Coaching programmes for teams

Coaching the Team
Focusing on raising performance of individuals and of the collective team.

“When you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary … but don’t count on it…”

J. Richard Hackman

Organisations seldom realise the full potential of their teams.

Teams frequently operate as a collection of high performing, high potential individuals focused more on their individual performance than their collective purpose.

This fails to unleash the collective intelligence and potential of the team and diminishes the team’s effectiveness.

This may resonate for teams in your organisation. It may be that the team hasn’t yet taken the time to invest in setting itself effectively up for success or because previous team building initiatives haven’t had a sustainable impact on the team’s collective performance.

Team coaching offers a sustainable and effective development solution. Coaching the team as a whole, in real time, focuses on raising performance of individuals for the benefit of the collective team. In this way, the team create more relevant and effective ways of working together and develop as a truly high performing team.

Coaching the team is most useful when:

The team changes in some way – a new leader is appointed, team members leave or join.
The team has a new growth opportunity or meets some kind of challenge, threat or crisis.
An underperforming team needs to challenge its ways of working and raise their game.
A high performing team wants to challenge itself to continually develop and be top of their leadership game.
The team needs to deepen their collaboration within the team and across and beyond the organisation.
The team wants to strengthen their ways of working so that they can succeed as a team even as they work apart.

We work with you to shape and design team coaching programmes that focus on your organisation’s needs.

Growing the team’s ability to learn and develop is at the heart of our ethos. We develop and sustain the individuals, team and the organisation’s capacity to thrive beyond external team coaching. We draw from a range of best practice models and experience to meet the particular needs of your organisation and team.

You can expect us to:

Spend time to understand the organisational context, culture and what’s prompting the need for development work.

Partner with your key sponsors, including the Team Leader, to explore their vision of success.

Partner with the team as a whole throughout – enabling them co-create their coaching agenda.

Draw from a range of diagnostic approaches to understand the ‘as is’.

Work with the team with an ‘outside in’ perspective, understanding their stakeholders, the systems they belong to.

Develop alignment and momentum internally around the organisations shared purpose, goals and ways of working.

Prepare the team leader and team to sustain a coaching ethos and capability beyond the team coaching programme.

We adapt in response to your specific organisation’s needs

While we have an established way of working with our clients, we adapt in response to your specific organisation’s needs. Features of a Team Coaching Programme would typically:

Coach the whole team together as our ‘client’.
Take place over a number of sessions that are spread over 9/12 months. These are usually ‘in person’, offsite or onsite, and can be virtual too.
Invite your team to build a coaching ethos that will sustain beyond the formal programme; using peer to peer coaching, the team strengthen their connections within the team and build their coaching capability.

Coaching a whole team is complex. In some circumstances, we will recommend two team coaching partners to work with your team. We can also provide coaching for individuals as and when that need arises.

We would love to hear from you!

Group Coaching

Coaching Programmes to multiple leaders in a group setting.

Individual Coaching

Working individually with a leader in a sustained way, focusing on their development goals.

Leadership Development

We develop and facilitate a range of leadership development programmes.

Coaching the Team