Leaders and Home Teams.
Developing the capacity to resolve from inside responsibility — where a leader cannot simply step out of the situation.
Leaders can’t stand outside the situation.
A mediator can hold a neutral, contracted position. A leader cannot. They must hold purpose, people, authority, relationships and consequences together, all at once — and still help everyone move. That is the ground where a leader’s resolving capacity has to work.
We develop that capacity close to the real work, where it actually has to be exercised.
Identity, Capacity and Maturity.
Formation is more than skills. Through LIRA we develop who a leader is becoming, what they can hold under pressure, and how wisely they use it — formed together into the Visible Presence others experience as trustworthiness.
Capacity forms best in the real unit.
The Home Team are the people who depend on one another to carry shared work and responsibility. We develop the leader and that team together — because resolving capacity holds better when it is built where the work actually happens.
Formation, close to the work.
Leadership formation
Identity, Capacity and Maturity developed through real practice, so leaders stay present under pressure.
Difficult conversations
The hardest part of the role — practised until it is something a leader can actually do well.
Mediative Coaching, as a leadership practice
Helping people move, and holding strained relationships, from inside responsibility. More →
Home Team & organisational development
Developing the leader and the people they depend on together, and the conditions around them.
Every offer has to answer four questions.
The same test runs across everything we do. Here is how developing leaders and Home Teams answers it.
Forming those contracted to help others.
Leaders resolve from inside responsibility; practitioners work from a contracted role with greater independence. Same underlying question, different position — see Practitioner pathways.
Developing leaders who must resolve from within?
Tell us the situation and the capability you want to build, and we’ll help you find the right starting place.