Team coaching, sometimes referred to as team development, typically has three important aspects:
- Improving team performance
- Improving team collaboration or teamwork (both inside and outside the team) in order to improve performance and enjoyment
- Improved individual performance and engagement toward the team’s goal
Our team coaching programmes are often based around the ‘6 Steps to a High Performing Team’ model developed by Roarty and Toogood and can help a leadership team do the following:
Purpose
- Clarify the purpose of the team and build a team commitment to this
People
- Build rapport, trust and strong relationships within the team and beyond
- Increase the team awareness of individual strengths in the team
- Clarify individual roles in the team
Priorities
- Identify the shared goals of the team and how these will be measured
- Work with stakeholders to precisely define its desired outcomes and measures of success
Plan
- Create a clear plan for addressing the priorities
- Understand how best to play to individual and team strengths in the achievement of goals
Performing
- Define the kind of behaviours in the team that will contribute to its success
- Develop effective team-working processes internally and externally
- Communicate effectively across the team
- Value the diversity of the team and manage differences well
- Build a strengths focused culture in the team that celebrates the team’s successes and strengths, and uses the resulting energy to fix any important weaknesses, as well as to build further strength
Performance Plus
- Ensure that the team continually learns from what it does in order to improve its ability to deliver on task and enjoy its work
