Team Coaching
Drive Strategic Growth by Aligning Your Teams for Collaborative Success.
Team Coaching:
From Me to We
Team coaching is an ongoing process where one or two skilled coaches work with a team and its leader to enhance team performance and alignment. At Coaching Connection, our goal is to empower teams to become “self-coaching teams” that share, reflect, provide feedback, and observe with curiosity—even without a coach present.
How do we define
an effective team?
Research consistently identifies several key characteristics that contribute to the success of high-performing teams: clear goals and purpose, effective communication, mutual trust and respect, psychological safety, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. In the tech and biotech sectors, these elements are particularly crucial. Clear goals and effective communication ensure alignment with strategic objectives, while mutual trust and psychological safety foster an environment where innovation can thrive.
Equip your teams with the tools, mindset, and skills to tackle complex challenges and achieve business goals with agility and clarity.
Group Coaching vs. Team Coaching?
In Group Coaching, individuals work on personal goals within a collaborative learning environment guided by a group coach. In Team Coaching, the team collaborates with the coach and leader to achieve a shared goal, ensuring alignment on strategy, purpose, values, communication, and role clarity for optimal performance and stakeholder satisfaction.
How can Team Coaching
help you?
Team Coaching is a structured and collaborative process designed to enhance team performance and cohesion. In today’s rapidly evolving market and focus on strategic growth, tech, and biotech leaders often face hurdles like misalignment, trust gaps, working in silos, lack of role clarity, and unclear communication between teams. These challenges stall growth, impact decision-making, and reduce efficiency across the organization.
Unlike traditional training, team coaching empowers teams to leverage strengths, respect differences, and improve collective problem-solving. Through guided sessions, a coach helps teams identify challenges, clarify goals, and create strategies for success. This process typically lasts 5-8 months.
Is Your Team a Group of Individuals or a Cohesive Team?
There are a few models to identify the stages of a team. Tuckman’s model identifies four stages teams go through: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. We use a simplified model to identify our work with teams based on Gersick and Tuckman: Team Alignment, Team Checkpoint, Team Ending
Team Alignment:
As a team progresses in their work for a while, it's important to create space for reassessment, reflection, and perspective. Team coaching provides the opportunity to review progress, refocus the team, and adjust direction when needed, ensuring continued alignment and effectiveness.
There might be some clarity on some of the roles, goals, and values, but there is still a need to realign and refocus since the team does not achieve its goals effectively.
Team Forming:
A brand new or cross-functional team was formed to work on a new project or initiative.
According to Tuckamn, whenever a new member joins, or a new leader takes over, a team is essentially considered to be moving back to the "Forming" stage.
This is still a group of individuals with individual goals. There is still no clarity on their roles and shared purpose, values, and goals.
Self-Coached Team:
The team agreed and aligned on purpose, values, goals, roles, and rituals. A culture of healthy disagreement exists, where differing strengths and perspectives are respected. The team can independently call on leadership to regain focus when needed without relying on an external coach. Stakeholders can observe and feel the positive impact of the team's collaboration and progress.
This is an aligned, high-performing team that is effective, and their impact is noticed by their stakeholders and beyond.
Let’s Assess the Need
Group Coaching:
Common Purpose:
Participants work on individual tasks or goals.
Collaboration and Trust:
Interactions between individuals and having a peer coach help each other grow and develop by sharing ideas, thoughts, resources, and new perspectives.
Performance and Accountability:
Success is based on an individual’s performance, growth, and the relationships they build with the group members to last beyond the circle. Being part of a group and having a peer coach helps participants be accountable to their group when reporting back on progress during check-in time and peer coaching.
Team Coaching:
Common Purpose:
High-Performing Team: Team members share a common, collective goal and are committed to achieving it together.
Collaboration and Trust:
High-Performing Team: Members actively collaborate, trust one another, and leverage each other's strengths. They depend on each other to meet shared objectives, creating synergy.
Performance and Accountability:
High-Performing Team: Success is a result of the team's collective effort. Members hold each other accountable for both individual and group outcomes.