Blog Bite: What Is Team Coaching?

Last week, we looked at Group Coaching.  Today, we’ll explore Team Coaching: a coaching technique that helps an intact team accomplish its goals faster than they could have without a trained coach.

Team Coaching contains all of the same benefits as Group Coaching.  But a key difference is that, in Group Coaching, the participants may not know each other beforehand and will likely not all stay in contact after the Group Coaching sessions end.  With Team Coaching, the participants have known each other before and will continue to work together once the Team Coaching is completed.  

As such, Team Coaching helps an intact team work better together for the long-term.  It also helps the team know how to leverage each other’s strengths and create systems to make better decisions in the future.  Teams gain innovative ideas on how to accomplish the team’s purpose through the goals it’s currently pursuing.

Team Coaching is designed to increase team members’ trust for one another, their engagement with the team and overall organization, and their overall effectiveness.  Team Coaching moves them to the next level.  If they are already a High Performing Team (HPT), then Team Coaching refines them to continue their ascension.  If they are currently not a HPT, Team Coaching is a key tool that helps them get there faster.

Team coaching is designed by the coach to be dynamic and highly interactive.  You’ll know you have a great team coach when you gain solid collaboration, even outside of coaching sessions.  A great team coach should also ask questions that the team may not have considered, leading to problem-solutions they had not previously thought of.

A monthly investment of an hour makes a significant difference in how the team reaches its potential and far exceeds expectations.

Chew On This:

  • What do you long to see your team accomplish?

Ryan C. Bailey & Associates is an organizational effectiveness firm focused on equipping leaders to develop in-demand high-performing teams to increase the health and effectiveness of the greater organization.

*This blog is an amalgamation of a few different clients.  No client is being singled out.