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Optimism: Overlooked, Underappreciated & Powerful

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Optimism. It’s so much more than a smiley-face emoji. It’s one of the strongest factors that define high performing teams. For good reason. Any team can be positive when things are going well. When things are falling apart and tensions are high, optimistic teams are resilient, proactive and creative because they believe, “we can find a way”. Optimism is an attitude and mindset. It is built through experience, especially success when the storm blocks out […]

Resources: Where Creativity & Opportunity Intersect

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Lack of sufficient resources is a chronic complaint on teams. There’s never enough time, budget or people to accomplish everything that’s expected. They have a point. There isn’t. In fact, there is a great deal that teams don’t have control over when it comes to resources. The desired shift for high performing teams is toward a mindset that focuses less on what’s missing and more on what’s available. The constraint that comes with insufficient resources […]

Constructive Interaction: When Getting Messy Pays Dividends

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Conflict on teams is normal. It’s often a sign that people care about the process or the results. Disagreement, heated debate, are signs of passion and conviction—qualities of engaged teams. What is also true: avoiding conflict is also normal and unattended conflict, over time, is toxic to teams. The key for those of us who work with teams is to create a safe, supportive, and empowered environment for the benefit of the team. In the […]

Trust: Making It Real on Teams

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In 2020 we continue our focus on the 14 TCI Team Performance Indicators from the team effectiveness model. This month we explore “Trust”. “Trust is an issue on our team”. We hear that over and over in our early discovery work with teams. Lack of trust stifles creativity and undermines engagement. It becomes personal and breeds a toxic atmosphere. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are ways to turn everyday conversation and action […]

System Aware: Making the Invisible, Visible

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A team is more than a collection of individual parts. Teams have personalities, history and a story that goes with it, unique beliefs and values. More than that, teams create distinct rules of behavior that team members learn by observation or by subtle reward or punishment. Most of the time, teams are unaware of their “teamness” and its impact on team performance. To be effective as a team coach one must be able to see […]

Coaching Virtual Teams: Sharing the Community’s Wisdom & Experience

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About This Webinar Back by popular demand is last month's hugely attended webinar on this most timely topic: coaching virtual teams. Teams and team coaches across the globe are making the transition to a technology-based gathering. There are team coaches for whom the virtual environment is familiar territory and many coaches on a sharp learning curve. Items covered are as follows: Technology and basic guidelines Creating a team coaching environment—different from standard meeting Team agreements […]

Tuned In: A Core Team Coaching Competency That Can’t Be Ignored

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Teams are always sending signals. And as those signals come in, in different ways, and at different times we're often flooded with information. These signals are sometimes loud and obvious – filled with emotion and concern. And at other times they are quiet and almost invisible. As team coaches, we must practice the skill of tuning in to all these signals and helping make sure that they are received, understood, and used by the teams […]

The Differences Between Individual & Team Coaching

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Individual coaching as an industry has finally started to come of age, with high support for the basic idea of coaching in some form in nearly all larger and many smaller organizations. However – “team coaching” is still a relatively new and challenging idea for many teams out there to say nothing of the leaders who might be interested in hiring a team coach to help their team. And this is true despite the ROI […]

Reflective Observer: Helping Teams See Themselves for Who They Are

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Being a Team coach means being observant – watching the team and its members interact with their work and each other. But for truly exceptional team coaching to happen – we must be “reflective observers” which introduces additional a couple of distinctions. Slowing down and getting reflective is a process that most teams are sorely lacking in the day to day hustle of accomplishing their purpose. Team coaches can be an oasis of observed habits […]

Getting Started With a Team

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The need for higher-performing teams is on the rise. And as a growing and creative field, team coaching is growing along with that need. The way most businesses attempt to solve complex problems these days is to throw a team at it. And yet, despite their efforts, the level of team performance we're seeing, remains low. The latest data says that in the best case scenario, high-performing teams comprise a mere 10%-20% of active business […]

Competency #4: Actively Present

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As Team Coaches we often find ourselves in front of a team of passionate players, an overloaded agenda, and a deep awareness of how far we have to travel to help them improve. And then something happens that forces us to throw everything out the window. The old joke applies: “What does a team coach do during a lunch break? rewrite the agenda!” Learning to manage for these variables and make progress, while holding space […]

The Importance of Ongoing Coaching

Despite the fact that people have been doing some form of team coaching for thousands of years, as a discipline, team coaching is still very new. As a result, we team coaches are still having to re-create our own ideal process. To this day, team coaching gets confused with similar interventions and initiatives that can help improve a team’s performance. But if you’re going to do effective and impactful team coaching work, it's going to […]

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