{"id":8819,"date":"2025-12-18T08:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/customer-stories\/how-coop-leaders-and-teams-built-a-more-conscious-collaboration-culture\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:13:35","slug":"how-coop-leaders-and-teams-built-a-more-conscious-collaboration-culture","status":"publish","type":"customer-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/customer-stories\/how-coop-leaders-and-teams-built-a-more-conscious-collaboration-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"How COOP Leaders and Teams Built a More Conscious Collaboration Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Owned 100% by Estonian consumers, Coop Eesti Kesk\u00fchistu is the country&#8217;s oldest and largest cooperative retail group. <\/p>\n\n<p>Coop is one of Aeternum\u2019s long-term development partners. Together, we support leaders and teams through practical training and supervision programmes \u2014 strengthening collaboration, supporting people\u2019s growth and fostering shared purpose across the organisation. <\/p>\n\n<p>2024\u20132025. we delivered an extensive development programme involving store managers, office and logistics teams, as well as regional leaders from the Tartu area.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Training Themes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Leading Conversations and Giving Feedback<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Successful Change Implementation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shared Goals and Moving Toward Them Together<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>To strengthen leaders\u2019 ability to hold developmental one-to-one conversations and give constructive feedback, while supporting teams in building a shared mindset for implementing change and achieving common goals.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Participants developed practical skills for conducting effective conversations and delivering motivational feedback.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increased awareness of emotional regulation and the fundamentals of calm, constructive communication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teams clarified their shared goals and identified collaborative ways to achieve them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leaders gained a clearer understanding of how to involve and support people during change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A stronger sense of unity and collective responsibility emerged across the organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tools and Methods Used<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A one-day leadership training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Group supervision sessions (4 \u00d7 3-hour meetings)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Small-group exercises, case discussions, role-plays, practical assignments, simulations, reflection work, self-analysis, vision-building techniques and \u201c+1 steps\u201d for applying change in everyday work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owned 100% by Estonian consumers, Coop Eesti Kesk\u00fchistu is the country&#8217;s oldest and largest cooperative retail group. Coop is one of Aeternum\u2019s long-term development partners. Together, we support leaders and teams through practical training and supervision programmes \u2014 strengthening collaboration, supporting people\u2019s growth and fostering shared purpose across the organisation. 2024\u20132025. we delivered an extensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8820,"template":"","field":[478],"class_list":["post-8819","customer-stories","type-customer-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/8819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/customer-stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"field","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeternum.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/field?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}