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Are you supporting teams and leaders going through change?
Or operating in a VUCAH* environment?
A few insights you might appreciate from my book
Team Coaching for Organisational Development
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Involve all stakeholder groups at the very beginning of the journey and throughout. Their input increases their understanding, empathy and advocacy.
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Team coaching and development builds team and individual resilience, which facilitates more team development. Useful in a VUCAH* world!
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The benefits of team coaching and development in this case rippled across the entire organisation, and staff and external stakeholders benefitted as well.
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*VUCAH = volatile, unpredictable, complex, ambiguous, hyperconnected
Team coaching approaches for non-coaches!
In this article published by Coaching at Work, a leading UK coaching publication, I provide eight team coaching approaches that HR professionals, change managers, consultants and team leaders can apply when working with and in teams.
Not everyone has or should undertake formal team coaching training. Yet utilising team coaching skills at times is beneficial for all.
Read more about ways to apply a team coaching approach to your work with and in teams by downloading the resource below.
I noticed changes in how the team were talking to each other, how they were getting along, and how they were interacting with stakeholders.
Michael, team leader
It is interesting looking back and realising that the change we wanted to see across the function we led came from us – starting with ourselves.
Jane, team member
Why team coaching is an effective organisational development tool
In this article published by CIPD's People Management magazine (the leading Human Resources magazine in the UK) I talk about 5 ways team coaching can be used as a proactive development tool:
1. Building high performing teams and leaders
2. Enabling strategy and change
3. Increasing team resilience
4. Accelerating culture change
5. Creating a positive ripple effect across an organsiation
Read more about the application of team coaching as an organisational development tool by downloading the resource below.
How to bring team coaching to life
In this practical article published by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), I talk specifically to professionals working within organisations wanting to add team coaching tools to their toolkits.
I include practical tips for working with teams, team leaders, and how to maintain a team coaching mindset by focusing on yourself as a tool for change.
Read more about practical tools you can apply by downloading the resource below.
Being helpful is not always the best thing in the long run – teaching a team to fish is more beneficial than giving them fish.
Helen Zink, team coach
The critical role I played in high performance team coaching and change is one of the most significant things I learnt from this experience.
Michael, team leader
Critical role of the leader in change
In this article published by the Association for Coaching (CA) in the Coaching Perspectives magazine, I talk about the important role the team leader plays in team coaching engagements.
Roles might include - sponsoring and enabling the work in the first place, hands on involvement during team coaching session, role modelling, and facilitating collaborative ways of working.
Read more about the importance of leadership by downloading the resource below.
Teaming for change!
In this article published by the Global Change Management Institute (CMI), I talk about teaming as a useful lever to enable change, bring strategy to life, and build collective resilience. I argue that organisations could leave effective teaming to chance, or instead consciously invest in it.
How can teaming be activated? Michael, a team leader I worked with, sponsored an extensive team coaching programme.
Read more about teaming and team coaching as change enablers by downloading the resource below.
This was not a stand-alone team-building exercise. It was complete reengineering of how we operated as a team, as leaders, as a system and as people.
Michael, team leader