Team Coaching For Performance Improvement

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Team Coaching

Team coaching is usually undertaken in an organisational environment with the purpose of the performance improvement of working teams. The coaching itself may consist either of one to one coaching of members of a team or coaching the whole team at once, or a combination of the two.

This type of coaching can be an effective vehicle for clarifying team goals, establishing common ground between team members, recognising individuals’ values, needs and strengths and developing a cohesive way of working together.

In organisations where coaching is an established practice managers may see coaching as integral to developing their own teams on a regular basis. Larger organisations may employ their own their own internal coaches trained to fulfil this function.

External coaches can play an important part in coaching teams, providing independent and impartial facilitation, where an internal manager or coach may be too close to the issues therefore may not be able to effectively help the team progress.

Examples of when team coaching may be beneficial

To achieve performance improvement is an already effective team
A team needing to change its working practices and responsibilities in line with organisation changes
A dysfunctional team in which individual members need to work more effectively together
A team where communication between members needs to be improved
A new team of people working together for the first time

Recommended Further Reading

Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance & Purpose, New Edition – Sir John Whitmore, Brealey Publishing
Effective Coaching: Lessons from the Coach's Coach – Miles Downey, Orion Business
Coaching Your Employees (Better Management Skills) – N. Stimson, Kogan Page

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