Executive Coaching

Many of the core coaching skills used for 1-2-1 coaching are the same as those required for team coaching but with the added complexity of being one-to-many, rather than 1-2-1.

So, what is team coaching and what is it trying to achieve?

Just as 1-2-1 coaching’s purpose is the delivery of high-performing individuals, team coaching’s is to create high-performing teams.

The AoEC’s Systemic Team Coaching approach (in which I am qualified) involves five stages that a coach will facilitate the team through:

• Scoping and agreement: Agreeing how the coach, team, team leader and sponsor are going to work together. Agreeing how confidentiality will work for the team and developing an understanding of the team’s purpose and objectives.
• Inquiry and discovery: Carrying out 360 diagnostics on the team to collect input from the team and key stakeholder groups on how well the team understands its purpose and objectives, the relationships within the team and with key stakeholder groups and how well the team learns from its experiences.
• Developing agenda: Reviewing the diagnostics with the team to identify its strengths and development areas, which then sets the agenda for the work the coach will do with the team.
• Engagement and execution: Working through a series of team coaching sessions focusing on the development areas agreed upon. This may also be supported by 1-2-1 coaching with team members to support them individually to develop in parallel with the team development process.
• Review: Evaluating how coaching has developed the team to better achieve its purpose. This may include a repeat of some of the 360 diagnostics to gain key stakeholder groups' input into the review. 

It is the focus on the wider system (gained from key stakeholder groups feedback) that the team operates in, which gives this approach its name; Systemic Team Coaching.

I think we all need to ask ourselves, what do I know about climate change? How does it affect me? How does it affect my organisation, my customer base, etc? 

However, I am not sure that we are asking these and related questions.

So, my offer is that with every set of coaching sessions, everyone can book a free climate change topic of their choice.

Your coaching sessions are on the objectives you identify, plus you get to have One for the Planet at no extra charge, to look at your relationship with climate change; your fears, purpose, feelings and ideas as to what you or your organisation can do about the issue. You choose the objective; I offer the support.