Team Coaching
Transformational Coaching for Leadership Teams
SIMA®Centered Team Coaching connects and integrates individual excellence to enhanced team performance. It combines the best of the SIMA®Centered Coaching Program with a systemic approach to team dynamics and team effectiveness.
A team is more than the sum of its parts. A team-particularly a great leadership team-is a focused, unified unit that has a clear sense of purpose. Usually great teams have members with diverse gifts and styles of operating; a rich variety of functional disciplines and specialist expertise represented; deep trust between members; and simple ways of sharing and communicating the team mission and the imperatives of leadership to the wider organization.
Great teams know instinctively what needs to be done, who is best to do it, and how to give support to each other to ensure the best result. Your team can know this. Your team can work at this together. Such power in togetherness, such ease together, such "instinctive" wisdom often comes in the fray, after the first few "battles" together. Your team can address and improve its own performance. SIMA®Centered Team Coaching will quicken the process to enable you to deliver better results sooner.
Overview of the Process
Establishing a Benchmark for Improvement. The program begins with an in-depth diagnostic intervention, which means a series of one-on-one diagnostic interviews with all team members, as well as with all key stakeholders who are not members, but who share an interest in the outputs of the team. These interviews will determine the extent of the work needed. A sound analysis of what it is "really" like to be on the team will provide a benchmark for improvement. In this phase we get a clear view of the "health" of the team, the development needs of the key "players," and the "state" of the business.
One-on-One Coaching and Time-Out. One-on-one SIMA®Centered Coaching for each person on the team builds commitment to the "development agenda" and helps foster individual accountability for team dynamics, while the team as a whole experiences some "time-out-of-time" together to review its own internal processes and address the needs of the wider organization. Typically, such an event takes place off-site and overnight. The team commits to improving its behavior and holding each other mutually accountable for the disciplines necessary to deliver enhanced team performance.
Sharing Each Other's Strengths. Linking the timing of the individual work and the teamwork enables each person to share their "story" and show how their strengths can contribute to a "bigger story" Team dynamics improve as deep listening replaces superficial posturing, "generative space" displaces competitive bickering, and a culture of respect develops.
Measuring Progress. Progress is measured against the benchmark of the initial "state of the union" diagnostics.