Vertical Team Development

Harthill has refined a specific vertical developmental approach to working with teams and continues inquiring into and building this body of work.

There is a strong element of considering the Action Logics that are most present in the team system and working with that collective intelligence. However, team Developmental Inquiry is more than just profiling the individuals and aggregating a collective profile with a shared set of individual developmental activities. There are many aspects to be carefully balanced so that everyone in the team constellation is valued and developed equally and differently, that their individual development is supported by the team activities. So, there is a blend of developmental activities that make sense to the whole.

Team Development Inquiry

Harthill's vertical Team Developmental Inquiry will bring huge benefits over time -

• developed and growing sense of shared identity and a unifying purpose with a clear sense of inclusivity
• systemic embracing of complexity, ambiguity, unpredictability and paradox
• ability to surface and nurture talents much more broadly and flexibly
• applying talented "teaming" to emerging situations
• inclusive practices developed within teams for its own members and beyond
• enabling of Agile practices and other approaches to organisational effectiveness.

Harthill Team Coaching 

Team Developmental Inquiry actively supports the work of the team, the development of its members and the success of the organisation more widely. There are several aspects to this -

• team identity and life cycle, which will be different from and in synch with the developmental cycle of individuals
• psychological safety and its impact on developmental practices and purpose
• working with emergent relational dynamics and learning to dance with them
• mapping the Action Logics of its members playing out in the dance of "teaming"
• individual profiles in the team fitting within the whole - working with ego needs
• how status and power show up and are relevant in the hierarchies of the system
• how this maps with Agile and other approaches to organisational process
• exploring diversity and inclusion - impact on team development and organisational contribution
• forming a developing ecosystem and how this is organically absorbed into the larger system as the team re-shapes

Active Developmental Teaming

Active 'Teaming' 

Harthill sees teaming as a vital activity that happens within systems, where individuals gather and form around particular elements of the purpose of the organisation. There is an ebb and flow to this, - a kind of forming and re-forming. The developmental work must serve that flow, as well as the development of the Action Logics of the individuals. In this way, the development of all - the team, the individuals and the organisational purpose - are in alignment.

 

Harthill works with teams in Inquiry-based Experimentation, exploring and developing narratives, supporting developmental activities, developing the capacities and capabilities that support the organisation.

Our Team coaches will facilitate the whole team process and development, dealing with systemic blocks, such as protocols and processes, that get in the way, embracing collective sensemaking and managing the myriad complexities and polarities that are present - and shift - in the system.