Excited about Team Coaching

notes on chapter One of Mastering the Art of Team Coaching , Georgina Woudstra's inspirational new guide.    Please note these are intended solely support our reading group and development, and as such will be incomplete, unfinished, inconsistent highly disputable and emerging.  Published on this blog for convenient sharing between us, rather than any  wider public use .   'Organisations may still create 3 - 5 year plans, but they are likely to end up with very different results than they imagined as the future is no longer predictable' A team can be like another family Georgina appeals to the human need for finding meaning, belonging and engagement, as the pandemic lockdown showed us.   Teams are no longer fixed, full time, located receptacles for their leader's decisions - but fluid, mixed, dispersed partners, formed to create value through collaboration and innovation. Three main points:    Teams Matter Collaboration and Collective In...

On the Being of the Team Coach Picking out some points from Georgina Woudstra (Team Coaching Studio) speaking  in 2017 with Krista Lowe, Team Coaching Zone. Description: Find it here - 60 minutes: https://www.teamcoachingzone. com/georgina-woudstra Team Coaching, according to champion and pioneer, Georgina Woudstra, is different to familiar team interventions - team building, development, conflict resolution, team awaydays, solutions-oriented facilitation, consultancy, mentoring and so on.   Hence, it is new, growing and could make a massive impact on people who work with other people in any kind of organisation. Why?   Because the heart of Team Coaching is for the team to take responsibility for engaging with everything about how they work together - visible and under the surface - to create the trust, ability to disagree, commitment, accountability and collective attention to results (Lencioni) that will improve the experience of working in any team.  Su...