Team Development Blog
Welcome to the Sky Space team development blog where team and organisational development specialists Jen, Stephane and Martyn share their thoughts and reflections. Our approach to helping clients overcome team challenges and realise team potential brings together systems thinking, systemic organisation and team coaching, relationship work, leadership development and consultancy around designing systems, processes and policies.
We’re based in the South West of England and have over 50 years’ combined experience working with clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors nationally and internationally. If you’d like to know more about how we work as team development specialists and why you should work with us click here.
We decided to start a team development blog as a way for us to shape our thinking, comment on emerging research, reflect on trends and stay engaged with the things we’re passionate about. Its also a way for us to give something to people we may never meet or work with in person, if you enjoy what you read let us know in the comments, we’d love to hear from you.
What next for Inclusive Leadership in Plymouth?
My last blog post sharing the story behind the Inclusive leadership for Plymouth Training Programme feels like it was written in a different time. This post explores how things are different now and...
The story behind “Inclusive Leadership Training for Plymouth”
Beyond working with organisations to help them overcome team challenges and realise team potential, we are also a social enterprise with a real interest in place-based work. This is the story behind...
We need to stop this obsession with “Diversity”
Diversity, groupthink and box-ticking In the 80’s, I worked as a management consultant for one of the big global firms, consulting on cultural change. Overcoming team challenges was important and...
Why take a relationship systems approach to team development?
When and why take a relationship systems approach to team development and overcoming team challenges? Fair question. One that I've answered straighforwardly in this blog post by refering to a real...
13 personal reasons to overcome team difficulties
13 personal reasons for overcoming team difficulties Being on a team plagued with challenge is not generally at the top of anyone’s wish list. Working in a toxic environment is unpleasant, and it is...
Great Teams: setting minds and souls on fire!
Great Teams: setting minds and souls on fire! I don't often get to hear Pause for Thought on Radio 2, but I did catch one just before lockdown - it was Reverend Richard Coles, talking about...
10 ways to support your team after lockdown
10 ways to support your team after lockdown - Quick links This article is a long read. Click to scroll to the section you are most interested in: Why supporting your team after lockdown matters 1....
Team Performance and Psychological Momentum
A team performance to remember! 13-0, that is how badly my primary school football team was beaten the first time out. From the first whistle it seemed like all the momentum was with the other team....
Bringing work to life
Here's the picture Three men are toiling in an ancient quarry, chipping away at the stone. When asked what they are doing, the first, rather morosely comes back with ”cutting out blocks of stone”....
Life and work: a tragic love story with a twist
Do you work to live, or live to work? I have always found this distinction intriguing. The common understanding of it is that those who work to live simply endure their job in order to sustain...
Other Team Development blogs we recommend…
If you’re as interested in team development as us we thought you might like these team development blogs. We hope they provide you with interesting insights, knowledge and ideas to inspire you’re own approach to team development.
If you’re interested in team coaching we recommend:
- The ‘Team Coaching International’ blog
- The ‘Team Coaching Zone’ blog and podcast
For thinking about teams as relationship systems we recommend:
- The blog from the Centre for Right Relationships (UK) blog
- And, the organisation and relationship systems blog from CRRGlobal
For systems thinking for social change, take a look at the blog from the Schumacher Institute.
For leadership development try the Co Active blog.
We’ll add more as we go, if you know any great team development blogs please let us know, we’d love to take a look.
Happy reading.
Stephane, Martyn and Jen
