your Team

12/14/2022

It’s Wednesday which means that I’m going to dip into another short Teams365 video. If you haven’t checked out this one, be sure to!

Here’s Teams365 #679 in action – 4 Ways to Build Trust in Your Team:

What can you incorporate to build more trust on your team?

Enjoy the reflection!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

Teams365 #3266: 90 Day Guide for Success in Focus: Styles in Focus – Day 22

12/13/2022

One of the areas I continue to explore on a regular basis with teams is that of Work Styles. It is so popular that I have even incorporated it into my latest TEDx Talk – Coaching Teams Through Chaos, as well as created a Quiz around Work Styles in 2021. If you have not yet taken the Hybrid Work Styles Quiz, check it out here:

Work styles are so important for teams because we all have different preferences in terms of how we approach work. This influences our communication, decision making, stressors as well as many other ways we approach work.

Here’s what I share in Day 2 of the 90 Day Guide for Success.

Part of the greatest challenge and opportunity in teams is their diversity. Research continues to show that teams that thrive are well balanced, rather than necessarily being all the same. Today’s complex and uncertain environment requires that we look at things in different ways, leveraging different skill sets and being able to work with, and foster, diverse perspectives.

The HBR article by Alison Reynolds and David Lewis, “The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams,” delves into this topic. Amy Edmondson’s book, with Jean-Francois Harvey, Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, CrossSector Leadership, also feeds into this conversation with teams (and leaders).

Our styles are an inherent part of us. We all have different preferences in terms of how we approach work. This may be shape by our socialization, professional orientation, and simply who we are. Learning more about ourselves and our preferences is key in the remote space, as it can help us understand what we will find easy and what may be challenging. That information can signal tasks which might be better done with support or collaboration, versus things we can do on our own.

A deep well of information and knowledge is available in this area. One framework which has been iterated on is the research done by Marston in which he identified four types of styles—Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S), and Conscientiousness (C). In essence, people vary across two continua: Task versus People, and Fast-Paced versus Moderate-Paced. Our styles influence our decisions, our communication, what we prioritize, and what we find stressful.
Teams and Styles.

When we are part of a team, it’s important to think about how you are showing up.

Consider these questions:
• What are my preferred ways of working?
• Under times of pressure and stress, what gets magnified?
• What is important to communicate to others who are working with me?
• What do I need to consider about the people I work with? Think through what each
person values and needs in a working relationship.
• What’s your style?
Just like a cocktail party, each one of us brings our own unique identity. We have about 8 seconds to
make a first impression. Therefore:
• What’s the impression you want to make?
• How do you want to be remembered?
• How you are being seen?
• Are you the one dressed up with the tails and top hat?
• Are you fashionably late?
• Are you always showing up with a partner, or do you go solo?
• Are you approachable?
• Are you the one looking to close a deal?
• Are you the lone wolf?
• Do you need to reach another shore?
• Are you giving the queen’s wave?
• Are you the silent observer?
• Are you curling up with a good book, or are you ready to engage in deeper discussion, in learning?

Also, a part of the cocktail scene is opening the conversation. What are you going to do to put the other person at ease? What will you say to open the dialogue and exchange? What can you ask to engage? What do you want them to explain?

(Excerpt pages 160 – 161, 90-Day Guide for Success, © Jennifer Britton, 2021. All Rights Reserved)

Enjoy the conversation,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.

Teams365 #3265: Our Team Coaching Certification – Join us in 2023!

12/12/2022

As an organization who has been training those who coach groups and teams since 2006 we are very pleased to be expanding our offerings in 2023. In addition to our flagship program Group Coaching Essentials which I launched in January of 2006, we are now offering a 10 program series for coaches who want to expand their knowledge, skills and practice in the areas of team coaching.
As many of you may be aware, the new Advanced Credential in Team Coaching (ACTC) is now available to all coaches who want to add this to their ICF credential.

Requirements include:

Our Team Coaching Certification is approved for ICF CCEs and we are pleased to offer the following 10 programs providing you with both 70 hours of advanced team coaching training, and 125 hours for those who really want to expand their skill sets.

1. Group Coaching Essentials (8.75 CCEs)
2. Team Coaching Essentials (14 CCEs)
3. Advanced Team and Coaching Practicum (10 CCEs)
4. Coaching Diverse Teams via Coaching the (Hybrid) Work Styles (14 CCEs)
5. Activating Your Team and Group Coaching Superpowers (14 CCEs)
6. Co-Coaching Essentials (10 hours)*
7. Virtual Facilitation Essentials (8.5 CCEs)
8. Reconnecting Workspaces (24 CCEs)
9. Coaching Business Builder: Growing Your Team Coaching Business (15 hours)*
10. Team Coaching Approaches – Experiential Exercises, Learning and Neuroscience (6.75 hours)*

We also have Coaching Supervision available in an individual or group format.
Our winter program dates include the following in either a multi-session date (for those that want to complete learning in 3-6 months) or in more intensive 1 to 1.5 day virtual offerings: Course CCEs

Join us later this week, or next month to start your training!
More information available at GroupCoachingEssentials.ca

Thank you!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326

Check out my TEDx talk

Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.