The challenge:

Your organisation system has implicitly optimised over many years or even decades to deliver the performance you have today. Something needs to change if this performance is no longer adequate in the new business landscape, and change will not happen without intentionality of developing teamwork relationships and new ‘systemic’ leadership competencies.  

Organisations are new to ‘systemic leadership’ or ‘systems-inspired leadership’. Often, the work is still organised as a production process, organising tasks and missing out on the creative engagement of the people. The leaders would like people to take more initiative, but people are effectively disincentivised to do so, and often disengaged too.

Most leaders are at a loss working with the intangibles of teamwork relationships and tend to turn to consultancies to redefine business processes and other RACI matrices to formalise the connections. The challenges are much more complex than this, and we can help you design purposeful programmes to drive intentionality in the teamwork relationships, as well as specific ‘systemic leadership’ development.

Henko's differentiated approach:

Our approach is systemic first and by default: 

• Systemic, as in mapping an understanding of how the teams are in relationship to support business outcomes,

• Systemic, as in working with teams at all levels. Operational teams, leadership teams, temporary squads, governance teams, etc. Teams are the unit of the organisation, and we look to persist and nurture them,

• Systemic, as in working with leaders to detach from hands-on coordination of the work and stimulate the system to organise collaboratively. 

From those perspectives, we co-design an approach with you, whether we work with one team, a few leaders, or the whole organisation. The interventions are generally multifaceted and include a tailored mix to your needs:

• Team coaching, potentially following themed programmes such as working through conflict, proactively addressing team dysfunctions, easing up change, etc.,

• System coaching, coaching the inter-team relationships with cross-functional teams that need to be in collaboration,

• Leadership team coaching to organise the collaboration of the team of teams,

• ‘Systemic leadership’ development programmes,

• Other activities to stimulate collaboration in context,

• Reviewing and adjusting your existing HR leadership programmes with systemic perspectives,

• Etc.

We help you define and deliver the programmes and increments. We also make you benefit from our Platform for Continuous Change offering the convenience of booking meetings and progressing through the schedule of activities.

Expected outcomes: 

If you wonder about the expected benefits of such work, consider the time wasted in unproductive meetings, the number of people who are not fully engaged, and, ultimately, the cost of misalignment. The coaching of keeping your organisation intentionally engaged in collaboration is considerably cheaper than the waste of not doing so.

In this work, we will share our extensive experience building high-performing teams, gained from thirty years of working in tech, where teams are the norm. We also hold formal qualifications in systems and team coaching to match theory and practice. 

From our interventions, you can expect: 

• Healthy teams with strong engagement, initiative, and performance, 

• Increased engagement and accountability of team members, 

• Mutual accountability, skilful exploration of different perspectives in support of progress, instead of avoidance of conflict, 

• Enhanced meaningful collaboration in the teams and across teams, 

• Clarity of relationships and roles in the team and matrixed relationships, 

• Alignment to upholding excellence and realising the strategic directions, focusing on business outcomes, 

• Change in leadership style from coordinating the execution to setting the context for the work, and most importantly business-value, to flow through the system, 

• Less fire-fighting and regained time for enabling meaningful breakthroughs for the business. 

Your next steps:

We invite you to inquire to set an inclusive programme mixing leadership, team and system coaching. We would co-design a programme to your need and help you mobilise and run it from our Platform for Continuous Change.

We are also suggesting below various specific programmes for teams are leaders. Those can be very much deployed as turn-key engagements though, they require an initial discussion to establish them. Please inquire.