Systemic work 

WITH AN ORGANISATIONAL SET-UP

  • Systemic work with teams is a surprisingly effective method of reflection.
  • It shows what is going on in the team's undercurrent.
  • It provides insight into resources, obstacles and the relationship to the common goal.
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Systemic work 

WITH AN ORGANISATIONAL SET-UP

  • Systemic work with teams is a surprisingly effective method of reflection.
  • It shows what is going on in the team's undercurrent.
  • It provides insight into resources, obstacles and the relationship to the common goal.

What is systemic work

Systemic work is a way of understanding one's own place in a system, any system, and one's relationship with others in that system.

It teaches a team where impediments are and why a team member lapses into certain behaviours that hinder development and growth.

A system is a group of people in which there are bond, arrangement and balance. A business set-up of a system can be done as a team, but also in other contexts:

  • An executive team can explore bonding, arrangement and balance with shareholders, a supervisory board and employees or customers through a setup.
  • Sales staff can work with back office to explore the undercurrent and where the customer stands in their set-up.

A set-up works best when the company is functioning healthily and is itself keen to develop faster.

systemic work in a company constellation

A display of objects representing a system.

Why systemic work

A line-up using Babushkas.

As a team, we have our place. Somewhere in the organisation chart we are inscribed, among other teams at a certain hierarchical level. We can draw that situation and put it down. Then we make a layout of it. For instance, how is the communication horizontal and vertical? How are the assignments going? Do we get input and deliver output? Does that make sense?

Results:

  • Participants in an organisational constellation workshop experience in a surprising way why their team functions the way it does.
  • It provides insight into where improvement is possible and what is needed to achieve it.
  • It creates simultaneity and gives energy to tackle obstacles.

Systemic work is particularly suitable for cooperative teams with an open feedback culture who want to strengthen their flow.

Systemic work is one of the methods used by Team4Teams to support organisations in their development and growth. An organisational constellation also allows participants to be intuitively placed in space and questioned by the facilitator about their perceptions. Lively, playful and serious.

Contact

Some forms of work

Order

Different principles of order, of sequence, come into play within a team. It is good to realise this and see which ordering principle has the most influence. It is also fun and surprising. We do a joint inventory of the possibilities and then implement them. The most common ones are:

  • age
  • length of service (seniority)
  • professional knowledge (educational level)

What could define an order in your team?

The goal

What resources can we use to overcome possible obstacles?
What is the purpose of the team?

In itself, it's a fun exercise to formulate that once briefly and concisely. We then put that goal down, literally, represented by one team member. Other team members then represent the team. How does this line-up relate to the goal? Are all noses pointing in the same direction?

Are there goals in your organisation that you want to explore?

The appointment

We made agreements with each other: this is how we are going to do it, this is how we are going to proceed.

We briefly recap those agreements.

But are they right? Do the agreements fit us, what we want, what we think we are, our goal? Or does something still need to be adjusted?

Which appointment would you put in?

My relationship

What is my relationship to the team? A small set-up that anyone can do.

One person represents you, the others the team.

  • How do they relate to each other?
  • Is there any contact?
  • What is the distance?

Which movement are you looking forward to?

My place in the team

What is my place in the team in relation to my place in my family of origin? What is my place?
In a family, you are born and your place is fixed: in the children's row and in relation to your parents. Look back at your family. How did things go there? What was going on there? What place did you occupy?

Now look at your team. How are you doing there? Do you recognise the situation? How about if you do it differently?

What type of leadership?

What type of leadership do we have? What suits us c.q. fits us?
We start with a brief introduction to a number of leadership types. We then choose one of these that we think or feel applies to us. We do a line-up with that. Is it right?

Does that type fit our team? Or do we see something else? And then what happens to us?

About the team

Nelleke van Klaveren

Nelleke is a Contextual Worker. Contextual coaching is closely related to Systemic Work. Nelleke applies many working methods during team coaching processes.

Ineke Geertsema

Ineke is familiar with family constellations and a very experienced coach. 

Boudewijn Lemstra

Boudewijn does organisational constellations in addition to family constellations. He has written a book about it: First aid for organisational issues.

Pieter Schoe

Pieter is familiar with organisational constellations and applies them during team coaching processes.