Sari Van Poelje's guest appearances

Sari Van Poelje

The Game of Teams

3 People in Your Head

Chaos to Creation Confessions

John Fleming

Michael Zipursky

Stuart Lancaster

Paul Robinson

Amy Edmondson

Matt Taylor

Paul Lawrence

Callum Laing

Sarah Hill

Michael Simmons

David Kadavy

John Hill

Marcia Reynolds

John Baldoni

Pete Shotton

OwlTail

In this episode, we speak with Drs Sari van Poelje who is a Teaching and supervising transactional analyst in the Organisational field. Sari is an international executive and team coach and expert on agile business innovation. She has been the director of Intact Academy for 30 years, giving accredited ICF and EMCC training to coaches and consultants all over the world. She works as a consultant with multinationals, family businesses and start-ups to help them create inspiring leadership teams, cooperative cultures and agile innovation. Sari has been a director in various multinationals herself for 23 years. She is a licensed teaching and supervising transactional analyst, PCM trainer, NOBCO-EMCC accredited Master coach, Msc systemic team coach and Msc Supervisor. She has published numerous articles and books on leadership, coaching and organizational change. She is the initiator and editor of the new book on New theory and applications of TA in organizations - On the Edge.https://www.routledge.com/New-Theory-and-Practice-of-Transactional-Analysis-in-Organizations-On-the/Poelje-Graaf/p/book/9781032002965 You can contact Sari via the following websites: www.intactacademy.com www.teamagility.com www.sarivanpoelje.com

In this episode, we speak with Drs Sari van Poelje who is a Teaching and supervising transactional analyst in the Organisational field. Sari is an international executive and team coach and expert on agile business innovation. She has been the director of Intact Academy for 30 years, giving accredited ICF and EMCC training to coaches and consultants all over the world. She works as a consultant with multinationals, family businesses and start-ups to help them create inspiring leadership teams, cooperative cultures and agile innovation. Sari has been a director in various multinationals herself for 23 years. She is a licensed teaching and supervising transactional analyst, PCM trainer, NOBCO-EMCC accredited Master coach, Msc systemic team coach and Msc Supervisor. She has published numerous articles and books on leadership, coaching and organizational change. She is the initiator and editor of the new book on New theory and applications of TA in organizations - On the Edge.<a href="https://www.routledge.com/New-Theory-and-Practice-of-Transactional-Analysis-in-Organizations-On-the/Poelje-Graaf/p/book/9781032002965" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.routledge.com/New-Theory-and-Practice-of-Transactional-Analysis-in-Organizations-On-the/Poelje-Graaf/p/book/9781032002965</a> You can contact Sari via the following websites: <a href="https://intactacademy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.intactacademy.com</a> <a href="https://agilebusinessinnovation.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.teamagility.com</a> <a href="https://sarivanpoelje.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sarivanpoelje.com</a>

Sari van Poelje - Organisational Transactional Analysis (Organisational Series, Episode 3)

SHOW NOTES How Sari manages working on more than one book at once: It's a combination of creativity and structure My discipline has always been to really structure things and on the creative side to really keep on developing. I go in and out on structure - first I diverge speak to clients, investigate ideas. Before I converge. It all starts with a question I need to answer for them. It always goes observation, interpretation, conceptualization, and then I started process. I look for patterns, and then interpret them Conceptualization: there are many roads to Rome, what model or concept could I create? If all goes well then I go to productize, and create a training course, or book, or whatever they need In that divergent stage, what I've noticed is I really need time to myself. I can't take any feedback then I need to shut myself away. Being an entrepreneur makes it really difficult to lock yourself away, because as an entrepreneur, you're always thinking not only about your next paycheck, but usually about the next year's paycheck. So you're always doing acquisition and execution at the same time. Working in blocks is also a very expensive way to write a book because each time it takes me about a day and a half to get back into that voice again. And by that time I have half a day to write in a weekend. So that's the dilemma. With external constraints I think the trick is not to fight them. If they're really non-negotiable, they're nonnegotiable. As an entrepreneur, you have to be somewhat narcissistic in the sense that you think that anything is possible. My constraint is time - the balance between time and money. So if I don't spend time, I don't make money. If I don't spend time, I don't write my book, which could get me more money, you know, that's, that's, that's the dialogue I have. Learn how Sari, the precocious kid was giving riding lessons at 6, and started her business when she was 22. What helped me was that I didn't know it was impossible... I actually don't really look back. I look more in the here and now, forward. When I tell people my story of entrepreneurship, I am really proud. I'm really proud of and that I've been able to help clients improve the quality of their work and their life along the way I fell in love at 56... One of the tricks to being creative is to have a plan, A, B and C, so always have many things on the go. How do you decide what's the right project, right now? I go where my heart lies, where my passion is. I start with a puzzle. You should also let go of ideas that don't have that energy--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chaosification/message

SHOW NOTES How Sari manages working on more than one book at once: It's a combination of creativity and structure My discipline has always been to really structure things and on the creative side to really keep on developing. I go in and out on structure - first I diverge speak to clients, investigate ideas. Before I converge. It all starts with a question I need to answer for them. It always goes observation, interpretation, conceptualization, and then I started process. I look for patterns, and then interpret them Conceptualization: there are many roads to Rome, what model or concept could I create? If all goes well then I go to productize, and create a training course, or book, or whatever they need In that divergent stage, what I've noticed is I really need time to myself. I can't take any feedback then I need to shut myself away. Being an entrepreneur makes it really difficult to lock yourself away, because as an entrepreneur, you're always thinking not only about your next paycheck, but usually about the next year's paycheck. So you're always doing acquisition and execution at the same time. Working in blocks is also a very expensive way to write a book because each time it takes me about a day and a half to get back into that voice again. And by that time I have half a day to write in a weekend. So that's the dilemma. With external constraints I think the trick is not to fight them. If they're really non-negotiable, they're nonnegotiable. As an entrepreneur, you have to be somewhat narcissistic in the sense that you think that anything is possible. My constraint is time - the balance between time and money. So if I don't spend time, I don't make money. If I don't spend time, I don't write my book, which could get me more money, you know, that's, that's, that's the dialogue I have. Learn how Sari, the precocious kid was giving riding lessons at 6, and started her business when she was 22. What helped me was that I didn't know it was impossible... I actually don't really look back. I look more in the here and now, forward. When I tell people my story of entrepreneurship, I am really proud. I'm really proud of and that I've been able to help clients improve the quality of their work and their life along the way I fell in love at 56... One of the tricks to being creative is to have a plan, A, B and C, so always have many things on the go. How do you decide what's the right project, right now? I go where my heart lies, where my passion is. I start with a puzzle. You should also let go of ideas that don't have that energy--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chaosification/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chaosification/message</a>

Sari van Poelje on Chaos to Creation Confessions: "I didn't know it was impossible..."

Introduction: Sari is a renowned expert in the field of Agile, Business Innovation and Change. She is Managing Director of her own company Intact Academy that teaches 6 accredited programs for Leaders, Consultants and Coaches. A lot of her work is informed by her background in Transactional Analysis. Sari has worked for over 31 years, over 5 continents with in excess of 2000 Alumni from her programs. She has also worked in various director roles for companies like EMI Music, Shell, KLM and ASML. Sari is a prolific writer with 14 publications to her name. She has just completed her first book called “Agile Business Innovation &amp; Design” which will be released later this year.    Podcast episode summary: Sari shared her wisdom on teams, her approach to team coaching and her definition of agile and how she supports companies adopt an agile model for business innovation. Sari populated this episode with numerous anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom for both leaders and practitioners of team coaching. Her insight into teams and what makes them great makes this a must listen.    Noteworthy points of discussion  Agile is not about leadership characteristics or psychological factors it is more about  how the business is structured, how leadership is created to have the energy of a start-up and to be coach like and how the business co-operates with its customers and how innovation is married to a commercial orientation.  Sari consults business to adopt an Agile Business Innovation design in 28 weeks. Business must want to change to think and be Agile.  Intact Academy offers a very comprehensive Team Coaching Program. Based a lot around TA (Transactional Analysis) using concepts like Voice Dialogue, Constellations, Group Dynamics all used to support the team change Sari reminds listeners it is important to distinguish between Groups and Teams many people confuse the terms and forget what it means to work on a team Members have to accept Interdependence and Collaboration. Also, it is important that people understand the roles of Leadership and Followership  Sari described the approach she uses to support coaches learn about team coaching. She is adamant about the order in which team coaches approach teams.    Level One is all about the Structure of a team -boundaries/hierarchy/Roles Level Two is about relations on a team -how to improve the dynamics and improve social ranking between members  Level Three is about the team Imago or perception of the team and its culture    Sari shares an example of how Social Ranking when it is not equidistant can derail a team  Story is an important feature of teams and important to attend to the narratives teams hold and whether the current narrative will yield the change required for the team Some trip wires novice team coaches fall prey include assuming the role of the leader, mixing up the order described above, being there “merely to help” as opposed to speaking the truth and helping the Leader and team get really clear about what is expected to innovate and change Sari believes love is a wonderful energy for teams and helps a team change its story once care, attention and respect are in place  Sari uses the Hero’s Journey with teams. Joseph Campbells book is about the story of stories -all stories can be seen as 12 steps -Vogel’s work with the Hero’s Journey is perhaps more accessible  Finally Sari after over 34 years as a practicing consultant, coach and leader is returning to what she calls the essentials, helping create meetings between people/sense making of relations-this is what is needed in todays’ world – she is also going to do a lot more with stories and story -telling using dance and singing  Sari shares the resources she uses to inform her practice with teams ‘ but she also shares an invaluable resource, the everyday happenings. She suggests that we become better at everyday observation. Teams reveal themselves in the same way. Observation followed by conceptualisation to understand that behaviour means for change.     Resources: the following include the resources we alluded to over the course of our conversation   www.intactadademy.com  Agile Business Innovation and Design to be published later this year  Mary Beth O Neil: Executive Coaching with Back Bone and Heart  Joseph Campbell: he Hero with a Thousand Faces  Vogel, Christopher (2007) The Writers Journey  Morton A, Lieberman, Irvin Yalom and Matthew Miles: Encounter Groups First Facts  

Introduction: Sari is a renowned expert in the field of Agile, Business Innovation and Change. She is Managing Director of her own company Intact Academy that teaches 6 accredited programs for Leaders, Consultants and Coaches. A lot of her work is informed by her background in Transactional Analysis. Sari has worked for over 31 years, over 5 continents with in excess of 2000 Alumni from her programs. She has also worked in various director roles for companies like EMI Music, Shell, KLM and ASML. Sari is a prolific writer with 14 publications to her name. She has just completed her first book called “Agile Business Innovation &amp; Design” which will be released later this year.  Podcast episode summary: Sari shared her wisdom on teams, her approach to team coaching and her definition of agile and how she supports companies adopt an agile model for business innovation. Sari populated this episode with numerous anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom for both leaders and practitioners of team coaching. Her insight into teams and what makes them great makes this a must listen.  Noteworthy points of discussion <ul> <li>Agile is not about leadership characteristics or psychological factors it is more about  how the business is structured, how leadership is created to have the energy of a start-up and to be coach like and how the business co-operates with its customers and how innovation is married to a commercial orientation. </li> <li>Sari consults business to adopt an Agile Business Innovation design in 28 weeks. Business must want to change to think and be Agile. </li> <li>Intact Academy offers a very comprehensive Team Coaching Program. Based a lot around TA (Transactional Analysis) using concepts like Voice Dialogue, Constellations, Group Dynamics all used to support the team change</li> <li>Sari reminds listeners it is important to distinguish between Groups and Teams many people confuse the terms and forget what it means to work on a team</li> <li>Members have to accept Interdependence and Collaboration. Also, it is important that people understand the roles of Leadership and Followership </li> <li>Sari described the approach she uses to support coaches learn about team coaching. She is adamant about the order in which team coaches approach teams. </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Level One is all about the Structure of a team -boundaries/hierarchy/Roles</li> <li>Level Two is about relations on a team -how to improve the dynamics and improve social ranking between members </li> <li>Level Three is about the team Imago or perception of the team and its culture </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Sari shares an example of how Social Ranking when it is not equidistant can derail a team </li> <li>Story is an important feature of teams and important to attend to the narratives teams hold and whether the current narrative will yield the change required for the team</li> <li>Some trip wires novice team coaches fall prey include assuming the role of the leader, mixing up the order described above, being there “merely to help” as opposed to speaking the truth and helping the Leader and team get really clear about what is expected to innovate and change</li> <li>Sari believes love is a wonderful energy for teams and helps a team change its story once care, attention and respect are in place </li> <li>Sari uses the Hero’s Journey with teams. Joseph Campbells book is about the story of stories -all stories can be seen as 12 steps -Vogel’s work with the Hero’s Journey is perhaps more accessible </li> <li>Finally Sari after over 34 years as a practicing consultant, coach and leader is returning to what she calls the essentials, helping create meetings between people/sense making of relations-this is what is needed in todays’ world – she is also going to do a lot more with stories and story -telling using dance and singing </li> <li>Sari shares the resources she uses to inform her practice with teams ‘ but she also shares an invaluable resource, the everyday happenings. She suggests that we become better at everyday observation. Teams reveal themselves in the same way. Observation followed by conceptualisation to understand that behaviour means for change. </li> </ul> Resources: the following include the resources we alluded to over the course of our conversation  <ol> <li><a href="http://www.intactadademy.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.intactadademy.com</a> </li> <li>Agile Business Innovation and Design to be published later this year </li> <li>Mary Beth O Neil: Executive Coaching with Back Bone and Heart </li> <li>Joseph Campbell: he Hero with a Thousand Faces </li> <li>Vogel, Christopher (2007) The Writers Journey </li> <li>Morton A, Lieberman, Irvin Yalom and Matthew Miles: Encounter Groups First Facts </li> </ol>

A Conversation with Dr. Sari Van Poelje on the Game of Teams Podcast series 