Q: What will I learn about myself as a Team Coach?
You will have the opportunity to reflect on your strengths and challenges as a Team Coach, and to identify your own unique developmental path in this complicated and challenging role. You will be able to experiment in a real-time team situation, and receive feedback from colleagues about your effectiveness in group settings. You will be encouraged to reflect on what you are learning about yourself as a Team Coach at various points in the workshop. Are you able to maintain your equilibrium and learn from tension? How well can you listen at different levels? How do you know, within yourself, when and how to intervene in a group? Does your style increase or decrease trust? You will experience and develop a way of understanding team coaching that will serve you as an instrument for self-analysis, self-diagnosis and identification of personal strengths and areas for growth.
The reflection and introspection processes in the Team Coaching workshop were very powerful.
– Principle, HR Consulting Co.
Q: I've been working in teams and leading teams for years, mostly in business. How can this workshop help me?
Have you ever been in a team situation where:
These are some of the challenges that leaders and team coaches often face. As a result of attending this workshop on team coaching, you will gain skills and confidence for helping teams learn to handle these issues and move past them.
You will also learn to draw from the experience that you have already built up in your various roles as leaders, as team members and as coaches, and learn how to apply those experiences when you are coaching a team. You have probably experienced successes as leaders and members in teams you're involved with. The funny thing is that most of us don't have conscious awareness as to why we’ve had those successes, nor could we explain our experiences to someone else. We use our team skills unconsciously. As you participate in this workshop you'll begin to see the treasure of knowledge you hold about teams, so you can start to use it. You'll be able to free it up and grasp it so that you can use it voluntarily instead of involuntarily. You'll improve your capability to read the signals of group interaction and then be able to choose your most appropriate actions in the moment.
“The emphasis in the Team Coaching workshop was unique because we lived the things we learned. Goodbye to theory classes, hello real world!”
– Revenue and Marketing Manager
Q: Is the workshop around intervention as team coach or about team diagnosis?
Diagnosis is always happening and the diagnosis itself is also an intervention in the team system. In a sense we could say that as a team coach one of the elements of your work will be to help the team learn to diagnose itself by gathering data about how the team is working, applying a team-based analysis processes to the data, and then helping the team draw conclusions. It is very likely that you will develop awareness or sharpen your skills in three key diagnostic steps: how to help teams gather data; how to help teams analyze data (prioritizing, methods, models, etc.) and how to help teams draw conclusions.
“We learned how to intervene as a Team Coach by being in a team and experiencing real-time interventions that we learned from. It was a very wise way of teaching”. -HR Manager, Madrid
Q: What should I NOT expect from this workshop?
Q: How about gaining skills to work with "high-performance" teams? How could this workshop help me gain skills?
Team dynamics are mysterious and challenging and changing from moment to moment. This is why we (Anne and David) find them so fascinating! Sometimes the forces that make one team mediocre and another high performing are complicated to sort out – yet it can be done. And your presence as team coach in the interactions of the team is always a part of the mix. How do you affect the system? Your part? Your participation? In this workshop you will encounter many opportunities to open your "group eye" and refine its focus. This will allow you to consider and reconsider what your options may be to help a team move to high performance.
The workshop draws on the process consulting approach of Ed Schein and on process-oriented and experiential learning methods. As such, there may be activities that the group does together to highlight group dynamics for team coaching interventions
This workshop gave me a fantastic perspective on Team Coaching and tools to use.
– Revenue and Marketing Manager, Barcelona
“I gained deep learning about the role of the Team Coach, models of group dynamics, listening for the voice of the group, obstacles to high performance in teams and more from this experience of lived learning!”– HR Manager, Barcelona
Our Team
Anne Litwin and David Hudnut are experienced trainers and consultants who have lived and worked in a wide range of cultures and organizations. They bring a passion for collaborative team work and effective leadership to this timely work.