Team Coaching Foundation Course

MODULE ONE FOUNDATIONS

This module is for people with a solid foundation of experience and expertise in one-to-one coaching, who want to add team coaching to their portfolio. It aims to ensure competency and confidence in extending coaching approaches to helping teams become more effective and develop the capability to coach themselves. The context is teams in the workplace, with particular emphasis on executive teams and project teams, although the tools, techniques and theory also apply to other forms of team.

Day 1: Fundamentals

 Introduction to the concept: a historical and theoretical perspective

 The purpose of team coaching

 How teams evolve

 Models of team learning

 What helps and hinders team efficacy? The leader follower relationship.

 What do we mean by high performing team?

 Differences between individual coaching and team coaching. Identifying

team strengths and weaknesses.

 Key steps in the team coaching process – contracting, scoping,

developing the team’s capacity to coach itself

Day 2: Techniques and approaches

 Team coaching session dialogue: contracting, goal setting, defining the

issue, context, redefinition, seeking individual and collective mind-shift,

alternative ways forward, decisions, re-contracting

 Competencies of a team coach

 Behaviors of teams and team members. How to recognize and analyze

team dysfunction

 Principles of group dynamics

 Team identity

 Establishing and working with team purpose.

 Surfacing and managing conflicting agendas. Techniques for managing

team conflict

 Communication and networking

 Techniques to clarify and build alignment with team goals.

 Managing team motivation, temporal issues, creativity

Day 3: Developing a team coaching practice

 Raising the quality of team decision-making

 Improving team processes

 Aligning individual and collective development within a Team

Development Plan

 Ethical issues in team coaching

 Developing your team coaching brand and offering.

 Managing disengagement of the coaching relationship.