TEAM COACHING

How much do you want to invest in a team approach?

There is a lot of talk about the importance of team working at the moment.  Sometimes this is seen as a shortcut to increasing efficiency and ‘doing more with less’. But there can be a lack of reality about what is involved. Real teams, in which approaches and accountability are shared, only emerge after a lot of hard work from the individuals involved. I encourage organisations to think carefully about how important it is for them to invest in a team approach. You could be wasting your time unless you are sure that it will improve performance.

What are the benefits of teams?

If it is appropriate to work as a team, the benefits can be significant.  Anyone who has been part of a high performing team knows how they:

• Maximise individual strengths and minimise weaknesses

• Dramatically increase people’s motivation, commitment, and job satisfaction

• Achieve outstanding results

• Inspire people across the organisation

How can you develop your team?

You won't develop a team just through playing games or going paintballing. This might provide a fun day out (and there’s nothing wrong with that), but real teams emerge through performance challenges. It can help to have some facilitated time and space away from work, but you need to combine this with building the team on a day to day basis through the work tasks themselves.
 

How do you build a high performing team?

From our experience teams develop through:

• Agreeing a 'team charter' with a common purpose, shared values and clear objectives that really motivate the team

• Taking time out for team development e.g. reviewing progress, sharing ideas, understanding difference, building trust and mutual respect, and future planning

• Working with an experienced coach to improve team performance

• Building improvement and learning opportunities into the ongoing work of the team

How Diamond Facilitation can help

• Have a look at the free resources - such as the resource sheet on team coaching

• Ask for more information on diagnosing your team’s effectiveness and what you can do to improve it

• Get in touch to talk about any aspect of team coaching or facilitation