Increasingly, business leaders are realising the value and importance of building team effectiveness through team coaching. Teams that demonstrate high levels of trust and alignment, comfort around conflict, strong communications and shared accountability, plus commitment to collective goals are proven to deliver better business outcomes.
Working with clients to understand their business’s big picture environment, company and specific team context, I tailor powerful team coaching programmes to ensure meaningful and lasting results.
An audit and discovery process surfaces overarching the team’s dynamics; it’s strengths and weaknesses and areas for exploration and development. Only once these are clarified, does the work of designing the team coaching plan begin, considering systems’ contexts, leader and team feedback, plus agreed desired outcomes.
The team coaching is delivered – ideally in person – and from the outset, I ensure everyone feels psychologically safe and confident to authentically contribute and participate.
On completion of the coaching, a debrief highlights key observations, actions agreed, and distils sustainable plans to ensure individual and collective accountability towards the team and company mission.
Example team coaching briefs:
Improving performance – identifying gaps in collective team effectiveness and addressing to redesign strategic and activation approach
Building effective interpersonal relations and team leadership – incorporating the impact of wider systems and influences
Bonding newly formed or merged teams – to build trust, create safe space and for the team to learn more about each other
Clarifying direction and purpose – (re)identifying goals, expectations and strategic approach
Culture change programmes – developing leaders’ scope and capacity to demonstrate new company values and behaviours
Building resilience – bringing team together to work collaboratively and effectively to face challenging environments more effectively
Feedback from the team on their individual coaching has been positive with several great new initiatives undertaken showing good outcomes for the business overall. Tess's style, humour and intelligence made it very easy for our team to feel properly listened to and engaged with - especially coming out of the isolation of COVID lock downs.
Tess’s insight into the creative agency world, plus her wise personal counsel gives me confidence that she will support development of my senior leadership team – both in the UK and the US.