Organisational coaching
WAVES WE CAN MAKE TOGETHER
Organisational coaching in collective wisdom and shared leadership
Organisational structure
Facilitating shared leadership
By clarifying and then activating the organisational structure, we install a culture of shared leadership, trust and broad cooperation. When we are guided by the principles and processes of Sociocracy 3.0, a fluid, self-managing governance model emerges. Collaborating within a structure in which information and influence can flow freely, in which freedoms and boundaries are clear and dependencies are addressed, makes it possible to take ownership in a safe manner. At the same time, we invite a culture in which everyone feels involved and in which collective wisdom is fully utilised.
“‘Over a year, Dette assisted Namahn in reshaping its governance towards sociocracy. By being both insightful and caring, she gained the trust of all stakeholders. Today, our governance is better than ever, and we are running it by ourselves.’ ”
Organisational culture
Aligned and constructive collaboration
To keep things flowing above and below the waterline, we learn how to navigate tensions effectively, speak the language of needs and deal with conflicts constructively. Nonviolent communication increases our emotional maturity and empathy for the different perspectives and protection strategies that people use. Working with self-managing principles means building a common culture. We create support for our goals, design frameworks for collaboration, and grow in shared understanding, awareness, and trust. Because utilising the wisdom of the group and hearing all voices requires psychological safety.
“‘Many thanks for everything. It was a perfect team building event, with lots of engagement, active contribution, and positive feedback from colleagues. The program was an excellent fit, with a good flow and vibe, and we have quite a number of takeaways to build on.”
Personal leaderschip
Personal self-management and emotional maturity
First and foremost, we lead ourselves. We need to fully embrace our personal leadership, regulate our emotions and draw on our own wisdom. This allows the dance between leading and following, power and vulnerability to flow smoothly and enables us to masterfully utilise our personal and collective wisdom. We promote awareness and self-reflection through methods that enable you to manage yourself even better. This allows you to become secure and highly constructive, learn to deal with your inner voices and saboteurs, and become aware of the energies you bring and live. This enables us to work together in a disarming, unburdened and bold manner.
““Surprisingly simple, quickly leading to enlightening insights, fascinating to revisit and work with time and again.””
Corporate Rituals
Connecting your tribe around your organisational goals
Organisational rituals are a wonderful cultural tool for inspiring each other and stimulating conscious collaboration. Rituals bring ideas to life, spark visions and awaken inner fire. They convey the vision, mark important moments of transition, help to process events, honour the past and step into the future with strength. They create connection, meaning and anchoring of values and mission. In this way, rituals create space for transformation and creative power in collective contexts. Rituals are particularly meaningful in organisations, where we find it difficult to be fully present and where we need humanity and mutual trust.
“‘A truly innovative practice. We are definitely open to doing more with this in the future. ‘Thank you all, it was a rich experience! The first stone has been laid... and in my opinion, the most important stone... because the concept of the ritual has been accepted within the FPS in all its branches...’
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POSSIBLE WAVES
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Together, we design a programme based on shared ownership and leadership, using sociocratic principles like equality and consent. We map out an organisational structure that makes shared leadership happen and do what's needed to kickstart a self-managing culture where collective wisdom flows and we work together effectively and connectively, navigating through any tensions.
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We learn how to collaborate, meet, decide, evaluate and co-create more effectively. We discover valuable group processes that invite collective wisdom and stimulate shared leadership and ownership. Attention is paid to psychological safety, personal leadership, connecting communication and facilitation skills, so that you can do it yourself in the long term.
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How do we connect more deeply with each other? How can we strengthen our collaboration? In a varied and accessible way, we go through interactive processes in which every perspective counts. This provides refreshing breakthroughs on current themes and brings fresh air and energy to the collaboration. Together, we design a day or multi-day programme with the right dose of yin and yang, in which we look above and below the waterline, full of dynamic exercises based on frameworks that invite collective wisdom, possibly supplemented with beautiful ritual practices, translated to your workplace.
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Together, we shape a fitting ritual, based on your purpose, stories, symbolism and history. We create space to acknowledge what is there, to honour the old and embrace the new, through powerful symbols, silence and connection. Designing a ritual is a co-creation. The more we tap into our creative abilities, the more impressive the result. Rituals heal, mark, deepen relationships and transform. They connect us to the purpose of the organisation and the greater whole.
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As a project leader, facilitator or manager, it is important to stay in control of the change and development you desire. It helps to have an experienced organisational coach at your side. A sounding board to test ideas, discuss challenges and strategies, reflect and gain insight into important organisational issues. Together, we look at the challenges and needs that exist. I then suggest approaches and processes that can help. If necessary, we agree on a rhythm that we can reconfirm at regular intervals.
Making Waves organisational coach, facilitator and trainer: Dette van Zeeland
THE GUIDANCE
As a coach, I adopt the attitude of a neutral, unbiased facilitator, coach and trainer who, sometimes with tough love, appeals to the wisdom present. Who, based on equality, offers suggestions and insights and is open to input. I create a safe space in which everyone can speak openly and all perspectives are listened to without judgement.
The workshops, training courses and programmes are created through co-creation. By listening to what arises in the present moment, there is always the possibility to adjust and utilise new insights in consultation with each other. The goal is to achieve as much impact and effect as possible with what we do in the time we have together.
There are a number of fixed ingredients that are a natural part of every coaching programme. Raising awareness of basic principles and attitudes around equality and psychological safety, navigating tensions, communicating in a connecting way and working with consent.
I work with experiential methods. Learning by doing, while you do it. An important principle is Meet them where they are. Change and learning take effort. That is why it helps if we consider what we do as experiments and invitations that we evaluate and compare with previous ways of working or acting.
Every design, from a short intervision or facilitation to a workshop or longer training course, receives my full attention and care. I monitor the emotional flow and the alternation between individual work and group dynamics, interaction and inspiration.