Team Coaching for New Teams

Jon Katzenbach has defined a high performing team as “A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach, for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.”

Team coaching helps a group of individuals become a high performance team by:

Creating a safe environment for the team to explore the team dynamics and personal relationships within the team, hence building open and honest interactions and allowing productive conflict and engagement.

• Creating alignment around a shared vision and purpose for the team.
  
  
• Ensuring responsibility and accountability remains as “I” and “we” as opposed to “you” or “them” and team ground rules are respected.
  
  
• Clarifying performance goals, milestones and measures that drive better performance and team success and keeping focus on these goals.
  
  
• Raising awareness of the different skills, strengths and personalities within the team and helping the team to leverage these differences.

The above are achieved through the coach helping the team raise its’ awareness and its’ emotional intelligence through activities, questions, reflection and honest dialogue.

These attributes are never more crucial than when a team is new and is going through the forming and storming stages.