Team coaching

Create a powerful and effective team, collaborating in pursuit of a shared outcome. 

Team coaching

We often believe that giving people a shared goal and telling them they are a team is enough to make them one. It’s not. A team is a group of people who trust each other. Who share a common vision, and agree on a set of principles to help them get there. This doesn’t happen by accident.

Team coaching unlocks the potential of your team members by focusing on what the team needs as an entity in its own right. How the team communicate, resolve conflict, hold its members accountable? What needs to happen for everyone on the team to feel heard, recognised, valued? How does the team serve its external stakeholders, and interact with other internal teams?

Is team coaching for you?

Team coaching is for teams with a big ask on their shoulders, for teams who recognise they are more powerful together than as a series of individuals, and for teams who are willing to look inwards in order to improve their impact outwards. 

This is for you if:

  • You lead or are part of a new or re-structured team

  • There are unacknowledged group dynamics in the team that are slowing everyone down

  • Previous ways of working within the team are no longer effective

  • Your team is high performing and you want to invest in them for the long term

  • You want to support the teams in your business, but are not sure how to go about it

  • The team is not meeting business expectations and previous interventions have not worked

How team coaching can help your team

It’s easy enough to identify what is falling short in our teams. It’s far less easy to know exactly what to do about it. It can be tempting to drop in an away day of paintballing and a nice dinner and hope the problem goes away. More often than not, the issues remain.

Team coaching helps teams align around a common purpose and get clear about their contribution. It supports teams to develop a common language, manage conflict and build greater trust and collaboration.

Team coaching can tackle the issues that have been kicking around in your team for months, or even years, in just a few hours.

We achieve this through guided and supported dialogue, reflections, observations and awareness-building exercises  in order to address the unsaid, unseen and undesirable forces that hamper your team’s success, and strengthen the connections, values and shared goals that support it.

How it works

Team coaching is the process of looking inwards as a team with honesty, purpose and support, to create lasting change that maximises collective potential, purpose and performance goals.

Every team is unique so the content of a team coaching engagement will be bespoke. However, they all share a structure and start in the same place.

  • The first step is a series of informal but wide-ranging discussions with team leaders and 121s with team members. We may also decide on a diagnostic questionnaire to the team, direct reports and stakeholders.

  • We’ll work with the team to co-create a fully bespoke programme designed to address the specific needs and objectives of your team.

  • Across the next 6-12 months, we'll work together across a number of interventions. These are likely to include some or all of the following:

    A series of half or full day Team Coaching sessions

    121 executive coaching for some/all of the team

    Specifically identified training, facilitation or team building activity

    Shadowing and observations during team meetings

“It's very clear that after our Team Coaching we are more aligned as a team and better equipped to approach our 3-5 year strategy together.”  

Martin Chalmers | Chief Digital & Information Officer | Reading Borough Council, Reading

Whilst most of our Team Coaching engagements are bespoke, we do offer packages to help you plan your budget. Get in touch for more specific pricing for your needs.

  • Team diagnostic

    A great starting point either to provide insight ahead of a Team Coaching engagement, or just to give you a snapshot of your team to help figure out what you need to celebrate and develop

    Includes team leader discussion, team briefing, diagnostic Questionnaire, results deck and 2 hour team debrief call

    £1125

  • Coaching discovery

    A first step in Team Coaching. A 6 month programme of support to raise levels of trust, honesty and collective purpose. Teams will explore powerful new ways of being, talking and working with each other.

    Includes team diagnostic, 121 interviews, team leader support, session co-creation and 3 full day Team Coaching sessions.

    £5500

  • Coaching investment

    A full 12-month commitment to creating a high performing team for lasting, meaningful change and impact. This will be a bespoke programme built specifically to your needs.

    Includes everything in Coaching Discovery, plus 121 Executive Coaching, 6 full day Team Coaching sessions, team meeting observation and feedback.

    From £11000

Curious about team coaching?

Let’s talk

If you’re a senior team leader, or responsible for supporting leadership teams, and are struggling to fully realise the purpose, performance or potential of your team, then let’s talk.

Get in touch with me for a confidential, no-commitment conversation.

“Organisations get complex because people get complex - particularly the high growth, ambitious ones. Having someone like Fi to support and guide you de-risks and accelerates the operations of your team and, ultimately, your bottom line.

In any knowledge business, anything that helps your people be happier, less stressed, more effective and retained really matters. For the individual of course, but for the business as well.”

— Tim Deeson | Founder & CEO | Deeson, Founder IfWeRaise, London