TEAM COACHING

Team Coaching can be defined as “enabling a team to function at more than the sum of its parts, by clarifying the team’s mission and improving its external and internal relationships.” It is distinct from coaching team leaders to manage their teams or coaching individuals in a group. The team itself is regarded as a unique, dynamic third entity with its own culture, rules and ways of behaving.

Team Coaching supports and enhances a team’s ability to achieve its business objectives by creating greater alignment, mutual accountability and commitment. We believe that team coaching is suitable for all teams throughout their life cycle, however team coaching can have particular benefit in the following instances: -

When teams are formed
When new members join an existing team
In the face of new challenges
In times of organisational change
When major events occur e.g. mergers, acquisitions, relocations, expansion, downsizing
If conflict becomes toxic

An important feature of team coaching is that the intervention occurs over an agreed time frame, thus accountability for the teams’ agreed action is built into the process. All team coaching interventions are unique and are designed in real time to coach the team as events unfold during the session.