Team Coaching
Team Coaching is considered the best tool to achieve quick and sustainable improvement.
What is Team Coaching
Coaching is about having a vision and building on potential. It is about working out what you want and then systematically achieving that through creating new goals. With coaching there is a purpose resulting in the team member setting goals to develop skills, enhance performance and/or develop personally and professionally. Coaching looks to the future to embrace change and allows individuals to grow through it. It facilitates a shift in attitude and perspective and enhances emotional intelligence. Coaching can become a positive culture in an organisation – “simply the way we do things around here”.
Individuals within the organisation and the organisation itself benefit from team coaching. Coaching allows people to shine!
Why Team Coaching works
Team Coaching works because there is consistency and commitment to continuous personal and professional growth based on mutual respect and trust between coach and coachee. Outcomes are measurable; Goals are reached; New goals set; Change embraced; Productivity rises; Self-confidence improves; Communication enhanced; Staff are happier and more satisfied and they appreciate the investment made in them.
Developing Successful Teams
Teams are motivated when they believe that what they are doing is worthwhile, when individuals within the team are in control of achieving their goals, and when they’re all appreciated and/or acknowledged for their contribution.
Teams are also much more successful when they understand each individual’s personality, have a common purpose and understand each person's motivation for doing the job.
Through working with clients one-on-one and through workshops with the whole team (which can result in a Vision Statement for that team, and a set of goals for them to achieve) the team works more closely together, improves their relationships with each other, identifies personal and workplace values and improves productivity.
Communication, or lack of it, can cause a huge number of problems including conflict within teams. "Quantum Key” process has extensive experience in communication and conflict resolution strategies to positively shape work teams.
Tools in coaching using “Quantum Key”
The "Quantum Key" process is extremely varied within the coaching model and draws on many years of highly successful communication strategies and may incorporate Meta Programs, DISC Analysis, Bar-On EQi, Myers Briggs Type Indicator® and NLP (neuro linguistic programming).
What difference does coaching make in the workplace?
Better communication, greater co-operation, increased self-awareness, less conflict, overall improvement in performance, reduced turnover of staff.
The primary reasons for introducing Team Coaching
The primary reasons for introducing Team Coaching are to accelerate:
- Improvement in performance
- Changes in behaviour
- Overcoming personal shortcomings
Typical Steps in Team Coaching
Five Types of Team Coaching
The approach to Executive and Team Coaching focuses primarily on achieving improved personal and team effectiveness. This is undertaken by applying a tried and proven methodology to fast track executives in their performance, skills and personal development.
The five types Team Coaching are:
- Coaching for skills focuses on the team's development needs (eg leadership and communication skills.)
- Coaching for team performance focuses more broadly on a team's effectiveness
- Coaching for development focuses on the team's new approach and direction
- Coaching for team invigoration focuses on how to encourage new ideas and then get the team necessary to translate and evaluate them to see if these would be best ways to achieve the team goals.
- Coaching for team creativity is an integral part of team building. It rquires the efforts, contributions and coordination of the team if an idea is to be successfully implemented. Looking at the organisation as a whole, the team creativity principle stresses that everyone has in some way a contribution towards achieving the set objectives.
Some areas frequently dealth with the team coaching include:
- Communication skills - listening, reflecting endorsing, supportive communication skills, giving feedback;
- Develop Teamwork skills
- Team building spirit and support
- Time Management
- Performance Criteria's
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