What Winter Can Teach Us About Leadership and Teams
By the time you read this, I’ll have been somewhere between Sydney and Scone – travelling across Australia to help teams work better together.
As I’m writing this though, I’m still fighting off jetlag from my Europe trip, re-adjusting to fewer hours of sunlight, and about 20 fewer degrees, too.
Maybe it sounds like I’m complaining about the change in scenery and temperature, but I’m not. I’m grateful for it.
It reminds me of something: winter gets a bad rap. We tend to treat it as the season we just need to get through.
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As a (rose) gardener though, I should know better: winter is the season for groundwork.
For turning the soil
For clearing what’s no longer needed
For planting what won’t bloom for quite a while yet.
And isn’t that what team building is about too?
It’s not flashy. It’s not the bloom or the harvest, but it’s what makes them possible.
So, if your team is due for some honest tending – if there’s trust to be rebuilt, roles to be clarified, or culture to be composted or renewed – this is the season for it.
All good things,
Juliet Robinson
Leadership and Change Specialist
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