Team Coaching
Team coaching helps team members find ways to work better together and to appreciate each other’s unique contributions. It results in less conflict, better working relationships and the synergistic type of ‘magic’ that has a team be able to produce extraordinary results and achieve what seems impossible.
This happens through focusing the team on authentic shared goals and on what they can create when they actually have a stake in the results. It is essential to have a shared vision/goal based on the team’s values. When people have their eye on a goal that they believe in, interpersonal challenges take a back seat and become easier to deal with.
Team building can be successful with teams that are just forming, as well as teams that have been functioning for years.
This is intensive work and is called for when a team wants to be able to:
▪ Produce more with less friction
▪ Deal with organizational change effectively
▪ Explore and leverage the unique strengths and capabilities of team members
▪ Be able to really talk to each other, have difficult conversations when necessary, and give clear directions
▪ Develop team leadership skills
Team coaching may be called for when:
▪ A new project team is forming, during implementation, or when they hit a roadblock
▪ Role changes are needed because of organizational change
▪ Teams members are operating in silos instead of coming together as a team
▪ The team is virtual and having trouble communicating
▪ The team wants to move from ordinary to extraordinary
Team Coaching sessions may be held as intensive 0.5 - 3 day in-person offsite programs with follow-up individual coaching, or in shorter sessions scheduled over several months, either in person or by phone.
What team coaching can do in all these cases is to re-energise, refocus and create collective habits of success.
Team coaching helps team members find ways to work better together and to appreciate each other’s unique contributions. It results in less conflict, better working relationships and the synergistic type of ‘magic’ that has a team be able to produce extraordinary results and achieve what seems impossible.
This happens through focusing the team on authentic shared goals and on what they can create when they actually have a stake in the results. It is essential to have a shared vision/goal based on the team’s values. When people have their eye on a goal that they believe in, interpersonal challenges take a back seat and become easier to deal with.
Team building can be successful with teams that are just forming, as well as teams that have been functioning for years.
This is intensive work and is called for when a team wants to be able to:
▪ Produce more with less friction
▪ Deal with organizational change effectively
▪ Explore and leverage the unique strengths and capabilities of team members
▪ Be able to really talk to each other, have difficult conversations when necessary, and give clear directions
▪ Develop team leadership skills
Team coaching may be called for when:
▪ A new project team is forming, during implementation, or when they hit a roadblock
▪ Role changes are needed because of organizational change
▪ Teams members are operating in silos instead of coming together as a team
▪ The team is virtual and having trouble communicating
▪ The team wants to move from ordinary to extraordinary
Team Coaching sessions may be held as intensive 0.5 - 3 day in-person offsite programs with follow-up individual coaching, or in shorter sessions scheduled over several months, either in person or by phone.
What team coaching can do in all these cases is to re-energise, refocus and create collective habits of success.