Beyond Burnout, Disengagement & Resignation

Nurture Belonging and Purpose for Performance and Holistic Success

TeamWeave learning and development programs and coaching help your team cultivate and apply the knowledge, skills and qualities for a new way of working in your workplace.

A way that transcends burnout, disengagement, high turnover and a sense of meaninglessness which are commonplace in today’s workplaces, and moves toward a new and bigger version of success.

Belonging

Create an environment of belonging, and where each person's capabilities and potential are recognised and valued by all.

We support you to cultivate and sustain, nurturing personal and professional growth, psychological safety, wellbeing, connection and creativity.

Purpose

Have a Purpose, Vision and Mission that the team genuinely know and care about because they:

  • Create them collaboratively, with input invited from everyone in the team.

  • Impact society and/or the environment positively.

  • Use them to inform decision-making at all levels.

  • Enable them to work more autonomously while maintaining organisational cohesion.

Also support team members to explore their own purpose and fulfilment, deepening their empowerment and connection to their work and the team.

Performance

Achieve high performance by:

  • Growing human capacities in the team, as referred to under ‘Belonging’, together with accountability.

  • Enhanced team alignment, as referred to under ‘Purpose’, together with transparency.

  • Collective intelligence emerging, with enhanced adaptability and innovation to respond to opportunities, challenges and complexity, and less reliance on management for direction.

  • Increased efficiency, with less time and energy lost to office politics, gossip, or disengagement. Burnout, absenteeism, and turnover are significantly reduced.

Holistic success is then possible, achieving a positive impact and financial success with a fulfilled and thriving team.

See What is It? for more on what is in the TeamWeave Training and Coaching Programs and how they work.

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Who is TeamWeave For?

TeamWeave is designed for professional organisations of up to 30 people who are motivated to grow, evolve, and create a better way of working.

If that sounds like you and your organisation, TeamWeave could be exactly what you are looking for.

Even if you aren’t a perfect match with the above, if you resonate with our vision, there may still be an alignment. Below we outline what’s needed for a team to successfully engage with our programs and achieve transformative results. We hope that after exploring this you find that TeamWeave can still work for you!

Have questions? Still not sure? Send us an email or book a free Enquiry Call.

  • A prerequisite for doing TeamWeave’s programs is genuine desire for deeper belonging, purpose and performance in the team. This is absolutely essential for the leadership, and preferably for a majority of the team. For the team as a whole, we recommend having a discussion together about this before starting. If you like, we can join you on a video call when having such a discussion.

    There will be challenges to work through when applying the learnings and creating a new way of working together. For a successful outcome it is necessary that the desire for change and to move past the ways that are not working, is sufficiently strong that you are willing to work through those challenges.

  • Subject to having sufficient support to apply the learnings, the TeamWeave Introduction and Consolidation Training Programs are suitable for any size team.

    To support teams to apply the learnings, we have TeamWeave Coaching. Currently TeamWeave Coaching can support teams of up to 30 people.

    For larger teams guidance is needed from someone familiar and experienced with the concepts, either someone already in the team or a Consultant. Generally the larger the team the more complex it is to apply the learnings.

    We do not recommend doing a training course unless you have sufficient support to apply the learnings.

    Feel free to email us if you are not sure what sort of support you will need, or if you are considering in providing this guidance from within your own team. There is also the Consultants and Trainers Directory in the TeamWeave Community to help you find assistance if needed.

  • The TeamWeave Introduction Program has been designed so that most of those concepts can be applied by a team within an organisation without the rest of the organisation doing the program. Therefore the Introduction program is for a team within an organisation, or an entire organisation.

    TeamWeave Coaching is available to support such teams.

    Teams within larger organisations face the challenge of working with other parts of the organisation that work with the traditional “top down” approach, and a less open and authentic environment. How the team works with the other parts of the organisation will need to be actively planned and managed by the team for the TeamWeave training to be successful.

    An exception is government organisations. We recommend the TeamWeave programs not be done by any part of a government organisation.

    The TeamWeave Consolidation Program is for entire organisations only. The concepts covered can only be applied with full support and cooperation from the leadership of the organisation. It is not suitable to do this as a single team within an organisation that is not doing the TeamWeave programs or working toward Teal or another Next-Stage Model.

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  • We want our programs to be available for as many people as possible. However being mostly online, participation in our programs require a moderate level of literacy and computer skills, and computer access. If this is a barrier for some people in your team, we encourage you to find ways to bridge this gap. Here are some ideas:

    • Coach people in how to register and use it;

    • Someone read aloud pertinent content from the training;

    • For those unable to access or use the training, have in person group discussions about it, what people are learning and how it could be applied.

    We would love to hear of any other ideas you have to support people with this, to make our programs accesable to more people. Please email us with your ideas.

A New Paradigm for Work

A new paradigm for workplaces and organisations has emerged - with a more holistic view of success (See above) and people oriented systems to achieve it.

In the TeamWeave Community we refer to teams creating this new paradigm “Next-Stage Organisations”. Teal Organisations, Holacracy, Sociocracy, and Agile are some established models, with numerous others in existence.

TeamWeave’s Training and Coaching Programs are inspired by Teal Organisations concepts, as introduced in Frederick Laloux’s groundbreaking book, Reinventing Organizations (2014). However, you don’t need to aspire to be a Teal Organisation to participate and benefit in our programs.

Many teams and organisations have already implemented aspects of these approaches, whether intentionally or organically. If that sounds like your workplace, fantastic - you are already on the way. If you’re looking to take it further and need support in bringing these ideas to life, TeamWeave is here to help.

A New Way of Being

Becoming a Next-Stage Organisation a change in who we are and how we show up to work. Being authentic and open with each other, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. Building connection, trust and a sense of belonging, a culture that supports people to grow, learn and be their best.

To show up to work in this way requires an emotionally safe environment. The team leadership has primary responsibility for creating this environment. Official leaders, and those leading implementation of the changes. Everyone else in the team also has a responsibility to contribute, however their influence in this is less than that of the leadership.

Making the shift also requires decision making be less ‘top down’ and more collaborative, and the collaborative development of systems that allow people to be more autonomous. A framework is required so that the team can work cohesively.

The journey requires time and effort. It is not a quick fix. How long and difficult the journey will be is defendant on these four factors:

  • How different is this new way of working from how things are in your workplace now?

    How open and authentic are people and the leadership with each other? How safe it it to show some vulnerability? Do people not show vulnerability out of fear that it will be used against them? How much collaboration is there in decision making?

  • How familiar is this new way of being to people in the team?

    Do they already show some of these characteristics at work? How much do they live this way in their personal lives?

  • What is the capacity and willingness of the leadership? (Official leaders or those taking a lead role in the journey)

    Capacity and willingness to hold a safe space, and lead by example? Have they participated in, or lead, group events where there is high levels of trust and vulnerability? Either in the workplace or in their personal life? How willing are they to open up, and to share decision making power?

  • How important is it to the team? What is it that people want to let go of and move on from? What do people want to get out of this? Is it worth the effort and challenges?

TeamWeave can support you and your team with the first three. The fourth, how important is it, is up to you.

Not sure how this relates to your team? Book a free Enquiry Call to discuss with us.

Who is TeamWeave Not For?

TeamWeave practices are founded on transparency, open communication, shared decision-making, and a willingness to embrace vulnerability.

If the leadership of a team is unwilling or unable to embody and support these principles, the TeamWeave programs will not work and may lead to harm and distress within the organisation.

If there is significant opposition from staff members, efforts to impose these practices from a top-down approach would be counter to a Next-Stage Organisation approach, and are likely cause harm and distress.

Government organisations are incompatible with many of the TeamWeave concepts. Our Introduction program has been designed so that it can be taken on by individual teams within larger organisations. However at this stage we do not provide guidance and recommend our programs not be done by teams within Government organisations.

Where did TeamWeave come from?

Discover where TeamWeave came from as its founder shares the inspiration and journey that sparked the concept.

Meet the Team

Stephen Cole
Founder, Host and Coach, TeamWeave

Stephen built his own successful Teal Organisation, Integral Consulting Engineers. Inspired by its impact, Stephen sought a way to support more organisations to do it. The result is the TeamWeave Community.

Stephen leads mens groups and has participated in mens work for 20 years. He actively nurtures a deep connection with and reverence for nature, and loves to explore how humans are evolving and how that enables us to meet the pressing challenges facing humanity and the earth.

Here is a highly personal story of Stephen's journey: https://youtu.be/bYaib0j2kr8?feature=shared

Janine Beck
Co-host and Coach, TeamWeave

Janine has 25 years’ experience as a consultant, working with a diverse range of organisations in systems and technology development, knowledge management and training. She was an early participant in the Teal Organizations community in Europe.

Janine has also guided hundreds of individuals through transformational inner work. She is passionate about creating environments that foster authentic connection and help organisations evolve toward more conscious and collaborative ways of working.