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Team Coaching
Elements of the Journey
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Context is everything. Our approach is to understand your situation – goals, style, impediments, ambitions.
We then draw upon our experience to create a bespoke approach that may include some or all of the following:
- Diagnostics
- Interviews with the team leader, team members, stakeholders
- A soft or hard team launch
- Team coaching sessions calibrated to the cadence of the team project
- 1-1 coaching with the team leader and team members in the context of the team objective(s)
The Start Point
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Our start points are typically in one of 4 areas:
- Celebrating success – what has the team learned about task and process and how is this learning to be embedded for future team working.
- Setting the team up for success – are the essentials and enablers in place?
- Midpoint review – is the team on target? what needs to be done differently to ensure objectives are met?
- After action reviews at the end of key milestones to ensure learning is taken forward to the next stage of the project.
Real Time Learning Doing The Work
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The team task is the context for sustainable learning. We are well aware of a team leader’s presenting issues. Typically these might include improving communication, decision making, engagement or output. Our approach is to observe these processes in action and coach the team by creating awareness, enabling experimentation and embedding what is working in service of achieving the team’s objectives.
Benefits of Team Coaching
Emerging
Through our approach, we move from a more diagnostic approach to one where the team feels safe and confident to express themselves. Then the magic starts when all voices in the room emerge, perspectives are shared and new solutions and ways of working evolve.
Empowering
We see leadership as a team sport. We see the team leader as having a particular role in establishing the purpose for the team being together and then coaching the team through the duration of the project. We also see the opportunity for individuals to learn, build on their strengths and so develop their own leadership ability. Through doing the real work needed by the organisation, individuals become responsible for sharing their voice, offering suggestions and solutions and leading on aspects of the work – all to ensure the objectives are met in the timeframe required.
Enduring
Our view is that effective teamworking is increasingly required. Creating a safe space to make mistakes, experiment, and collectively learn and improve enables teams to transfer their way of teaming to other future projects.
Our Approach
We work with you in real time on real projects your team is working on. Our view is that the team is the client and that collectively it has the answers to how to achieve what is needed. That said the team may get stuck or team dynamics may get in the way or the team purpose changes. We see our role as noticing, intervening, supporting, encouraging in pursuit of the team’s objective. We believe the team has the answers and can simultaneously learn from what is going on to adopt different ways of working as needed to achieve their goals.
Our approach is bespoke to each situation. We may draw upon tools and techniques that get things started but as our relationship develops we see contact, nudges, observations key to enable teams to reflect and to enhance their ability to work out what needs to be done next and experiment. We aim to help teams transform into more cohesive units capable of achieving their highest potential.
How It Works?
Understand your context
We want to understand your team’s context. It might be the start of a major project or wanting to celebrate a team’s success or anything in between.
Recommending a course of action
Depending on the context, we develop an approach that aims to ensure the team is involved in the design of whatever is needed to ensure collaboration and sustainability.
Defining commitment
Team Coaching can include regular team check-ins to ensure progress, adjust strategies, and celebrate successes. It can also include 1-1s with the team leader or individuals in the context of the team project. Additionally it may include diagnostics in the form of setting up the conditions for success at the beginning of the team’s life cycle and doing pulse checks over the course of the team’s work together.