TEAM Coaching – Year long Executive Coaching program using Stakeholder Centered Coaching
TEAM coaching engagements create measurable leadership growth for the leader and the team as a whole using Marshall’s unique Stakeholder Centered Coaching process. The team coaching approach has several benefits.
Resource efficient
Since one executive coach works with all team members supporting each other in this TEAM coaching process, the whole coaching program is very time efficient. It reduces coaching fees per team member while still delivering a majority of the benefits of 1:1 coaching for the leader.
Changing leaders and teams at the same time
The team articulates one leadership growth area, and each team member defines their own leadership growth area that relates to the team focus. This creates an interdependent team effort, focusing on producing results for their individual effectiveness and team productivity simultaneously.
Create a Team Culture of Openness to continuous change
When team members collaborate as stakeholders in the TEAM coaching programs, it creates an open culture for leadership and team culture change. Furthermore, team members feel comfortable using feedback and feedforward to drive change for themselves and their teams.
Insider expertise
Team members should be able to provide expert advice and an insider view of each other as it relates to their business, their people, and their team culture challenges. They become de facto coaches.
Coaching is a leadership skill.
Some organizations use coaching as an ‘executive intervention’ or to ‘fix a problem,’ but this is a suboptimal approach to coaching. Coaching is a leadership skill, and leaders in organizations should be skilled coaches to help their teams develop and grow. As we expect effective leaders to be highly skilled in, e.g., communication, decision making, and empowerment, leaders should be highly skilled in coaching others. TEAM coaching is a great program to instill coaching as a leadership skill in the organization.
In the TEAM coaching process, team members supporting each other as stakeholders and coaches while implementing their action plans to make change visible. This program is ideal for leaders and their (cross-functional / project) teams to measurably change their individual and collective effectiveness. This happens while they lead and develop their teams, and at the same time, develop their coaching skills further to roll out this coaching process with their direct reports.
TEAM coaching can be a very effective and cost-efficient way to grow leaders, change teams and develop the organizational culture.
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