When a computer stops working

Causes, hidden dynamics and how to recover it with Systems Coaching

By Sergio Blancafort, co-founder and managing partner of Green Light GO, PCC Coach, CTI Faculty Leader, Organizational and Relational Systems Coach, and Professional Somatic Coach.

The moment when a “perfect” team breaks down

Our equipment worked like clockwork until the day it stopped. It happened apparently suddenly, as a result of an outburst of nerves, in a moment of stress in which sides were generated. It was never the same again.

Those of us who had been friends stopped sharing our humanity. Those who were singled out as victims or culprits did not stop feeding the fire of resentment in a thousand ways (most of them invisible). As a result, our days in the company became opaque and that had a direct impact on our lives and on the evaluation of results.

What’s Behind Team Conflicts

How did we get to that point? Was it really that outburst of nerves and subsequent comments that destroyed our camaraderie and best practices, or was it just that unfortunate incident that brought to the surface something that was already there, something we pretended not to see but had been growing among us for some time?

At that point, there is no point in pointing out culprits or introducing firewalls. The “culture” of the team (the reason we are together and interdependent), our purpose, has ceased to shine and must be restored.

ORSC™ Systems Coaching for Teams and Organizations

An in-depth systemic work of ORSC™ (Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching) also leads us to detect the underlying reasons, behavioral patterns or relational structures that have contributed to this happening.

The systems approach does not focus on individual people, but on the relationship between them: the relational system they create together. Therefore, only after doing this work will we be able to restore the system and, intentionally and consciously, recover our well-being and efficiency as a team.

If these types of situations sound familiar—seemingly well-functioning equipment until something breaks, unexpressed tensions, or detrimental dynamics that repeat themselves for no apparent reason—ORSC’s systems approach offers a completely different way to approach it.

In the first module of the ORSC program, Fundamentals, we explore precisely how to read what is happening between people in a team, and how to intervene from the system to generate clearer conversations and drive more effective actions.

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