Five Disciplines of Team Coaching

Peter Hawkins, in his book, Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership, describes five disciplines that support a team coach to focus on the multiple relationships of the team. These relationships include the internal relationship among team members and the external relationship between the team as an entity and their stakeholders. The Five disciplines are:…

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Employ Team Coaching for Sustainable Change

Almost every time we facilitate a Leadership Coaching for High Performance seminar, someone poses the question, “Can we use this with teams as well?” Our answer: “Of course. The same skills apply—the essential skills of committed listening, powerful paraphrasing, presuming positive intent, and reflective feedback.” However, there are some differences between individual coaching and team…

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