Team Coaching
Working in a team can be an awful experience, when your ideas were ignored and you felt degraded. It can also be an exhilerating experience, where the time flies by because you are having fun and everyone is focused on one goal.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Are you leading a highly cohesive team or a bunch of mavericks?
- Are there deep seated conflicts within the team that could impede on their effectiveness?
- Do they cooperate and readily help each other?
- Do they confront each other in an appropriate manner?
Exective Team Story
When I first started working with the CEO of a major bank, his team was threatening to revolt. An offsite was planned to go over strategies, but the team demanded the agenda be changed. I took them through a major upheaval where as a group, the confronted their boss about deals gone wrong and behaviors that were counter-productive. The team went through hell and back but came out on the other side. The bank is now growing, opening new branches and flourishing.
Team Coaching Process:
- Data Gathering and Evaluation - Evaluate current strengths and areas of growth as a basis for the team coaching goals
- Team Assessment - Use team leadership tools to evaluate the way the team works together
- First Learning Session - Sharing of the benchmarking and leadership assessment data
- Individual Coaching Sessions - Each leader receives a set number of coaching sessions
- Second Learning Session - Sharing of team insights and presentations on topic of mutual interest
- This process can go on as long as is desired
