{"id":8034,"date":"2022-04-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8034"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:11:38","slug":"how-can-you-better-support-the-subcultures-within-your-teams","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/how-can-you-better-support-the-subcultures-within-your-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Better Support the Subcultures Within your Teams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1372415482-How-can-you-better.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                1 Apr 2022                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Articles<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">How Can You Better Support the Subcultures Within your Teams?<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category <\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/human-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Human Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/leadership-culture-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leadership &amp; Culture<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share <\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/how-can-you-better-support-the-subcultures-within-your-teams\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/how-can-you-better-support-the-subcultures-within-your-teams\/&#038;text=How Can You Better Support the Subcultures Within your Teams?\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: How Can You Better Support the Subcultures Within your Teams?. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/how-can-you-better-support-the-subcultures-within-your-teams\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/how-can-you-better-support-the-subcultures-within-your-teams\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p>A Human Performance article brought to you by our Main Partners<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Keiser_Main_Logo_Red.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By Sarah Evans<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening\/reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/keiser-podcast-how-leaders-can-overcome-resistance-to-change\/\">Keiser Podcast: How Leaders Can Overcome Resistance to Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/how-to-create-energy-in-athletes-performing-under-great-scrutiny\/\">How to Create Energy in Athletes Performing Under Great Scrutiny<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Framing the topic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was session two of our new Performance Support Series, which focused on exploring the topic of \u2018Making Wellbeing A Core Component Of Your Organisational Culture\u2019, led by Dr Meg Popovic. In the last session, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/leaders-performance-support-series-making-wellbeing-a-core-component-of-your-organisational-culture\/\">Meg explored culture, wellbeing and learning through an organisational \/ systems lens<\/a>. In this session we delved into the \u2018Team of Teams\u2019 phase of Meg\u2019s framework and the thinking of relational intelligence through subcultural understanding. There is one more session to follow, and across all of the sessions, we will look to explore three questions: how do you see? What do you see? How do you use what you see to make it better?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a \u2018subculture\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commonalities individuals share with one another \u2013 guidelines of social behaviour, overarching values that guide and reflect behaviour, known symbols (to the people within) and modes of operation that convey meaning to persons in shared system<\/li>\n<li>A smaller, more manageable unit of that culture as a whole, and differs from parent culture by embracing certain attributes. Thus, there are clear differences and specific commonalities between subcultural norms, values in the broader culture.<\/li>\n<li>Individuals of a subculture are socialised to adopt cultural definitions and perspectives, and to assert cultural identity and sense of community. They validate identity from each other and present themselves to the external society.<\/li>\n<li>Within a subculture there are varying degrees of commitment to the core of subcultural identity.<\/li>\n<li>Individuals who express high level of commitment are known as the \u2018ideal type\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Subcultural criteria creates feeling of belonging and shared commonality. It also defines boundaries between insiders and those on the periphery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How does this work in high performance sport?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to design a new role, and have it contribute to something you\u2019re already doing, how do you know what is possible and how do you know it will work? Ask yourself, what is the outcome I \/ you \/ we want to seek?<\/p>\n<p>Success in this is when the leader hits the mark on the programme or process of the subculture. Failure, or when it falls flat, is when you\u2019ve missed something or missed the mark within the subculture.<\/p>\n<p>Meg Popovic: \u2018Today we become team of team ethnographers tasked with investigating staff subcultures using this framework\u2019:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How do you see?<\/li>\n<li>What do you see?<\/li>\n<li>How do you use what you see to make it better?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What is Relationship Systems Intelligence?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to interpret oneself as an expression of the system.<\/li>\n<li>What happens is not only personal but it also belongs to the system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The &#8216;third entity&#8217;<\/strong>: Imagine each staff system is a living organism, a collection of parts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a life of itself, an identity that people feed into.<\/li>\n<li>The essence that emerges as an expression of the relationship or system \u2013 the voice of the system<\/li>\n<li>What is created as a function of interactions (experiences, events, behaviours etc.) in a relationship or system \u2013 the space between and among people.<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018more\u2019 in the <em>more than the sum of the parts. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Group exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Pick TWO staff departments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: Subcultural analysis. Explore subcultures of two sub groups, think about the following for each sub group.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>SKILLS: 1-2 capacities to be great at tasks in role<\/li>\n<li>QUALIFICATIONS: Professional and education to obtain roles in department.<\/li>\n<li>TIME: Busiest? Most free? Most stressful?<\/li>\n<li>LONGEVITY: Length of time working for Club?<\/li>\n<li>COLLECTIVE HISTORY: Describe the department 10 years ago?<\/li>\n<li>PASSION: What are they most passionate about?<\/li>\n<li>CREATIVE: If you could give this department a song, what would it be?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>The shadow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The framework that is dragged behind, that which is in the background, seen or unseen, acknowledged or not acknowledged, but there is gold in there too.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the growth process is shining light on the dark parts, and not being ashamed of those dark parts or making them wrong, but instead bringing them in and integrating them. This can happen on an individual level or on a group level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Deeper subcultural work \u2013 ask the following questions for the same two sub groups.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>KNOWLEDGE: What is the wisdom this group holds for the club?<\/li>\n<li>STATUS: How is success gauged within this group? What makes someone an outsider in this group?<\/li>\n<li>SHADOW: What are a few qualities within this staff group&#8217;s collective shadow?<\/li>\n<li>CONFLICT: What is the DREAM BEHIND THE COMPLAINT within the broader club environment?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Task before next session: <\/strong>Next Level Leadership \u2013 The Wellbeing 1%<\/p>\n<p>Do one small thing for each department (or someone in the department) that honours who they are. Recall the dream behind the complaint, and think about what would connect with them. It doesn\u2019t have to be a grand gesture, just something small, but we all know we operate in a world where the 1 per cent matters. 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