5 Benefits That Team Coaching Can Have On An Organisation
“In our global highly complex world, the heroic leadership figure has increasingly become a relic.” – Manfred Kets De Vries
Team coaching is an approach that aims to help teams and boards to expand their collective capacity to enhance their value to stakeholders and to the organisation as a whole. Transformational leadership team coaching is the process of collectively engaging the commitment and participation of all major stakeholder groups to radical change in the context of shared purpose, values and vision.
Systemic team coaching is a powerful approach to help teams improve their performance and achieve their goals. This coaching approach focuses on the interdependent relationships and interactions within a team, as well as the team’s connection to its broader organizational context. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of systemic team coaching and discuss how it can be applied in practice.
Defining Team Coaching
According to Peter Hawkins and David Clutterbuck, Team Coaching is ‘Partnering with an entire team in an on-going relationship, for the purpose of collectively raising awareness and building better connections in the team’s internal and external systems and enhancing the team’s capability to cope with current and future challenges.’
Systemic team coaching is a coaching approach that focuses on the team as a whole, rather than on individual team members. The coach works with the team to help them understand their interdependent relationships, communication patterns, and how they interact with the larger organizational system. The goal of systemic team coaching is to improve team performance and effectiveness by addressing systemic issues that impact the team’s ability to work together.
Team Coaching is a way to embrace teams and stakeholders becoming more interconnected and organizations more matrixed in structure.
From the point of view of an organisation, team coaching has been proven to positively impact the bottom line. These benefits are also not limited to just financial aspects. In this article, we take a look at the benefits of team coaching, why it’s important, and how it can benefit your business in the long term.
The benefits of systemic team coaching
Systemic team coaching offers a range of benefits for teams, including:- Improved team performance: Systemic team coaching helps teams identify and address systemic issues that impact their performance. By improving communication, collaboration, and problem-solving, teams can work more effectively together to achieve their goals.
- Enhanced team cohesion: Systemic team coaching helps teams build stronger relationships and a shared sense of purpose. This can improve team cohesion, leading to better collaboration and cooperation.
- Increased accountability: Systemic team coaching can help teams develop a shared sense of accountability for their performance. By focusing on the team’s performance as a whole, rather than on individual team members, systemic team coaching can help team members take responsibility for their collective success.
- Improved adaptability: Systemic team coaching can help teams become more adaptable in the face of change. By understanding the team’s interdependent relationships and communication patterns, teams can better navigate complex situations and respond to new challenges.
How systemic team coaching works
Systemic team coaching typically involves several phases:- Assessment: The coach conducts an assessment of the team’s current state, including communication patterns, decision-making processes, and team dynamics.
- Goal-setting: The coach works with the team to identify their goals and develop a shared vision for the team’s future.
- Action planning: The coach helps the team develop an action plan to achieve their goals. This may include addressing systemic issues that impact team performance, developing communication and collaboration strategies, and identifying individual and team strengths and weaknesses.
- Implementation: The coach works with the team to implement the action plan and monitor progress towards their goals.
- Evaluation: The coach and the team evaluate progress towards their goals and make any necessary adjustments to the action plan.
The role of the coach in systemic team coaching
The coach plays a critical role in systemic team coaching. The coach helps the team identify systemic issues that impact their performance, and develops strategies to address these issues. The coach also helps the team build stronger relationships and develop a shared sense of accountability for their performance. The coach’s approach to systemic team coaching should be collaborative, supportive, and non-judgmental. The coach should work with the team to develop solutions that are aligned with the team’s goals and values.Empowers teams to thrive in a complex and interconnected environment
Team coaching usually with Co-Coaches, helps create a psychologically safe space where the team can come together to broaden perspectives and heighten awareness of the interconnected space that the team is in. The Team’s Co-Coaches provide insights into what they are seeing as observers and coach the interconnections. The team usually only has a narrow vision of what impacts them on a regular day-to-day basis but beyond that the space between the connections are not apparent.
Creating a Climate of Trust
The core principle of true leadership is that the team leader creates a climate of trust in the team and in the wider organisation and creates a virtuous cycle of active collaboration grounded in shared purpose. Team Coaching centres around the co-coaches working with the team to identify patterns of behaviour, and recurrent themes and project their narrative into the future to provide clarity in their shared purpose. Where teams are not competing with each other and instead focused on realising shared purpose and values, the organization moves in tandem towards a unifying goal.
Promotes psychological safety
Psychological safety is a shared belief held by individuals that fellow members of their team will not embarrass, reject, or punish them for speaking up. Team members often hold a fear of being judged, criticized, isolated or removed from the team. Admitting a lack of knowledge or asking for help may be seen as likely to result in a loss of prestige, being seen as incompetent, or being blamed for team failures. Having a psychologically safe space ensures that each team member is able to bring all of oneself to work, and feels safe when sharing one’s authentic self with the team. When employees feel safe within their work environment, they are often more creative, open, engaged, and committed to contributing. Creating this sense of safety takes intentional work on building trust together. This is where team coaching can empower members to work with intention, commitment, and connection.
Learning and Diversity: difference of perspective
Team Coaching brings two coaches’ experiences, expertise and also their diverse perspectives to the teams. The Team Coaches focus on providing observations and opportunities for learning where people are different. Beyond the first three months in an organisation, there is a tendency for individuals to think of things as, ‘the way things are done here’. Having a fresh perspective on ‘groupthink’ and introducing a diversity of thought and insights into the team equation can have a beneficial impact to nurture the team to grow beyond its confines.
High Value Creating Team
Team Coaching is a way to enable teams to get on the path to a High-Value Creating Team. A high value-creating team is different from a high-performing team where a high performing team is focused within and looks more to compete within the organisation however a high value-creating team, takes a stakeholder-centred approach to nurture the interconnections, to nourish healthy task conflicts where appropriate, while enhancing relationships with a view to bettering the environment as a whole not just a limited piece of it.
Systemic team coaching is a powerful approach to help teams improve their performance and achieve their goals. By focusing on the interdependent relationships and interactions within a team, as well as the team’s connection to its broader organizational context, systemic team coaching can help teams become more effective and adaptable. The coach plays a critical role in systemic team coaching, working with the team to identify systemic issues and develop strategies to address them. If you’re interested in improving your team’s performance, consider working with a systemic team coach.
We hope these insights have provided perspectives on the key benefits team coaching brings, and how it can be used to harness a healthier company culture and stronger team performance.
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