Team Coaching
Team Coaching
Building a foundation of trust and teamwork to communicate more effectively and optimize performance, often using an actual business challenge. That’s how I approach enhancing team effectiveness with clients.
Investing in interpersonal relationships, investing in results
Team performance should never be considered a zero-sum game. Every group is a collection of individuals with different needs, personalities, and communication styles.
Effective team coaching helps team leaders and members understand how to harness diversity for mutual gain. It sets the bar for what it means to be a true team player.
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
– Ken Blanchard, best-selling author, speaker, business consultant
Who I Work With
- Functional teams and their leaders
- Remote teams and their leaders
- Cross-functional teams and task forces and their leaders
Who I Work With
- Functional teams and their leaders
- Remote teams and their leaders
- Cross-functional teams and task forces and their leaders
What You Can Expect
- More realistic view of how team members experience each other
- Ability to productively articulate needs and expectations
- Clarity on roles and responsibilities
- Stronger employee engagement
- Strategies for connecting a remote and work-from-home team
- New appreciation for shared values in the desired organizational culture
- Address conflict
- Explore multiple perspectives and options
- Guidelines for creating and upholding a safe space
What You Can Expect
- More realistic view of how team members experience each other
- Ability to productively articulate needs and expectations
- Clarity on roles and responsibilities
- Stronger employee engagement
- Strategies for connecting a remote and work-from-home team
- New appreciation for shared values in the desired organizational culture
- Address conflict
- Explore multiple perspectives and options
- Guidelines for creating and upholding a safe space
Approach
- Use real situations for us to tackle as a group
- Typically starts with a team diagnostic, followed by a debrief and jointly developed action plan
- Expert use of team and individual assessment tools
- Typically 3 – 6 months of coaching, including team observation, support for leaders and individual members
- Individual coaching sessions can be done in person or over Zoom or other teleconferencing app
- Often includes conflict coaching, and/or mediation for specific team members
- Total confidentiality, or agreement of information to be shared
Approach
- Use real situations for us to tackle as a group
- Typically starts with a team diagnostic, followed by a debrief and jointly developed action plan
- Expert use of team and individual assessment tools
- Typically 3 – 6 months of coaching, including team observation, support for leaders and individual members
- Individual coaching sessions can be done in person or over Zoom or other teleconferencing app
- Often includes conflict coaching, and/or mediation for specific team members
- Total confidentiality, or agreement of information to be shared
“Working with my team, Heidi helped us to break down barriers, open up and discuss important issues, clarify our values, and identify the best ways to operate effectively, efficiently, and collaboratively. Some of my team members ask when we can meet with Heidi again.”
– J.L. Retail Business Owner – RI
