Focus Leadership Blog

Loeke Richter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Just starting to use FEBI in my professional life, I like to share the wonderful experience I had with a 3-woman pilot group. One of the goals of my assignment is to make them- forced to work together due to reorganization- a team, inside/outside. Their manager‘s biggest worry is that that don’t show a strong coming out as a team. I only have 4 sessions with the team and in the second one we went through the FEBI-reports.
After explaining and showing the basic elements of the 4 patterns, I asked them to react on their individual FEBI-reports, before giving the results of the group roll out.  At that time, they didn’t know that they all had the driver’s pattern as their weakest. They made a drawing of the pattern they wanted to work on most, all about the driver and then told each other their favorite sports and hobby’s, completely  the opposite of the driver.  Until that time they didn’t know a thing about
each others live and suspiciously regarded the other as being too much a driver… It was wonderful
to see them opening up, being amazed and flabbergasted about the one thing they have in common:
too little driver to stand up and come out. In short time there was lots of laughter, supporting ideas,
energy and fun.
The group roll out didn’t surprise them: strong visionary and collaborator, backing
up with organizer and if really necessary, driver.  Within 3 hours they got to know each other and got committed with brilliant ideas and targets.
For me as a coach, the main thing I had to do is showing them that they were really hard in keeping on track and focus.  Which was received with lots introspective humor. Tired but filled with good energy we ended up.