BEN COUPLAND’S PERSONAL BLOG
Welcome…
I'm Ben Coupland, an entrepreneur, writer and DJ based in the Yorkshire (UK).
I love music, run my own business, and write. You’ll find allsorts of different content here.
Feel free to read, comment, adapt, and plagiarise to your heart’s content. As the great Bruce Lee said:
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own”
ARTICLES
Nature's Blueprint: How to Build High-Performing, Adaptive Teams
I dropped a new Enso blog this morning:
https://www.ensotalent.co.uk/articles/adaptiveteams
In today’s business world, building a team that can seamlessly adapt, innovate, and collaborate is essential. But traditional, rigid structures often fall short. In this article, I'm looking to nature for inspiration.
Come with me as we explore how nature’s most resilient systems can teach us powerful lessons on team dynamics.
22nd October 2024
I dropped a new Enso Talent blog this morning:
https://www.ensotalent.co.uk/articles/adaptiveteams
In today’s business world, building a team that can seamlessly adapt, innovate, and collaborate is essential. But traditional, rigid structures often fall short. In this article, I'm looking to nature for inspiration.
Come with me as we explore how nature’s most resilient systems can teach us powerful lessons on team dynamics.
🧩 Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll learn:
🐙 Adapt like Octopuses: Encourage autonomy while maintaining alignment with larger goals.
🐜 Communicate like Ants: Establish clear, open channels for continuous information flow.
🪸 Specialise like the Portuguese Man o' War: Leverage unique strengths to create organisational synergy.
🐦 Coordinate like Starlings: Foster intuitive, real-time collaboration.
🐧 Care like Penguins: Build a culture of care, resilience, and trust.
Ready to see how these natural behaviours can transform your team? 🌍🌱 Read on to discover how you can create a truly dynamic, effective, and resilient team to support your talent ecosystem.
mY wORKSTREAMS
I have a bunch of interests and projects that I’m working on right now.
You can find out more about them here.
Freelance DJ for hire, rocking parties and events since 1998!!
Values-based Talent Acquisitions Consultancy specialising in holistic talent ecosystem design
A brand new adventure - coming soon
““Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.””