Team coaching
Whenever groups of people need to work together to achieve a common goal, I think of the core disciplines that Peter Senge writes about in The Fifth Discipline - The Art and Practice of a Learning Organization. I love what Senge says: "The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization."
What he puts forth contain the core of what is needed to continually expand capacity and nurture expansive patterns of thinking towards whatever it is that you consider to be the collective aspiration of your team, department or organization.
What he puts forth contain the core of what is needed to continually expand capacity and nurture expansive patterns of thinking towards whatever it is that you consider to be the collective aspiration of your team, department or organization.
Teams work when:
Teams work well together if they practice:
- Personal Mastery - People with a high level of personal mastery consistently recognize what matters most deeply to them and are committed to a continuous process of lifelong learning. They are the types of people I like referring to as restless and aware. These people yearn for self-actualization and strive towards making real the potential they know they have inside.
- Matching Mental Models - Senge refers to assumptions and generalizations as mental models. I can add distortions and deletions learned from NLP to the list. When teams match their mental models, what they really do is remove the barriers that keep them from fully engaging with what is real. It is a process of challenging personal limiting beliefs and expanding paradigms.
- Building Shared Vision - When there is genuine vision (as opposed to the jaded "vision statement"), people excel and learn because they have a sense of purpose and meaning in what they do. What is important is to align each individual's vision to this shared vision - this is not orchestrated via the framed word set in the manager's office - this happens via conversations, advocacy and enquiry. An unearthing process that allows genuine commitment to emerge through participation and engagement.
- Team Learning - In my training as trainer, I learned about "Group Think", when a group 'dumbs' down and their collective IQ becomes lower than the lowest individual's in the group. Teams that undermine collective learning, undermine individual learning also. When a team learns to up-scale their collective intelligence, individual development increases exponentially. This happens through intelligent dialogue, communication and recognition of collective patterns that can be surfaced and addressed.
- Systems Thinking - Business is a system and systems thinking is required for teams to understand the interrelated parts (including themselves) of the whole. Systems thinking allows for pattern-recognition and the identification of levers that could allow far-reaching changes to the whole.
How of team coaching
Team coaching can take the shape of group interventions to work towards matching mental models, building shared vision or team learning or one-on-one sessions to develop personal mastery and systems thinking.
The loose framework on which I hang my executive coaching program will create perspective on the process required to design an intervention to meet your requirements for one-on-one interventions.
Group sessions can be planned relative to budgetary, location, duration and other logistic allowances and will always consist of:
If you're interested in exploring possible options for engaging my services in a team coaching capacity - whether that be for group interventions or one-on-one development, click on the button below to make contact and set up a no-obligation exploration session.
The loose framework on which I hang my executive coaching program will create perspective on the process required to design an intervention to meet your requirements for one-on-one interventions.
Group sessions can be planned relative to budgetary, location, duration and other logistic allowances and will always consist of:
- Exploration meetings to discuss requirements and plan solutions.
- Pre-assessments and co-design of success criteria.
- Group sessions.
- De-briefing and reflection.
- Final report.
If you're interested in exploring possible options for engaging my services in a team coaching capacity - whether that be for group interventions or one-on-one development, click on the button below to make contact and set up a no-obligation exploration session.