If you want to change, just apply the required behavior, communicate well and change in small steps and you will achieve your goals. Right?

It sounds easy and simple, but apparently there is more to learn because if this was all that we needed to do, we would all be famous, successful and rich. But unfortunately we aren’t (yet).

It is intriguing to think about why for example people fail to lose weight and others don’t. Or why organizations fail to achieve their goals and others don’t. In a way individuals an organizations are similar. If you look at it with with a holistic view, you can distinguish a few different aspects, or success criteria so you like, that add to the success (or actually: the health) of an individual or an organization. These aspects inter-relate with each others, they are dependent of each other. One of the aspects, maybe the most important one, is leadership. It you like sport, it is fascinating to see the difference between teams that are successful and teams that are not. What do they do differently? What is the role of the coach?

Self organizing or self steering teams can add to the success of an organization. Not only because they are more flexible, more productive and more result-oriented. They mirror the required balance and leadership that are key for healthy individuals and healthy organizations. And the more healthy, the more successful you can be. The Self-STEERing Team Framework is a framework that takes into account the most important aspects that are key for successful self steering teams. It can be applied to teams of all levels and gives room for existing processes, rules, methods etc. If you work in or with teams and are struggling with efficiency, motivation, results, people etc. you should check this out.