{"id":116655,"date":"2025-09-12T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actitudes.ch\/?p=116655"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:37:54","slug":"what-are-sustainable-teams-by-frederic-meuwly-the-founder-of-the-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actitudes.ch\/en\/quest-ce-que-les-equipes-durables-par-frederic-meuwly-le-fondateur-de-lapproche\/","title":{"rendered":"What are \u00abSustainable Teams\u00bb? by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Meuwly, the Founder of the approach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The development of our approach to supporting \u2019sustainable teams\u201c started from an observation: teams need new integrated, pragmatic, and concrete tools to manage the complexity of their current work context and to develop and maintain high-performing teamwork in the long term.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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These new support approaches have become necessary because teams today operate in a work environment that is increasingly Volatile, Complex, Uncertain, and Ambiguous<\/strong>, and we speak of a VUCA environment to represent this reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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In fact, organizations themselves are complex systems.<\/strong> If we compare them by analogy with living systems, the proper functioning of the organization as a whole (the organism) will depend on the good health of its different organs (departments) and <\/span>ultimately <\/span><\/i>of each small cell (the teams and individuals) that constitute this organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This visual represents the team as a cell surrounded by a semi-permeable membrane, and its main challenge will be to constantly manage bidirectional interactions with its environment, the numerous incoming\/outgoing factors, and all their interconnections and interdependencies between these factors and the people involved inside and outside the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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We realize that it is impossible to \u201ccontrol\u201d such a complex system, and for this reason, old hierarchical management methods are gradually being replaced by new, more distributed and participatory organizational models that follow a systemic logic.<\/h4>\n

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For the same reasons, we observe that project management is no longer done in a sequential and linear manner but rather with agile methods adapted to a more \u201ccircular\u201d mode of operation.<\/h4>\n

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A question I am often asked: how can we succeed in developing \u201csustainable\u201d teams when we are precisely asked to be more and more \u201cagile\u201d and reactive to face rapid changes in our environment?<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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In fact, a sustainable team will implement a series of practices that will allow it to reconcile the challenges related to the short term (agility) and the long term (sustainability) by making what are called \u201cconscious choices\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The team will rely on these 18 key factors to reduce complexity and make conscious choices in an agile way.<\/h4>\n

These \u201cconscious choices\u201d will allow your team, in a way, to find a form of consistency and alignment between the short term and the long term<\/strong> which allows it to navigate this complexity to adapt to its environment and evolve sustainably.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is precisely what characterizes and differentiates sustainable teams: it's their ability to constantly \u201cpivot\u201d in the present to quickly adapt to changes in their environment while avoiding making overly short-term decisions that could be counterproductive in the long term.<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Here are 3 main points to remember about sustainable teams:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Sustainable teams act in the long term, in accordance with their fundamental intentions and values.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Sustainable teams consciously choose to co-create value with their stakeholders and their entire ecosystem.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Sustainable teams are always aware of the long-term effect of their choices on the health and performance of the organization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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To access this complete online training program \"Sustainable Teams and the 18 Factors \" it's here:<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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