Team Coaching

What exactly is “team coaching,” and how can it help improve team dynamics? 

At CCL, when we speak of team coaching, we’re referring to the process of a single coach working with a team of leaders, giving each member the opportunity to stretch beyond their current abilities. This type of coaching has evolved alongside increasingly team-oriented workplaces.  

Our team coaching process starts with a thorough assessment of your team, so your coach can develop a deep understanding and alignment around the key organizational challenges and current team dynamics.

Your coach then creates a team coaching journey, which can be targeted to achieve the following outcomes: 

• Increased self-awareness among individual team members of traits, behaviors, and their impact on team dynamics
• Establishment of team guiding principles to foster a sense of purpose and achieve the vision and strategy of the organization
• Increased levels of team shared direction, alignment, and commitment, resulting in greater team effectiveness

At CCL, we have a unique perspective on team leadership, team effectiveness, and team development, informed by over 5 decades of research into leadership and how people work together best. We also have special expertise in senior executive team development and organizational leadership team effectiveness. 

When we partner with clients for team coaching, we: 

• Offer evidence-based solutions built on a deep foundation of research;
• Consider team development a journey with discrete phases, rather than a one-time event, because sustainable change takes time;
• Place the team’s business goals at the center of our team coaching focus and approach;
• Start with individual and team assessment data, to understand the team’s current state and desired goals;
• Consider the team within the context of the larger organization; and
• Work simultaneously with the entire team and with each individual team member to define coaching-supported developmental plans at both levels.

And you can count on a great fit and productive team coaching relationship, because our experts take your organizational needs and your team members’ skillsets, personalities, and language into account to match your teams with a team coach from among our deep, global network of centrally managed, highly qualified world-class leadership coaches.