Executive Team Coaching
If the team gets stuck and fails to collaborate, team coaching may be the way to unlock.
In today’s complex world, business leaders face a wide range of external challenges – including adapting to digitization, meeting evolving Environmental, Social, and Governance guidelines, reducing CO2 emissions, transforming business strategies, getting to know new cultures and ensuring diversity and inclusion.
At the same time, leaders also face internal pressure – to be attentive to stakeholders, review or realign business processes and models, or possibly deal with disappointing performance. To manage these pressures effectively, new leaders increasingly turn to external expertise, in the form of Executive Team Coaching. In today’s complex world, business leaders face a wide range of external challenges – including adapting to digitization, meeting evolving Environmental, Social, and Governance guidelines, reducing CO2 emissions, transforming business strategies, getting to know new cultures, and ensuring diversity and inclusion.
Why Executive Team Coaching?
In executive teams with common goals and objectives, team members must not only cooperate, but also collaborate, to be successful. After all, a team is worth more than the sum of its parts. As such, Executive Team Coaching traditionally focuses on optimizing these interpersonal relationships (the ‘Who’). It aims to build mutual trust and, after a thorough diagnosis, facilitate reflection among team members.
Approach
Once the scope of the coaching questions is clear, and upon agreement in writing with the team leader (or his/her manager), buy-in from the team is needed for a reasonable chance of success. Depending on the complexity, a set number of sessions are planned. Ideally, these sessions will be in-person, but digital meetings are also possible.
What does the Executive Team Coach do?
The Team Coach is often requested to assist a team that is ‘stuck’, by facilitating openness and unblocking issues that are considered ‘off-limits’ and cannot be discussed without external help. Being able to openly discuss sensitive matters makes team members more capable of managing individual differences. By improving the relationships in this way, the team will become more productive, be in a better position to solve problems, and find it more fun and rewarding to interact with each other.
The Team Coach has to be aware of the context in which the executive team operates: it is important to slow down the daily routine, allowing members space for reflection, attention to each other, and relaxation. In this environment, the Team Coach will analyze the power dynamics and patterns in the team to understand what is going on. Ineffective teams can be the result of stress – caused by a variety of reasons – but also of conflict. The Team Coach will subsequently explore what is happening with the team, addressing any relevant issues and, if necessary, confronting team members to engage in the discussions.
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