Teams are individuals operating under the same system and for systemic change to be enabled it requires the team environment to be one of trust, openness, skills development and the joint capacity for listening, thinking, reflection and feedback. Teams are groups of people who are aligned and headed to a common goal or outcome usually under the guidance of a leader.
The work and capacity of teams to effectively and respectfully interact is enabled by a Thinking Environment (ref: Nancy Kline).
Effective team development allows team members to share concerns and fears and to work with constructive, compassionate challenge.
The work and capacity of teams to effectively and respectfully interact is enabled by a Thinking Environment (ref: Nancy Kline).
Effective team development allows team members to share concerns and fears and to work with constructive, compassionate challenge.
Team Coaching enables the team to:
Team coaching is particularly effective when:
- Develop a climate of trust and safety, conducive to collective learning. Team members learn to have open dialogue, to build deeper levels of trust and higher quality of collaboration
- Gain greater clarity, coherence and consistency around priorities – what’s most important for the team to achieve collectively and how does this relate to their shared sense of purpose.
- Recognise and value the strengths of each team member
- Develop non judgment behaviours and resilience as a team
- Explore what authenticity and working with purpose means to individual team members in the workplace, so the team can work flexibly, value and embrace difference
- Mindfully manage conflict as it arises in task, process and relationship
- Work collaboratively and co-creatively with the external demands – other parts of the organisation, the stakeholders, the buyers of the products and services
- Develop the capacity of group observation and feedback.
Team coaching is particularly effective when:
- A new team is being formed or a new strategy is to be developed.
- When reflection and evaluation has led the team to agree that they want to find a more engaged and productive way forward, so that an established team can step up, energise, focus and create new behaviours for success and well-being.
- A high performing team wants to recognise the ways they achieve results and explore excellence.