We are all time travellers, journeying together into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit.
Stephen Hawking
Systemic Team Coaching
My role as a systemic team coach is to enable the team to improve its performance, functioning, well-being, engagement and development.
I do this by working alongside the team, both in team meetings and off site workshops and in the teams engagement with its key stakeholders.
This is to promote continuation of coaching session development into the daily processes long after the coaching relationship ends.
Below are a list of some of the ways I may assist the systemic team coaching process:
- Observations and feedback
- Process interventions
- Facilitative interventions to enable the team to explore certain areas and move to new ways of operating and engaging
- Diagnostic instruments
- Incisive questions
- Challenges about performance
- Educational inputs
- Role-modelling behaviour
- Review mechanisms
- Multi stakeholder contracting and relationship management
- Evidence-based methods of team effectiveness
What is Systemic Team Coaching
Systemic team coaching is a process by which a team coach works with a whole team, both when they are together and when they are apart, in order to support them improve their collective performance and how they work together, and also how they develop their collective team to more effectively engage with their key stakeholder groups to jointly transform the wider business.
Breaking this down into key elements:
Both when they are together and when they are apart: some teams believe and act as if they are only a team when they are together, but the team functions between meetings when its members are carrying out activities on its behalf.
In order to help them improve their collective performance and how they work together: team coaching is not just to create and support process improvement but also to impact on the collective performance of the team.
Develop their collective team: use their time together as a team to develop their collective capacity in a congruent and joined-up way that provides operational integration and transformational change aligned to the vision, mission, strategy and core values of the organization.
To more effectively engage with all their key stakeholder groups: collective teams are not just about day to day internal operations but also about the team engaging the various stakeholders in a congruent, aligned and transformational way.
These stakeholders include, clients, customers, suppliers, partner organizations, employees, investors, regulators, boards and the communities in which the organization operates.
To jointly transform the wider business: the team need to take shared responsibility beyond their locus of control to how they will deploy their influence to develop the wider business and larger systemic context in which they operate.
Systemic Team Coaching can evolve inside the organizations current needs to later include team building and aspects of team facilitation.
The Process:
