What is Team Coaching?
The Complexity of Teams
If coaching is about helping an individual to be more effective by helping them to think, then team coaching is about using coaching teachniques to improve team performance. However, if individuals can be complex, then a team of individuals all interacting with each other (as well as with other people outside of the team) is an order of magnitude more complex. So Team Coaching draws on techniques and models from areas such as organisational behaviour to analyse team conditions and to help the coach to work with the team leader to structure an intervention or series of interventions to drive productive change.
Some Team Coaching Concepts
Social capital
Leader led or self governning?
Leader led or self governning?
You spend all that money on human capital by hiring great people. So how conciously do you manage your social capital - the links between individuals and teams?
Leader led or self governning?
Leader led or self governning?
Leader led or self governning?
How much does the team govern itself for the day to day work? Or is the team leader spending their valuable time driving daily processes rather than designing the future?
Team dysfunctions
Leader led or self governning?
Healthy team functionality
You've probably read Lencioni's 2005 book on the subject. Those five team dysfunctions are easy to understand but do you check teams for them?
Healthy team functionality
Healthy team functionality
Healthy team functionality
Being more positive - the key components of healthy team functonality are well understood. And simple interventions are available to improve each facet.
The team process
Healthy team functionality
Creating or changing teams
A model you can even use to diagnose your own individual role. How do you get from what the stakeholders want the team to do, round to how the team executes. A real godsend to help a team understand themselves in complex organisations.
Creating or changing teams
Healthy team functionality
Creating or changing teams
We all know Tuckman's model but how often do we just set up or alter a team and expect it to perform immediately? Planning for and assisting teams to accelerate is crucial, especially for new leaders.