Helping teams improve collaboration
Team Coaching is one of the fastest growing disciplines in the coaching profession and is becoming increasingly important in organizations, including private corporations, government agencies and non-profits.
Team Coaching empowers teams to work toward continued high performance and ongoing development, requiring innovation, flexibility, adaptability and goal alignment – all traits that coaching helps support.
ICF’s Team Coaching provides a clear, concise definition for Team Coaching – partnering in a co-creative and reflective process with a team on its dynamics and relationships in a way that inspires them to maximize their abilities and potential in order to reach their common purpose and shared goals. This model is designed to build upon and integrate with the ICF Core Competencies in team coaching contexts.
What are the likely benefits to my Team?
Team coaching helps your team:
- Navigate the challenges of today’s hyper-complex and fast-changing world
- Develop better processes of decision-making, communicating and organizing work
- Work more effectively with other teams
- Develop greater clarity of purpose
- Become “future fit”
What would the Process look like?
There are broadly 5 steps in the process:
1) Initial engagement to understand the situation and ensure a fit with the Team Coaching
process
2) Some discovery discussions with stakeholders, team leaders & team members which may
include completing a Diagnostic to gather data on the team’s current performance
3) Working with the whole team and establish the objectives and ground rules of the team
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4) Partnering with the team to achieve those objectives using several Team Coaching frameworks and methodology
5) Completion and review of the work against the initial objectives