Resources
for
Coaches &
Team Coaches & Supervisors
Are you coaching teams and leaders going through change?
Or dealing with a VUCA* environment?
A few insights you might apprecaite from my book
Team Coaching for Oraganisational Development
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Support the team and leader to create their own models and frameworks. This increases buy-in and recognises the unique characteristics of their environment and circumstances.
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There are advantages and disadvantages of an internal coach versus an external coach – it is not clear cut.
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Contract and continually re-contract expectations and roles with the team, Leader, co-coach, HR, and other relevant stakeholders in the system. Role clarity is critical.
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For more...
*VUCA = volatile, unpredictable, complex, ambiguous
Are you supervising Coaches & Team Coaches working with clients
going through change? Or dealing with a VUCA* environment?
A few insights you might apprecaite form my book
Team Coaching for Organisational Development
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The coach is part of the system and both impacts and is impacted by it.
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Everyone involved in supervision is part of the system too - via the coach.
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Coaches should tap into all support networks they have, professional and personal.
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*VUCA = volatile, unpredictable, complex, ambiguous
Being internal to an organisation is challenging for the one-to-one coach, but even more so to the internal team coach.
Prof David Clutterbuck
The ultimate in being an internal team coach
This article written by Prof David Clutterbuck talks about the case study used in my book and my experience as both an internal and external coach. He debates the pros and cons of each scenario, including:
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The limitations of an external coach supporting individual clients and teams between coaching sessions.
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An external coach's perception of what is happening in the client’s world is largely limited to their own observations in sessions and what the client chooses to tell them.
Read more about the debate by downloading the resource below.
A warning for coaches
We are part of the systems we work in whether we like it or not!
In this article I talk about the impact I had as a team coach on a client and their wider system, including:
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By biases around interventions used.
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Compensating for leadership and team vacuums.
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Tension my role created in team dynamics.
Read more about my unintentional impact and what I did to manage it
by downloading the resource below.
We bring our own ways of thinking, interpreting and communicating, and are biased in what we are studying, curious about or interested in.
These biases can have a positive or negative impact.
Helen Zink, Coach.
A critical part of our decision
to restructure was investing in culture change. Team coaching involved complete reengineering of how we operated as a team, as leaders, as a system, and as people.
Michael, the team leader
Team coaching as a change lever
In this article published by ICF Coaching World I talk about actively using team coaching as a change lever supporting our clients to:
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Accelerate change
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Enable strategy
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Foster individual and collective resilience
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Support wider organisational benefits
Read more about the befits of the tool by downloading the resource below.