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Marco Polo Consulting?

By Giorgia Madonno Marco Polo Consulting

We are co-creating  a better working

environment & more engaging/ 

adaptive organizations

How to create trust in a team

Vulnerability for  team effectiveness

By Giorgia Madonno Marco Polo Consulting

 

 

The only way to create trust in a team is creating the right environment where people can feel free to put down the mask and be vulnerable.

 

 

 

Usually when at Marco Polo Consulting, we consult on the team effectiveness we work on the 5 dysfunctions of a team.

 

The first one is exactly the lack of trust.

 

On this aspect we do half day workshop:

 

1) people are requested to bring their personality profile at the workshop

 

2) after some icebreaker and explanation on why trust and vulnerability are important for the team, they share some "personal information" that make them known better by the other team members

 

3) each of them present to the others his own profile 

 

4)  they do an exercise helping them to receive feedback from the others and know their blind spot (we call it "cornice" - "frames")

 

5) in the afternoon we do individual coaching or peer coaching

Usually it works very well and people really open up.

 

After that each month we work on the other 5 dysfunctions and cross-cultural skills (if needed) with workshop and coaching + action learning de-briefing and people work together to co-create labs and prototypes on aspects important for the team's health.

 

We meet them regularly and do coaching circles to help them overcome roadblocks 

Multicultural skills

Managing a multicultural team- tips

By Giorgia Madonno Marco Polo Consulting

How to manage multicultural team? interesting tips in the link below

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Personal development: paying attention

Success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always to the capacity of delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Julia Cameron

New forms of organization

New form of organizations are emerging.
At Marco Polo Consulting we are exploring it

Platforms of purpose.

Read more here:

https://trohan.com/2014/09/15/platforms-of-purpose/

Team working

It is about "co-creation"

Mindfulness for co-inspiring and personal development

(Dis- Engagement)

A new way of working is emerging: more innovative and collaborative

Getting inspiration from Renaissance

By Giorgia Madonno Marco Polo Consulting

 

 

Co-working spaces are rising, the concept of craftmanship is at the base of a new form of people engagement, art is a channel to access wholeness and co-creative space and inspiration: it will be interesting to see if with our cultural pillars we (Italians) will be able to take advantage of our heritage. It seems fitting well with the emerging trends of a new way of working.

Inspirational question from the article you can read on the below link:

"What can those who want to create more innovative and collaborative workplaces today — whether that’s a better office in a traditional organization, a coworking space, a startup incubator, or a fab lab — learn from the workshops of the Renaissance?"

Read more here