Why invest in team coaching?

When was the last time your team had a transformational conversation? The best teams know how to do this; how to speak, listen, and think together to bring out their best.

Whether it’s an executive team or a project team, organizations invest in and rely on teams for a simple reason: When they work well, teams are capable of making better decisions and accomplishing more than any individual alone.

Yet functioning as a team brings its own challenges – conflict, decision making, group think, organizational alignment, power dynamics, collective assumptions and blind spots. We can’t take a team’s ability to function for granted.

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
— Michael Jordan

What is team coaching?

As a coach, I partner with your team to bring awareness to how members are being — and in particular, to what may be assumed, reflexive, or habitual — and how they want or need to be in order to achieve their shared purpose in alignment with their values. By respecting and drawing out team members’ expertise and capabilities, coaching cultivates their agency, accountability, and collective identity.

Each coaching engagement is designed in consultation with the team’s sponsor, leader, and members to ensure relevance for the business and meet the team where they are.

Consider team coaching to:

• Support a new or re-structured team to navigate change, (re-)establish relationships, orient themselves to their roles and goals, and negotiate conflict and accountability
• Enable a team to see the benefits and costs of their patterns of interaction
• Re-energize an established team that has lost the wind in its sails
• Help any team more effectively address challenges and achieve its purpose

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