Coaching a Team

This 10 page team coaching e-book gathers together the essential background information and tools needed for you to run coaching sessions with teams and deflect conflict.

This ebook will help you unlock true potential within a team, because you will be working with a group who already know each other.

Coaching teams can be an opportunity to unlock their true potential and normally starts with a request for help from a member of HR or the Manager / Team Leader. They will be able to provide you with a clear brief, or report that lists the current situation, any issues or challenges and why they feel this team needs additional help from a professional coach.

Being a coach allows you to ask the right questions, so use this opportunity to start building a connection and fully explore the following areas:

• Overall objectives from the coaching process
• The timeframe, budget and how success will be measured
• Why the team need external help and what support has already been provided
• Team dynamics and how they are perceived by others
• Your role and example approaches you could take
• Any success from similar work you have already completed

Points to consider:

• Approach coaching a team through collective motivation
• The team is a living system and has within it people who want to contribute and excel
• Gather team commitments and agree an action plan
• Organize half day coaching sessions to minimize scheduling issues
• Using benchmarking tools to measure changes in behavior, productivity and teamworking
• Call out any negative behavior or undelivered actions

Full content list:

What is team coaching?
Defining a team
Objectives for coaching a team
The team coaching process
Key stages

Your role in coaching a team
Coaching style
Co-developing solutions

Coaching tools
Strategic Questioning
Incorporating the GROW Model
Personality types
Traffic lights

Running a team meeting
Delegation of roles
How to successfully deflect conflict

Further reading:

• We are constantly adding content to the site, so please check out our on-line shop or read the blog posts written by our team of international coaches

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