If you aspire to be a highly effective team, your primary obstacle will be the adaptive limits of your team members.

 

The rub:

 

We adaptive change experts know what drives human behavior. And it’s not about intention. It’s about psychology. Most people are unconsciously committed to hiding their inadequacies, protecting their turf, showing themselves to their best advantage, covering up their weaknesses, playing politics, hiding their limitations, or just plain hiding. This has nothing to do with intelligence and applies to your CEO, your board and the rest of the C-suite, to your providers, nurses, mid-level leaders, and so on.

In other words, the technical abilities of your team will take you only as far as your team members’ level of adult development will allow. Ignore this reality and you’ll find yourself bashing your head against an effectiveness glass ceiling. 

To thrive as a team, your “collective mind” must reach a level of development called the Self-Authoring Mind. Embracing ambiguity and paradox, the ability to consider multiple truths, elevated sense of authority and agency, welcoming of differences, the ability to think with complexity, and more. These are all aspects of the Self-Authoring Mind.

Fern EPC is a fast track for physician and executive teams to develop the higher levels of adult development required to thrive.

Your team has a “collective mind” much like an individual mind. The collective IQ of your team mind should be greater than the mean intelligence level of your team members. This is the reason organizations form teams in the first place.

 

But your team will hit an effectiveness glass ceiling if they don’t attend to the team’s adaptive development. Subliminal fears and beliefs, unspoken social contracts and expectations, shared biases, and, most important of all, shared assumptions: these are the elephant in the room that many teams ignore, reducing their collective IQ and effectiveness. (And worse.)

 

Fern EPC gets you clear about your team’s Big Assumptions and trends your team mind toward higher levels of adult development so your leadership team can thrive.

Experience

Our coaches have decades of experience counseling and mentoring individuals and years supporting high-performing leaders. Fern EPC brings out the best in people through candor, trust, respect, and compassion. Our successful approach comes from his unique blend of “hard” and “soft” skills, using evidence-tested techniques to methodically empower executives of any industry, physicians, and physician leaders toward higher levels of complex thinking and adult development.

Certified Immunity to Change (ITC) Consultant

Certified Leadership Circle Profile Consultant

PCI Certified Physician Developmental Coach

Experienced Developmental Executive Consultant

Somatic Experiencing for Physicians and Executives

Licensed Psychotherapist, Nationally Certified Trauma Specialist

The Fern EPC method of coaching is based on the Immunity to Change process created by Harvard professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. It is a straight forward and extremely powerful developmental tool. Applying the Immunity to Change process to team members magnifies team impact exponentially. When groups of individuals engage in development, collaboration improves, communication is enhanced, engagement levels increase, and cohesion deepens.

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