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Teams365 #3254: Who We Are as a Team

12/1/2022

Who we are as a team can be as important as what we do. This is the focus on the relationship and styles part of team development. It’s also part of the TEDx talk I am giving on Team Coaching today. More on that to come!

I thought it would be valuable to reach back to a past post we did on team styles:
What I consider to be one of the most exciting parts of team leadership can also be the most challenging. What this is is the diversity of personalities, and styles that exist on a team.

What is the impact of different styles in your team around:

how people want to be supported,
how conflict is managed,
how you need to adapt your style
preferences for communication (email/text/face to face)
the amount of information people receive when taking on a new task
the amount of supervision people want (daily check-ins versus a more hands-off approach)

So much of this is influenced by our style preferences.

One of the tools I use extensively with leaders and their teams is the Everything DiSC suite of products. Whether I am working with a newly forming team or a team who needs to work more effectively, learning more about our styles and how that intersects with others is invaluable.

What do you notice about your team styles?
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 #3253: Month End Reflection and Month Ahead Planning

11/30/2022

What were my major achievements this month?
What do I want to celebrate?
As I consider my goals (and resolutions) I made at the start of the year, how am I doing with these on a scale of 1-10? Which ones are becoming new habits or something I can check off?
Which ones need to be let go of?
As a leader, what have I noticed about my team this month?
As a leader, what notes should I make about performance issues (if I haven't done it already!)
The thing that has helped me be most productive this month has been ______
The thing that has helped me be most successful this month has been ______
The thing that has helped me be happiest this month has been ________
The thing that has helped me be most healthy has been _______

Wrapping up the year strong:

The one thing I really want to complete this year is…
I want to make sure I have time for….
One carry forward task for the new year will be…
I’m learning that…
Key projects/tasks I started/completed/will continue…
Critical success factors were:
Key relationships I leaned into were:
What I need to carry forward to the next quarter is…
One thing I want to continue doing to ensure my success next year is…

Enjoy!
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 #3252: Clarifying expectations

11/29/2022

Clarifying expectations is critical to success in any workspace. What are you doing to clarify expectations as a team?

Here are some of the expectations I highlighted in an earlier Teams365 blog post:

This week’s Team Building Tip is a “Remote Work Enabler”. Throughout the upcoming weeks I’ll be including a number of special items to keep in mind to help your remote team THRIVE, not just SURVIVE!

The first remote work enabler I wanted to point to was that of expectation. In a remote team, we may be part of multiple matrix relationships, which makes it even more important for us to be clear on our expectations about HOW THINGS ARE DONE.

Teams can benefit from taking time to create a WAYS OF WORKING, or Team Agreements about how they will operate together.

What are the team expectations around?:
·         Showing up for meetings
·         Focus at meetings
·         Being prepared
·         Being punctual
·         Quality of work
·         Surfacing issues
·         Addressing difficult conversations
·         How you interact with each other
·         Share information
·         Connect with others outside of the organization
·         Participate in ongoing learning

Each one of these could spark a conversation around multiple factors.

When expectations are not clear we run the risk of doing things differently, having varied output, and most importantly, creating assumptions that might not be founded. These can have the most detrimental impact in the long run.
As a team, what do expectations do you want to make clear?

Enjoy your 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 #3251: Video in Focus: 2023 Vision Session

11/28/2022

Have you taken time to work on your 2023 vision? Join me for a 30 minute series of reflective prompts to support you in creating your vision in this week’s video of the week!

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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 #3250: Week in Review

11/27/2022

It’s time for this week in review, and a reminder of what we explored this week:

Monday- Revisiting Building Connection

Tuesday- Let’s Gear up for 2023 Work Flow

Wednesday– Video – Revisiting the Team and Group Coaching Superpowers

Thursday– Practicing Gratitude

Friday– Flashback Friday - Fostering Gratitude

Saturday– End of Week Journaling Prompt - What I am Grateful For

Happy Sunday!
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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 #3249: End of Week Journaling Prompt - What I am Grateful For

11/26/2022

This week’s End of Week Journaling Prompt is fittingly “What I am grateful for…”.

This may be the first time you are reflecting on what you are grateful for this week, or perhaps building up the daily practice of spending time noting the 3 Things you are grateful for.

Enjoy your reflections and be sure to check out other End of Week Journaling Prompts as well!

Best,
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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 # 3248: Flashback Friday- Fostering Gratitude

11/25/2022

This week we’re going to dig back into Fostering Gratitude Here’s what I wrote back in 2014 as part of Teams365 #331-

Many readers will be celebrating Thanksgiving today. Even if we aren't it is a great opportunity to pause for a few minutes and think about what we are grateful for. I wanted to share a recent blog post from my group coaching blog for coaches on why gratitude is important. In it I include three practices you can share with your team to foster more gratitude. You can read the blog post here.

Flowing from gratitude are a number of health and psychological benefits which include higher levels of optimism, increased positivity, more pro-social relationships , happier relationships, and also lower levels of toxic thoughts. As you will read, one practice which has been shown to increase gratitude and the benefits is keeping a gratitude journal, which is as simple as writing down on a weekly basis five things you are grateful for that week.

You can read more about what science has found about the importance of gratitude and how to incorporate more of this at this link from the Center for Greater Good from the University of Berkeley.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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 #3247: Practicing Gratitude

11/24/2022

For all our American readers, happy Thanksgiving. As a Canadian I am always appreciative that I get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice a year. Once, at our usual Canadian Thanksgiving, the 2nd Monday of October, ushering in the harvest, and then again with my American colleagues, today.

Today is an opportunity to take down the pace, and practice gratitude. What are you grateful for?

As this article from Harvard Health Publishing writes – “In positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.” (source: Giving thanks can make you happier - Harvard Health)

Today is an invitation to start practicing the 3 Things Exercise, well known in positive psychology quarters as an opportunity to start the daily practice of noting (via journal) three things you are grateful for every day.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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 #3246: Video – Revisiting the Team and Group Coaching Superpowers

11/23/2022

Many of you have enjoyed taking the Team and Group Coaching Superpowers Quiz. If you haven’t, check it out at here.

Last week I dedicated our Tuesday lunchtime call to revisiting the team and group coaching superpowers.

You can find the call here.

Enjoy and be sure to share with us what your superpower is! What are you doing to activate these in your coaching conversations? Note that one of our newest coaching skills training programs which focuses on the PRESENCE or BEING of the coach is our new ACTIVATE Your Team and Group Coaching Superpower training. It’s been approved by ICF for 14 CCEs – including 11 hours of core comeptencies. We’ve got 2 new cohorts starting in the next few weeks – A Friday group meeting on Fridays from 10:15 – 11:40 am ET on December 2nd for 6 weeks (with a holiday break from mid-December to 2nd week of January).

You can find out more here.

Enjoy,
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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 #3245: Let’s Gear up for 2023 Work Flow

11/22/2022

Last year around this time I published a blog post I thought would be valuable to revisit and share again…are you ready to gear up for 2023 work flow? I hope so!

It’s the middle of November and for some, it’s time to start planning for the new year!

Here’s what I shared late last year over at the PlanDoTrack blog about six of the favorite productivity tools included in it:

Monthly Daily Planner - One of my personal favorites, the Monthly daily tracker provides a space for you to regularly review your daily steps towards key goals. There’s space for you to track movement in 11 key areas – pick some personal, pick some business, and track away. You’ll see this one in the title for this week’s post.

Content Tools especially the Daily Content Tracker – The Daily Content tracker provides you with space to note what you have added to your list. Use it to list what you have created and where you are sharing it.

Monthly Content Journal – One Line a Day. Another favorite of mine, I use this in two ways. The One Line a Day gives you space to note one line for every day of the month. I use one to note my key actions for the day and a second one to note one sentence around IDEAS I had. It’s great to go back to and look at over time.

Monthly Content Tracker – While you may not be creating content every day, it’s likely that you will be sharing it. The monthly content tracker can be used to help you create a link to it.

Metaview Annual Goals and Milestones – This page allows you to get a high level overview of all the goals you have ahead of you. Update it as you go, given that annual plans can shift and change, as we’ve seen in recent years.

The Month in Focus – This is an invaluable tool used as a planner and retrospective on your week. Use it on a weekly basis to track your key priorities, successes, enablers, de-railers, lessons learned and what you will do or focus on next week.

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Now is the time to pick up a copy of your new copy of one of my two planner workbooks. Pick up a copy of either PlanDoTrack (for Virtual and Remote Professionals) or Coaching Business Builder (for Coaches).
Pick up a copy of either one of the Planners in digital format now at our Potentials Realized site. Note they are not available as a digital edition anywhere else (at least at the moment).

Pick up a digital copy of PlanDoTrack at PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner - PDF Version (potentialsrealized.com) - $29 US

Pick up a digital copy of Coaching Business Builder at Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner (potentialsrealized.com) - $29 US

Enjoy your planning and I hope you will join me for an upcoming program!
Jennifer

Coaches, join us this month for one of our Tuesday at 12 noon ET community calls.

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.