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Teams can benefit from systemic coaching to
achieve common goals and resolve team problems.
We coach team leaders to develop quality relationships and improve productivity,
and individual team members to resolve any blocks to healthy productivity
required for cooperation and collaboration.
Effective Team Leadership
Few groups of people can truthfully be called teams. Managing groups
rarely needs the skills and dedication required for effective team leadership.
Organizing people or overseeing workgroups requires far less skill than
developing those groups into competent, inspired and cooperating teams.
Perhaps you are a member of a group that you know could
do better - maybe a lot better - and you would like to be an effective
leader. Imagine that you repeatedly see the following actions during meetings
... how might a competent leader react?
- A team member is overly talkative
- A team member continually distracts the leader
- A team member says, "Yes, but ..." to every idea
- A team member communicates: “I am always right”
- Two team members whisper while the leader is talking
- A team member accuses the leader,
“You make us look bad”
- A member provides important information
only after decisions have been made
If you don't know how to solve these problems smoothly and
you want to be an effective team leader - you could probably benefit from our coaching
or training. We coach teams and team leaders to dissolve problems while
taking steps towards defining and achieving worthwhile goals.
Our team training offers both short-term results and long-term development.
Systemic Leadership
Candidates for leadership usually demonstrate superior
accomplishments and can inspire people to embody the core competencies and
values of an organization. Dressing for success and pretty certificates are not enough.
You can maximize your potential with our leadership coaching.
Teams and organizations need leaders, and leadership skills
enhance your success within your organization. Leadership skills benefit both
you and your organization ... enhance your income, productivity, greater job
satisfaction and success towards your objectives.
All teams start as groups - do you want to coach groups to
develop into teams? Or do you want to coach so-so team leaders to become
effective? Or perhaps both?
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Coaching Groups to become Teams |
- Generate Efficiency
- Develop Team Goals
- From Hoping to Acting
- Dissolve Hidden Agendas
- Commitment & Accountability
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- Keep on Going
- Replicate Success
- Frustration & Failure
- Celebrate and Enjoy
- Share Values & Vision
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Leadership Coaching for Top Team Leaders
Do your core values match the values of your team? If you are
trying to force people to change their values ... well, good luck. An early step
should be to assess the team values - and your own - and check that they match.
If you are highly success oriented and the team is highly
relationship oriented or stability oriented or survival oriented ... what can
you do? If your values do not match the team values, there are solutions.
What type of team leader do you want to be? A dictator? An
absent manager? A motivator? A supportive parent? You leadership skills may need
fine-tuning. The Golden Rule (the person with the gold makes the rules)
may work with desperate or needy people, for a short time anyway. It may also work
for gang leadership - but probably not for effective team leadership.
You cannot develop your leadership skills alone; mentorship is
integral to quality teamwork. Can you invest 100% in a team when you do not agree
100% with their goals, values or methods? We coach and mentor team leaders ... and
people who want to become team leaders:
- Build passion and integrity
- Identify what can be changed
- Select appropriate team members
- Predict, identify and analyze relationships
- Resolve conflicts to build motivation and trust
- Resolve your own issues (personal, emotional and
prejudicial)
Top Leaders lead Top Teams
Do you feel threatened or liberated by the qualities and competence
of your team members? Are you afraid of or do you prefer competition for your leadership?
Are you reacting to old beliefs or creating new ones? We coach team leaders to inspire
team members (we're talking about team leadership - managing work pools or
leading gangs need very different skills):
- Enjoy flexible leadership
- Appreciate and use diversity
- Share core values and mission
- Facilitate team decision making
- Be delighted to be part of the team
- Work together with other team members
- Value performance, flexibility, creativity and variety
- Develop members' personal qualities and team skills
Top Leaders dissolve Team Problems
Effective team leaders coach teams to dissolve team problems.
Some of the more common issues that effective leaders must dissolve in teams are:
- Criticism
- Hidden agendas
- Immature members
- Passive aggression
- Endless discussions
- Conflicts between
members
Top Leaders Build Top Teams
Our systemic diagnosis can identifies the
underlying structure of team problems and our goal diagnosis helps provide clear team goals.
Focus on shared values and support members who want to excel. We coach leaders
to discuss team
objectives and balance team relationships - perhaps using
a little creative chaos to keep the team dynamic.
Do you want team leaders to dissolve
success blocks and relationship issues?
Do you want teams to boost productivity and quality?
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Coaching for Teams & Team Leaders
We suggest that different people coach individual team
members and teams if there
are strong conflicts between team member's individual goals and the team's
collective goals.
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