2020 has been such a crazy year. So much fear, separation, loss of income, loss of life, loss of important moments. Amidst all of this sadness, there have been some bright spots.

One of the positive areas for me has been the opportunity to lean into online learning. I have spent countless hours on free webinars, joined hundreds of people from around the world in global meditation sessions and participated in Peter Hawkin’s and David Clutterbuck’s Team Coaching program.

One thing that I have learned from the Team Coaching program is how important it is to become a learning team.

A team that is willing to reflect on it’s success and failures.
A team that values difference and recruits for diversity.
A team that values and listens to its stakeholders.
A team that looks future back and outside in.

Teams with these attributes can be more than the sum of its parts.

Often teams spend much of their time focused on individual goals and the relationships around the table.

One activity you might want to try with your team to widen their lens is to ask each teammate to bring an external learning to team meeting each week:

What have we learned from all of our stakeholders this week? (Stakeholders might be the press, a supplier, a new employee, an investor, a customer, the local community, the global community etc.)