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Over the past years, I've had the privilege of diving deep into the world of team coaching, and I've learned that trust is the secret sauce that fuels teams' success. With the intention to share and give back to the community, I created playbooks for team interventions to empower others to foster growth in their organizations.

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Navigating Team Toxins

Create awareness of toxic conflict behavior as a necessary first step to eliminate and replace it with healthy, productive communication patterns. This comprehensive playbook provides practical frameworks and tools for identifying, addressing, and transforming toxic team dynamics. Team toxins are destructive communication patterns that poison team relationships and undermine collaboration. They manifest as blame, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling - behaviors that create psychological unsafety and erode trust. This playbook combines insights from John Gottman's research on relationship dynamics with Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) methodologies and Liberating Structures facilitation techniques. You'll learn to recognize early warning signs of toxic behavior, facilitate difficult conversations, and guide teams toward healthier communication patterns. Ideal for coaches and facilitators working with teams experiencing conflict, low trust, or communication breakdowns. The playbook includes assessment tools, intervention strategies, and step-by-step facilitation guides to help teams move from toxicity to psychological safety.

Team ToxinsCommunicationConflict Resolution+1 more
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📖 Playbook

Uncovering your Team's Limiting Beliefs

Uncover and address hidden limiting beliefs that hinder the team's collective growth. For a team to be successful in today's fast-paced corporate environment, it needs to be able to adapt and adjust constantly. However, despite our best intentions, we often find ourselves entangled in habits obstructing our progress. This playbook offers a structured process to pinpoint and dismantle these barriers, known as "Limiting Beliefs." You will establish a supportive environment for personal and collective growth by guiding your team through this process. At the heart of this workshop lies Immunity to Change, a framework developed by Harvard professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. It recognizes that even though we genuinely desire change, deeply ingrained psychological barriers often hinder our progress. These barriers arise from our past experiences, fears, assumptions, and beliefs, which create a protective shield around our familiar ways of thinking and behaving. This workshop is ideal for teams facing significant changes, stagnation, conflicts, low morale, or seeking innovation. It's adaptable for new team formations, leadership development, skill enhancement, project kickoffs, and ongoing team development efforts. I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to my coach and mentor, Johann Entz-von Zerssen, for introducing this invaluable tool to me during one of our enlightening sessions. With the steps in this guide, you can run this workshop independently. But if you need help, do not hesitate to contact me at christian@hofstetter-coaching.com or reach out to me on LinkedIn.

Limiting BeliefsMindsetImmunity to Change+1 more
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Dealing with Resistance

Facilitating inclusive dialogue in the face of team resistance. In times of change and transformation, leaders often face resistance from their team members, which can hinder progress and impact morale. This "Dealing with Team Resistance" workshop equips leaders with practical tools to navigate these challenges effectively. Grounded in the four principles of Deep Democracy, this playbook guides leaders through a structured process of acknowledging diverse perspectives, fostering inclusive dialogue, and collaboratively developing solutions. The workshop is tailored for leaders steering their teams through significant changes, whether it's organizational restructuring, new strategic initiatives, or shifts in company culture. By engaging in activities that promote active listening, visual representation of opinions, and creative problem-solving, leaders will develop skills to transform resistance into constructive engagement. This approach not only addresses immediate challenges but also builds a foundation for a more resilient, adaptable team culture that can thrive amidst ongoing change.

Change ManagementResistanceDeep Democracy+1 more
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📖 Playbook

Working with Emotional Debt

Embrace the transformative power of unresolved emotional baggage and emerge stronger from transitions and loss. Our organizations and teams constantly accumulating emotional debt. This debt arises from unresolved feelings around significant transitions like reorganizations, departures (voluntary or involuntary), and other disruptive events. It can manifest as burnout, low morale, or difficulty collaborating effectively. This workshop provides a space to address these challenges head-on. By creating a safe haven for reflection and shared experience, we can help teams process their emotional baggage and emerge stronger and more connected. At the heart of this workshop lie the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) and a Liberating Structure in development called Griefwalking. NARM is a developmentally-oriented, neuroscientifically-informed approach for healing complex trauma on a personal and collective level, developed by Dr. Laurence Heller. This workshop is ideal for teams and organizations that went through significant transitions or experienced loss. It creates a safe space to share experiences and practice forms of helping that need no immediate action but open up possibilities for a deeper connection.

Emotional IntelligenceTeam HealthEmotional Debt