Team Coaching: Achieve Goals you Thought were Impossible

Team Coaching is a new process that can kick-start work-groups into high-performance teams.

Leaders want to:

• stretch an already high performing team,
• turn around a team that is underperforming or stuck,
• or assimilate a new leader so they have a strong start with teams that are weary of too many changes.

What if your team could set its own stretch goal and achieved breakthrough results in record time? 

That's now possible with a new team coaching program we're introducing - Team Coaching. It's a unique process that utilizes the harmony and synergy of a team, team leader, and a coach working together to create amazing results.

A Program for the Leader, Team, and a Coach

Team Coaching is a proven team coaching process designed to transform teams and their leaders through a development process - one that goes beyond the typical two-day team building event.  The program is presented as an organization game oriented around a stretch goal that is meaningful to the organization's success. It also includes partnership with a coach who provides coaching skills to the team leader as they work together to guide the team into extraordinary performance.  The program is implemented over the course of sixteen weeks with a 1-2 day kickoff seminar. There are four phases of the Team Coaching program:

Phase 1 - Pre-workshop preparation: Coaching the team leader and interviewing each team member to set the stage for the program.

Phase 2 - Kick-off workshop: The team creates their own game plan oriented around an extraordinary goal.

Phase 3 - Weekly coaching sessions: Team members provide progress updates and learn to support teammates. 

Phase 4 - Review of team accomplishments and its transformation: The team takes time to assimilate learning and celebrate their wins and their new level of communication.

Coaching is the Unique Twist

Coaching is the most significant and unique component of this program. Teams often leave a team-building event with a lot of enthusiasm but no real understanding of what it takes to change behaviors or go beyond their habitual daily activities. They go back to work and it is business as usual. This program will change that typical team training behavior. During this process, the coach works as a partner, often giving the team leader reminders and new language for communicating celebrations equally as well as challenges. The coach also requests the team determine ways to overcome their barriers to success. The coaching provides momentum and a complete framework for each phase of the game. Through this model the team is in a constant state of maximizing the adult learning processes – observing and adjusting behaviors and actions to ensure the success of the game.

What Results Can I Expect?

The key objective of Team Advantage is to provide a complete framework for driving team performance resulting in a transformational experience. Other objectives include:

• Coach the team leader with advanced coaching skills

• Provide a forum for real conversations, truth telling, and surfacing conflict as a natural part of team development and essential to the creative process

• Have each team member take responsibility for the team win everyone wins, or no one wins

• Leave the team with a replicable process for continuing to grow together as they accomplish their potential

What kinds of teams or leaders can benefit from this team building idea?

• Executive teams seeking new direction

• Sales teams

• Global teams

• High performance teams needing to stretch

• High potentials

• Newly appointed managers

• Marketing and product development teams

• Low performing teams needing a turn-around effort