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Soji’s Approach to Team Coaching
Soji Learning and Change provides customised team coaching to enhance collaboration, strengthen team skills, and build shared impact. Their approach focuses on helping teams reflect and improve themselves. Let’s explore what team coaching is, how Soji makes it work, and the benefits it can bring to teams.
Who is Involved in Codesign?
Codesign, a collaborative approach to problem-solving, places people at the heart of the process, integrating diverse perspectives to tackle complex issues. But who exactly is involved, and how do their roles contribute to the success of codesign?
Composure and Resilience
Composure and resilience enable leaders to navigate challenges, make sound decisions, and inspire their teams. This article explores the concepts of composure and resilience, their importance in leadership, and practical strategies to develop these qualities.
Uncover a leadership vision
A leadership vision is a foundational element that helps organisations navigate complexity with clarity and purpose. By embracing a reflective and adaptive approach, leaders can develop and nurture a vision that inspires innovation, resilience, and sustained success.
Trust and Credibility
Trust and credibility are crucial in leadership for building successful relationships, teams, and organisations.
Working with Personal Values in Developing a Leadership Perspective
Integrating personal values into leadership development creates a strong foundation for authentic and effective leadership.
The Power of Systems Thinking in Collaborative Design
Use Systems Mapping to unlock a deeper understanding of systems, uncovering insights to drive meaningful change and innovation.
Group Facilitation Toolkit
Facilitators can navigate the complexities of group dynamics with finesse by employing the facilitation toolkit across these three essential sections—Engage, Design, and Facilitate.
Improve Feedback Conversations
Feedback is essential for personal and professional development. In this blog post, we'll delve into the intricacies of giving and receiving feedback effectively, exploring how it can foster trust, transparency, and personal accountability in any environment.
Foster Shared Accountability
Leaders can foster a culture of shared accountability by empowering their teams to take ownership of their work and work towards common goals.
Making Complex Decisions
Leaders often face complex and multifaceted decisions. The Cynefin Framework, empowers leaders with a structured approach to understanding these challenges and making informed decisions.
Change Leadership Practices
Explore five stances a leader can take to accelerate change adoption.
Design Mindsets | Think Like a Designer
This clip introduces six Design Mindsets and explains how you can use each one to spark collaborative approaches to complex challenges.
Collaborative Design | An Overview
In this clip you'll learn what co-design is, who can be involved, and how to structure a co-design initiative for best results.
Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Building Trust and Collaboration
For leaders, cultivating psychological safety is not just a noble aspiration but a strategic imperative. Teams that feel psychologically safe are more engaged, resilient, and adaptable, resulting in better problem-solving, higher job satisfaction, and superior performance.
Aligning for a Common Goal: Harnessing the Power of Shared Purpose
Establishing a Collective Endeavour offers a transformative approach to leadership and collaboration. Fostering purposeful dialogue and alignment enables individuals and organisations to achieve excellent outcomes.
Creating Effective Shared Team Routines: A Practical Guide
Successful teams rely on more than just individual brilliance. They need shared routines—coordinated habits and practices that enhance collaboration, productivity, and team performance.
Defining Expectations and Shaping Accountability: Keys to Effective Leadership
Defining expectations and shaping accountability is essential for leaders. Experiment with these strategies to create a culture of clarity, collaboration, and preparedness within your teams.
Five Disciplines of Successful Teams: Navigating the Art of Collaboration
Dr Hawkins' Five Disciplines empower teams to align, execute, collaborate, expand, and evolve. So let's take a look at these disciplines and how you might bring them to life.
Exploring LEGO Serious Play: A Fresh Approach to Strategic Planning
In the realm of strategic planning, traditional methods often leave teams feeling uninspired and stuck in a rut. But what if there was a way to inject creativity and collaboration into the process?
Elevate Wellbeing and Satisfaction
Martin Seligman offers five domains to help us enhance our wellbeing and satisfaction, let's dive into them.
Apply Deliberate Practice
Understanding Deliberate Practice is vital to honing skills effectively.
Build Personal Change Readiness
Initiating change requires understanding human behaviour.
Nurture Growth Mindset
Embrace challenges, learn from mistakes, and cultivate positive self-talk to unleash your growth potential.
Empathy Mapping
Consolidate insights and build empathy for those involved in change design.
Standalone Posters
Distill an idea into a clear and concise concept for prototyping using a standalone visual.
Experience Mapping
Visualise the stakeholder experience to distil your design focus.
Like, Wish and Wonder
Use the Like, Wish and Wonder feedback scaffold to gather comments and questions in an easy to analyse format.
Surface Assumptions
Consciously surface assumptions about design feasibility, viability and desirability.
Crazy Eights
Generate 8 quick sketches in 8 minutes to promote creative, novel and divergent thinking.
Napkin Sketches
Quickly sketch ideas on napkins to visually communicate concepts and allow for iteration.
‘How Might We’ Problem Statements
Encourage collaborative, creative, action-oriented idea generation with 'how might we' statements.
Discovery Interviews
Use discovery interviews to gather insights and build empathy for those involved in change design.
Context Mapping
Visualise the bigger picture and surface critical insights with collaborative context mapping.
Design Principles
Here's some things to consider when facilitating a session to help a group agree on a set of collaborative design principles.
Collaborative Design Toolkit
Here's an overview of what collaborative design is and how leaders can use the double diamond approach to put people at the centre of their change initiatives.
Story-sharing for change
We’ve been helping leaders source, shape and share stories that illustrate key messages associated with organisational change for over a decade, it is a big part of our Sketch Speak work. Here's an overview of what leadership story-sharing is, why it is helpful and some tips on where to start.
Like a River, Craft Your Path: Appreciative Coaching Resource
Use our Appreciative Coaching toolkit to harness your strengths, focus your attention and craft a path to your most important goals.
Creating a culture of organisational learning
As leaders, we are dealing with increasingly complex environments. Here are five disciplines of thinking and interaction that can help us learn to see the world in new ways and apply our insights to make sustainable positive change.
How to create more value from your personal development investment
Whether you are working through a formal program or using more flexible self-paced approaches, it is easy to sink a lot of time and energy into learning. So here are five things you could be doing to make sure you get good value out of your personal development choices.
Six Mindsets to guide your Collaborative Design Process
At Soji, human-centred design principles guide how we work with our clients. Over the years, we've found that certain ways of thinking can profoundly impact the quality of outcomes we achieve when collaborating on designs. Click here to read more about the mindset that support our work.
Supporting Bravehearts
In 2021 we forged a corporate partnership with Bravehearts to support the important work they do.
Music as Metaphor
What can we learn about personal growth, creative collaboration and outstanding performance from the world of music?
Elevate Remote Wellbeing series – 05/ Maintain Health
Be a role model for vitality. Look after your health and energy while creating a team culture that supports healthy living.
Elevate Remote Wellbeing series – 04/ Celebrate Success
Working remotely, there are less opportunities for unplanned conversations. Those “little moments” where we recognise people’s contributions, organically.
Elevate Remote Wellbeing series – 03/ Encourage Balance
To find balance when working remotely, we need to be deliberate – to plan when we’ll do chores, parent, play, rest, and work.
Elevate Remote Wellbeing series – 02/ Foster Inclusion
Our work benefits when we connect people with diverse backgrounds and views.
Elevate Remote Wellbeing series – 01/ Focus Attention
We need to know where we’re going and why.
Elevate Remote Wellbeing series – Intro
How can we create a balanced, healthy and sustainable approach to remote team working?
Virtual Working Series – 07/ Improve Meetings
Staying connected, while working virtually is so important. Remote meetings give us a chance to improve our efficiency and get stuff done, while also strengthening our relationship with others.
Virtual Working Series – 06/ Keep Commitments
When working remotely it is important be consistent and follow through on promises. Make it clear that others can trust that you will deliver.
Virtual Working Series – 05/ Elevate Wellbeing
Are you staring at a screen, flicking between half completed work tasks and a minute by minute avalanche of anxiety provoking news?
Virtual Working Series – 04/ Embed Tools
Suddenly, it seems that we all need to be technical experts just to do our job.
Virtual Working Series – 03/ Create Routines
When things feel uncertain how do you spend your time?
Virtual Working Series – 02/ Focus Attention
What can you do to focus attention when working at home?
Virtual Working Series – 01/ Find a Place
What can you do to make working from home, work?
Get from A to B quicker using visual storytelling
Sketch Speak is a visual storytelling system that helps clarify a vision, align a team or build momentum around a change.
Coaching for change
Coaching supports individual growth and transformation in a tangible way as each session focuses on specific goals or challenges.
What we practice we get better at
Many of us are redesigning our work practices at the moment and routines can be the key to unlock potential and performance. What routines can you embed into your work or team? We hope that the below thought starters can support a discussion for you with your team.
Strong Virtual Team Leadership
Here’s the top level of our Virtual Leadership framework. We use it to organise our content and learning design. It is proving a good prompt for us and our clients.
Soji’s Virtual Offering
We are adapting to make sure we're in great shape to support when you are ready to reconnect. Over the next few weeks, we'll be focussing our full attention to building on our capability and service offering in some very specific ways.
Tips for Running Virtual Meetings
At Soji we have run webinars and virtual learning events for the last ten years, I thought it might be useful if I could share some tips for anyone new to this format.
Rest, Recharge and Refocus
At this time of year Jarrod and I like to reflect on the past 12 months and draw into focus what we want for the coming year. 2017 was great for Soji. We are grateful that we had the opportunity to deliver some fantastic projects which we loved including:
Building Innovation
Creating a culture of everyday change For some organisations innovation is simply ‘business as usual’. They constantly change and adapt their practices to create a better future for their staff and customers.
Learning Organisation
5 things to consider to make learning work Over the years we’ve experimented with a stack of interesting learning formats and experiences all aimed at finding that prized combination of curious engagement and meaningful adaptation with our learners. We’ve had plenty of successes and our fair share of near misses as well.
Key Conversations
Skilful dialogue around the issues that matter most Dysfunctional interactions not only have a negative effect on the people involved but over time they can set the scene for a toxic organisational culture. Every manager needs a way to negotiate these moments of truth effectively. This post looks at how we can engage in key conversations to solve problems, influence results and enhance relationships along the way.