High-performing teams don’t happen by accident.
Teams are fundamental to organizational performance, yet teams often end up as a collection of individuals with individual accountability rather than being cohesive and high performing.
Getting to high performance requires identifying how the team needs to work in practice. Team coaching enables a team to adopt the practices and behaviors that enable the sum to be far more than the parts.
Benefits of team coaching
Team coaching provides the structure, support, and empowerment that allows teams to learn, practice, and integrate new behavior. Coaching works because it actively, intentionally, and consciously helps teams and team members integrate new practices over time. Benefits include:
Greater trust
Focus on results
Positive accountability
Improved conflict management
Stronger commitment
Individual and group development
A team coaching engagement
Team coaching involves a skilled leadership coach working with a group of executives or managers. This type of engagement may involve several components delivered over months, depending on the goals of the team, feedback from the team leader, and organizational context. For example, a team coaching engagement may include:
- Individual interviews with team members
- 2-4 team meeting observations
- Advisory calls with the team leader
- 2-4 team development workshops (1/2 or full day)
- Individual and team assessments
Nebo team coaches
Our team coaches excel in both individual and team coaching. They have been selected for additional qualities and experiences that make them highly effective team coaches. These attributes include:
- Taking a whole systems approach
- Having the courage to communicate honestly and directly
- Being present and adaptive to the emerging needs of the team
- Providing safety and structure for learning
- Demonstrating the skills the team is working on
Getting real work done, better.
Team coaching gives team members the opportunity to grow together. And, by working with the team in the context of everyday challenges, the coach can introduce new ideas, practices, and behaviors, as well as identify opportunities to improve team performance.
Beginning
Establish engagement and prepare team for coaching.
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- Complete interviews with team members
- Understand organizational context
- Align engagement with team leader’s expectations
- Connect team coaching to real work and goals of team
- Identify and introduce team coach
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Middle
Develop practices, behaviors, and awareness to be a high-performing team.
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- Observe 2-4 team meetings
- Gain meaningful and actionable feedback from team coach
- Apply targeted models and frameworks
- Complete 2-4 team development workshops
- Complete team assessments
- Gather on-going feedback from team leader
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End
Ensure team can own and sustain progress.
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- Assess progress
- Seek feedback from team leader
- Identify next steps and future development opportunities
- Establish supporting resources
- Gather engagement feedback
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