Teaming issues directly impact organizational effectiveness, from the top of the organization to the front lines.  Teaming is a differentiator: organizations that have better teaming skills get better results.

If you are looking for a magical team transformation in the course of a feel-good, two-day retreat, we are not the firm for you.  That’s because team development is a process, not an event. Because change only happens over time, we partner with teams over several months.

Here are the principles that guide our work with teams:

Team coaching is time on target.  We use the team’s current business challenges as the backdrop for our work together. The results of coaching are measured in business success.

“We,” not “you” or “they.” We don’t coach individual relationships among team members. The object of focus in coaching is the team as a whole.  Our philosophy is that everyone owns the team’s experience, challenges, and achievements. Coaching shows team members how their actions and attitudes create ripple effects throughout the whole team, and beyond the team.

We help teams increase safety and trust.  Psychological safety is a prerequisite to healthy teaming.  Teams learn and practice open dialogue so they can see, name, and discuss relationship dynamics with candor.

The teams owns its own results. As coaching progresses, the team takes more responsibility for experimenting and applying new approaches that encourage high performance. The team learns to diagnose and address its own learning needs, applying our model of 14 teaming competencies.

Curious to learn more about how team coaching works?
Check out this case study

  • You impressed one of our toughest clients with the strength of your expertise and presence.

    Leanne W., Senior Consultant and Project Manager at a Large Consulting Firm

  • You gave us the safe space to really focus on what is needed to build/maintain a strong management team. Key to that process is trust. …I think a key part of your contribution really was that ability to facilitate very strong personalities towards a common goal of building a cohesive management team.

    Michael Y., Team Lead, Federal Agency

  • I want to thank you for doing such an exceptional job facilitating our management retreat last week. It was quite an experience, being productive, enlightening, fun, and emotionally challenging at times. I believe we all benefited and hopefully it will help our team to gel and trust a bit more. Thank you for leading us through the wild ride both professionally and gracefully.

    Tracey O., Division Director, Federal Agency

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