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Psychological safety in team coaching

Team coaching isn’t like any other development that an individual will have experienced.  The agenda is co-created by the team and the coach and there isn’t any taught content.  Team members may have worked with (some of) the team for some time, but they won’t necessarily be ready, willing or able to say what is

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How to prepare a team to be coached – hints and tips by Georgina Woudstra

Team coaching is a two-way street. And while the coach may be experienced, well prepared and enthusiastic, if the team isn’t ready to be coached then it could all come to nothing. An important step at the start of any team coaching engagement is therefore to ensure the team is ready to be coached. I

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The team experience

The team experience is crucial nowadays. More and more of today’s work is undertaken in teams.  In fact, the Harvard Business Review suggests that collaborative activities have increased by 50% or more in the past twenty years.  I bet you recognise that, given the amount of meetings in your diary these days!  It makes sense

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Team Coaching Case Studies

Recently, I blogged about how team coaching is different to 1-1 coaching and how it is similar to 1-1 coaching.  I’ve also talked about the team experience. Let’s now look at some examples of the outcomes in these team coaching case studies. Case studies help see the theory working in practice. Case study 1: Team

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How is team coaching different from 1-1 coaching?

We’ve looked at how the principles and skills of 1-1 coaching transfer into team coaching; but there are differences. The most obvious? There are multiple people to work with.  That adds complexity to work with group dynamics, as people try to survive and belong so are careful about what they say and who they say

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How is team coaching similar to 1-1 coaching?

I’ve written a lot about 1-1 coaching, whether that is by an external coach, an internal one or a leader as coach.  1-1 coaching has a big impact on the individual, building their thinking muscles and encouraging them to experiment with new behaviours which create a ripple effect on the people around them.  But sometimes

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Team Coaching

My next series of coaching blogs is going to focus specifically on team coaching. Over the coming weeks I’m going to discuss: What is team coaching? How coaching a team is similar to 1-1 coaching? How coaching a team is different to 1-1 coaching? The team experience. And then I’ll finish this series with some

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Need to Push Decision-making Downwards?

Why Build a Coaching Culture? Ask yourself these questions… Do you ever notice yourself feeling overwhelmed by the amount of work you need to get done, with not enough time to get it done?  Do you ever notice how you go straight in to problem solving mode when a team member asks you a question?

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