Mastering the Art of Team Coaching: chapter One 'Teams Matter' - reflections, notes and conversation

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 Intelligence = Unprecedented Human Progress

The world is accumulating answers no one seems to want.   So much attention to individual leadership (coaching has contributed to this) needs to replace to a focus on teams and how they learn together.

The vaccines distribution and sharing debate highlights the mindset shift needed.

The Coach Approach

Making a stand for the client holding both agenda and solutions - and coach brings awareness, insight, sensing and feeling, presence.  Honouring the sovereignty of the team.    Alternative is coach managing the process and necessarily imposes boundaries and limiting structure.