Team coaching
The team is an entity just like a person. It should be treated as such. Relational universe of people who formed and its relations with the outside (customers, company structure to which it belongs, manager, leader, etc), all of them define the form and attributes of efficiency and competitiveness. A team of any kind and at any level hierarchical created (executive, managerial, top management, etc.) is animated by the energy of it’s relations.
It is very important to understand that a member can not define the whole team, but his relationship with other members affects all. Therefore, the most effective approach to improve performance of a team is to treat it as an entity. We can change one, two or more people in a team, but if habits, how to relate and energy that govern not change, the result in change is zero for the simple reason that the new people will get the same habits, the same modes of work, the same attitude in response to standard business situations, because “I saw that things work like this around here”. What happens to the members: when the energy of the system is on a different level than the team member, there is a conflict, while inadequacy leading to lower yields, lack of involvement and decreased energy. Finally, or the team member leaves the team or he aligns with it.
Team coaching role is to lead the whole team at once, through a process that is essentially delegative towards the efficiency and high level value wich are greater than each member’s as an individual. In this way, team members gain a common and assumed energy and the new modes of team become the most fertile compost for efficiency and performance process.
The improvement directions in coaching sessions that I have with teams, lead in all cases to the following results, consistent on short, medium and long term:
- taking valuable results and ambitious goals
- clarify roles and areas of responsibility
- efficiency and energy balance of the team
- time and overall process efficiency
- increasing levels of creativity and involvement
- improve motivation and accountability
- qualitative and quantitative improvement of information material traded
- increasing performance