Coaching intelligent teams

Coaching Intelligent Teams™ICF Team Coaching SIG October, 2015

Marita Fridjhon, MSW, PCC, CPCC, ORSCC Co-Founder and CEO of

Working with your team

Individual potential

Consider a Team with Hotspot(s)

In your current thinking…

What is the nature of the challenge?Who and what has your attention?What is the relationship you see between players and hotspots?Where does YOUR focus go most often when it gets hot?

Researchers have documented the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups’ individual members.

“There is a general effectiveness, a group collective intelligence, which predicts a group’s performance in a lot of situations.”

* MIT Sloan School of Management

Collective Intelligence

• The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.

• Collective intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the group’s individual members.

The existing structures and processes that together form an organization’s operating system need an additional element to address the challenges produced by mounting complexity and rapid change. The solution is a second operating system, devoted to the design and implementation of strategy, that uses an agile, network-like structure and a very different set of processes.

- John Kotter, Harvard Business Review

What is Relationship Systems Intelligence?

EmotionalIntelligence

SocialIntelligence

RelationshipSystems

Intelligence

The capacity to identify, express and skillfully leverage emotions.

The capacity to accurately empathize with another’s

experience and create relationship.

The ability to interpret oneself as an expression of

the system. What happens is not only personal, it also belongs to the system

5 Principles of RSI™

1. Each system forms its own unique entity2. Players within the system are seen and heard as voices for

the system3. A system relies on roles for organizational structure and

effective execution4. The system itself – beyond its members – is naturally

creative, intelligent and generative5. Systems are in a constant state of

emergence, ever evolving towards its next evolutionary stage

Every member of the system is a signal for the system

and a signal of the system.

Reconsider your team with a hotspot…

• Consider nature of the challenge from balcony view• Put your attention on the web of connectivity between

members• Each individual a voice of the system; a signal for the

system• What is different from this vantage point?• What is emerging for the system/or team entity?• What is It asking for/demanding/needing?• If you choose to work from this new awareness, what might

you do differently?

What Becomes Available through RSI?

• Individuals and teams navigate change better; it becomes easier to align with what is trying to happen

• The load is spread; individuals become aware of their interconnectedness

• Enhanced creativity; a deeper awareness of something bigger to be in relationship with as change emerges

• A focal length shift from the ego centric (Me) to We to It (eco-centric)

• Dynamic access to co-responsibility leading to agility and systemic resillience

Gives new meaning to the term:

Resources

http://www.crrglobal.com/rsi-leadership-white-paper.html

Link to a white paper about Leadership and Relationship Systems Intelligence on the home page.

Stay tuned for the release of our new book“Creating Intelligent Teams” available on Amazon and in stores in December 2015