International Coaching News (iCN) online magazine is thrilled to announce the release of its newest issue. For the 19th edition the theme is Group Dynamics: Team Coaching, inspired by helping people understand how to work better with others. It’s an effective method for showing teams how to reduce conflict
by David Clutterbuck (UK) Team coaching requires a portfolio of skills beyond those in one-to-one coaching. Most of these relate to the difference in context between individual conversations and group dynamics. For example: Managing varying paces of learning. In team coaching, it is common for some members of the
by Barbara J. Cormack (France) Team or Group Coaching is all about working with more than one person at the same time. It is said that a ‘team’ is a group of people working together to achieve a common goal or outcome; whereas a ‘group’ maybe a number of
by Martin Goodyer (UK) Goodyer's Diogenes' Test: Is it possible to refute a definition with both good nature and absolute clarity? History is littered with examples of the great and the good coming up with definitions that prove to be less than helpful: About two and a half thousand
by Anne M. Bachrach (USA) Ask any entrepreneur about a very important factor for the growth of their business and the answer would be people – the ‘right’ people. In this day and age, the importance of the workforce gets lost in the myriad of buzzwords which are thrown
by Gary R. Gasaway (USA) Most successful organisations consist of managers that have great coaching abilities. These managers are considered great coaches because they can motivate, inspire, influence, overcome obstacles, transform risks into rewards, vision into realities, and values into actions. In other words, they use teamwork to lead
by Divya Parekh (USA) Around the turn of the 15th century, John Donne penned his famous poem that started out with the line, “No man is an island.” Donne used the poem to explain how life has people intertwined together in all aspects of life. The connectivity is a
by Cristina Nicoleta Burca (Romania) Don’t let procrastination or lack of commitment, drive the performance of your team and company. GROW and LIFT your team and thus, your organisation will grow naturally. Team coaching has developed in Romania since 2006 and since then spread massively among companies. However, there
by Nick Wright (UK) Introduction Team coaching is emerging fast as a new area of interest and experience for coaches who work with people in organisations. There are a number of reasons for this, most notably perhaps a growing recognition that: Potential: The performance of a great team can
by Robert Adams (UK) Great leaders know that without a high level of interdependence teams lack the cohesion, focussed drive and combined might to achieve great things. But here’s the big misconception; that teams achieve more when there is a balance and an absence of conflict. Let us first
