Main description:

Working with teams, leading teams, and being a member of a team is part of everyday working life for most of us. Through the lens of a team coaching case study, this book considers the development journey of a team and system influences over a three-year period.

Readers are invited to walk in the shoes of the team, the team leader, the organisation, the team coach and the coach's supervision and support networks, providing a unique insight into team coaching and development that goes beyond the traditional focus on the coach's perspective. Helen Zink uses her considerable experience as a leadership and team development coach, and leader to illustrate how team coaching interventions can be combined with other disciplines such as positive psychology, change management, and strategic implementation in effective ways. The book takes a pracademic approach, showing how theories, models and best practice are applied to a real case and highlighting both the successes and challenges experienced to offer an example for all those involved in team, leadership and organisational development.

With it widely recognised that collective leadership and teamwork is needed to deal with the rapidly changing environment organisations find themselves in, this is a timely and important resource for coaches, team coaches, coach supervisors, team leaders, team members, organisational development specialists, change managers, academics and consultants.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Section A - Background

2. Context

3. Approach

Section B - Five Perspectives

4. Team perspective

5. Leader perspective

6. Function and Organisation perspective

7. Coach perspective

8. Supervision and Other Support perspective

Section C - Insights

9. Comparing perspectives - Similarities

10. Comparing perspectives - Differences

11. The future

12. Conclusion