Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness: The International No. 1 Bestseller

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The sentiment above says: we are a team, we have high expectations of each other, how can we improve together? A maori spiritual adviser adds that a healthy culture would take a moment of pain, and then ‘carve the story into our walls’, so that the current group, and future descendants, can learn from our experiences.

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The most important question every leader must answer: What is the optimal environment for this group to perform to their best? The answer always contains a component of belonging. The challenge. To create an environment where everyone feels like they belong, regardless of who they are and what they believe.If you want to understand what makes great teams great, Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness will give you another piece of the puzzle. You'll also learn techniques to put Eastwood’s principles into practice. When you do that, you'll become one with the great teams of the past. My job is really quite simple, it’s trying to help leaders create the optimal environment for their people to thrive in, and achieve the mission that they share and this is as simple as that.” In This Episode: How does he describe himself On the early grasslands, we carried obvious physiological disadvantages over other animals but from this brutal reality the super strength of Homo sapiens emerged: the ability to form strongly-bonded and highly effective groups. The need to belong is hardwired into each of us and successful team leaders need to foster that, says UK-based performance coach Owen Eastwood (Ngāi Tahu).

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Hey, can we chat? Today I think I saw something out there (name it) which looked below the line we’ve set. I could be wrong, so just tell me if I am – we are just trying to grow together’. For 99 percent of human history we were hunter-gatherers and [people] had to feed the village and they only had each other. They had to organise each other, they had to create relationships of trust, they had to be really clear on what they were doing, they had to make sure they had the skills to achieve it, and they were really honed in on that. They also understood what made teams weak and avoided those things." Owen Eastwood’s interpretation of ‘Whakapapa’ is explained through rich story-telling, quotations and tales from other books, people and their experiences.I think mastery for me has a light side and a dark side. On the light side, it’s about growth. It’s about getting a deep understanding and really sharpening your tools in an area. For me, it’s really, really important that that benefits a tribe. To me, it’s not an individualistic thing so much as how this will help others. That’s the culture I come from. I think the other side though, is that sometimes mastery people associated with imposing themselves, it’s become synonymous with power and influence over people. So I master others, I master a situation. And for me, that’s not the optimal environment when we feel we are trying to dominate. I think the great environments that I’ve certainly seen are ones where the growth, the mastery is enabled because people are given a freedom to express themselves and freedom to be vulnerable, freedom to take risks. The beauty of Maori culture In Māori culture, the principle of Whakapapa places oneself in a wider context that links to land and tribal groupings and heritage. It offers a sense of immortality, attaching ourselves to something permanent in this impermanent world.