Teams & Relationships

“We know that conflict involves emotions. In many ways, it is all about emotions. How leaders and members control their team’s emotional climate can make the difference between successfully using task conflict or experiencing the downsides of relationship conflict.” - from ‘Building Conflict Competent Teams’ by Runde and Flanagan

John specializes in helping to coach and train Emotionally Intelligent Teams and Relationships.

He is uniquely qualified to do so.  Why? 

John is a Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC).  As of April, 2009, he is one of only 60 people Worldwide with this designation. He is also one of the premiere coaches in Emotional Intelligence.

As a result, he brings this expertise to his work with Teams and Relationships.  John specializes in helping turn conflict into opportunity. 

By doing this, teams are more successful and want to stay together to keep achieving first class results. In this way and in this challenging economy, the best and brightest are retained to keep the bottom line growing in the black.

Relationships learn how to achieve together through constructive interaction that works through differences rather than destructive conflict that demeans character and damages the relationship.

Team Coaching for Sustainable Success:

Successful teams operate as a greater entity than simply the individuals that comprise it.  On The Threshold works with teams to understand this concept and operate in a way that embodies this and the result is that it empowers the team to accomplish its goals and in a way that they can reproduce.  These are the kinds of teams that people want to be part of and to stay on, creating win/win/win scenarios for all concerned, right up to the Organizational level.

  As a result of this comprehensive and supported approach, this is much more than a one-off training or team building session. Training teams in a Systems Coaching process with Emotional Intelligence training will help to create:

As Steven M.R. Covey points out in ‘The Speed of Trust’, there is a big impact economically based on the level of relationship and team trust:

When trust goes ⇓, speed goes ⇓ and cost goes ⇑.  

Conversely, when trust goes ⇑, speed goes ⇑ and cost goes ⇓

One of the keys to creating what we call “Emotionally Intelligent Teams” is to design and assess the team.  If it is a new team, creating ‘Team Contracts and Agreements’ help set the stage for how the team wants to operate.  For existing teams, a team assessment is employed, which is like an MRI of the team.  This helps the members understand where they are now, what is working, what they want to change and the direction they want to be heading in.  Team Coaching, in conjunction with a team assessment, is the most effective approach to achieve sustainable productivity.  On The Threshold offers two team assessments, offering the team a further chance to refine and target their goals.  Between the Leadership Circle Culture Survey™ and the Team Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TDA) ™ , teams are offered innovative approaches to assessment and intervention for their performance. The result is that the team views itself as a self-actualized system of relationships and interacting influences, all of which contribute to the performance and satisfaction of its members and of the group as a whole. They realize a deeper and more accurate view of the team with a powerful coaching structure supporting the team towards optimal productivity and effectiveness. Members want to be part of this kind of team and stay on it.  Turnover is lowered, productivity increased and the whole work environment benefits.  By focusing on creating a high-functioning system, every team member is more fulfilled because they are empowered to perform at his or her individual best. Moreover, they are part of something bigger than themselves, meeting important needs for members, the team itself and the Organization of which it is a part.  The team assessments are customizable to meet your specific team requirements and challenges. When combined with Team Coaching, the result is a powerful mapping process to identify team development next steps with strong accountability that takes them to the next, higher levels of achievement.

The team process is also supported by individual awareness and growth using the foundations of Emotional Intelligence and Leadership (see that section of this site for details).

Relationship Coaching:

Relationship Coaching is about supporting two people to achieve an understanding of their relationship as something greater than the two of them.  Whether professional or personal, relationships matter.  Ignoring them is at our own peril.

Positivity is the currency of relationship.  Learning how to most effectively leverage positivity is key to having successful relationships.  At work, relationship breakdown can impact performance for the individuals and the Organization.  At home, a deteriorating relationship unaddressed ultimately threatens the very existence of the relationship.

They discover something that is synergistic, the product of the two of them coming together and much more than their individual voices.  When a relationship steps up to this level, the alignment so necessary to relationship that lasts becomes a real product of true collaboration.  As a relationship coach, John provides powerful and heartfelt support for a relationship to look at itself in new ways, create a greater awareness of what is trying to happen in the relationship and challenge the individuals to be accountable to themselves and each other in doing so.

Conflict can actually help a relationship grow and reach higher levels of connection! However, without help two people may get stuck and experience conflict in a more divisive and threatening way.  John can help them have a much different experience so that conflict can support them in heading in a more productive direction, a more constructive interaction, as chosen by the relationship itself.

Why wait for breakdown of a relationship – either personal or professional ?  Get support and expertise by contacting John for more information.