Team Coaching Training

Lesson 1 • Evidence Base for Team Coaching

Surveys research supporting team coaching effectiveness. Equips coaches to justify their approach to organizational stakeholders.

Lesson 2 • Defining Team Coaching

Establishes a precise definition of team coaching and its boundaries. Grounds all subsequent learning in a shared conceptual framework.

Lesson 3 • The Role of the Team Coach

Defines the coach's responsibilities, boundaries, and presence within a team system. Sets expectations for professional conduct throughout the course.

Lesson 4 • Core Principles of Team Coaching

Introduces the values and assumptions that underpin effective team coaching practice. Provides the ethical and philosophical basis for the discipline.

Lesson 1 • Psychological Safety in Teams

Explores the conditions that allow team members to speak up and take risks. Coaches learn to assess and strengthen safety as a foundation for growth.

Lesson 2 • Reading Team Energy and Affect

Trains coaches to notice emotional undercurrents and collective mood. Links affective awareness to targeted coaching responses.

Lesson 3 • Team Culture and Norms

Identifies how shared beliefs and unwritten rules shape team behavior. Coaches learn to surface and work with invisible cultural forces.

Lesson 4 • How Teams Form and Evolve

Traces the developmental stages teams move through over time. Provides a map coaches use to locate a team's current state.

Lesson 1 • Designing the Coaching Contract

Covers the essential elements of a formal coaching agreement. Ensures coaches can negotiate terms that are clear, ethical, and workable.

Lesson 2 • Establishing Working Agreements

Helps teams create explicit norms for how they will engage during coaching. Reduces friction and increases accountability throughout the engagement.

Lesson 3 • Setting Goals with the Team

Guides coaches through a collaborative goal-setting process with the full team. Builds ownership and alignment around coaching outcomes.

Lesson 4 • Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement

Identifies all parties with a stake in the coaching engagement before work begins. Prevents misalignment and scope creep later in the process.

Lesson 1 • Using Silence and Pause

Develops comfort with silence as an active coaching tool in group settings. Coaches learn when to hold space and when to intervene.

Lesson 2 • Powerful Questioning in Groups

Teaches question design and delivery that opens collective thinking. Distinguishes questions that energize teams from those that shut down dialogue.

Lesson 3 • Facilitating Team Dialogue

Builds skills for managing conversation flow, inclusion, and depth in team sessions. Coaches learn to balance structure with emergence.

Lesson 4 • Active Listening at the Team Level

Extends individual coaching listening skills to the complexity of group dynamics. Coaches learn to track multiple voices and systemic patterns simultaneously.

Lesson 1 • Selecting Coaching Activities

Provides a toolkit of structured activities suited to different team needs. Coaches learn to match activities to team readiness and session goals.

Lesson 2 • Opening and Closing Sessions

Covers techniques for starting sessions with focus and ending them with integration. Strong openings and closings maximize session impact.

Lesson 3 • Session Design Principles

Introduces the architecture of a well-designed team coaching session. Connects design choices to desired team outcomes.

Lesson 4 • Virtual and Hybrid Session Design

Adapts session design principles to remote and hybrid team environments. Addresses the unique challenges of coaching distributed teams.

Lesson 1 • Surfacing Hidden Tensions

Teaches techniques for bringing unspoken conflict into the open safely. Addresses the risk of collusion and avoidance in team systems.

Lesson 2 • Understanding Conflict in Teams

Distinguishes productive from destructive conflict and maps common conflict patterns. Provides a conceptual foundation for all conflict-related interventions.

Lesson 3 • Facilitating Conflict Resolution

Provides structured approaches for guiding teams through conflict toward resolution. Builds team capacity to handle future conflict independently.

Lesson 4 • The Coach's Stance in Conflict

Defines the neutral, curious stance a coach maintains when conflict arises. Prevents coaches from being triangulated or taking sides.

Lesson 1 • Handling Setbacks and Plateaus

Prepares coaches to respond when team progress stalls or reverses. Reframes setbacks as data and opportunities for deeper work.

Lesson 2 • Closing the Coaching Engagement

Guides coaches through a purposeful ending that consolidates gains and honors the work. Prevents premature or poorly managed endings.

Lesson 3 • Building Team Self-Sufficiency

Focuses on transferring coaching skills and habits to the team itself. Reduces dependency on the coach and builds lasting capability.

Lesson 4 • Tracking Team Development

Introduces methods for monitoring team progress against coaching goals. Connects ongoing measurement to adaptive coaching decisions.

Lesson 1 • Coaching Teams Through Change

Equips coaches to support teams navigating significant organizational transitions. Addresses the emotional and structural challenges of change.

Lesson 2 • Coaching Leadership Teams

Addresses the unique dynamics and pressures of senior leadership teams. Coaches learn to navigate power, politics, and organizational impact.

Lesson 3 • Systemic Coaching Approaches

Introduces systemic and constellations-based perspectives for team coaching. Expands the coach's lens beyond the immediate team to the wider system.

Lesson 4 • Multi-Team and Cross-Boundary Coaching

Extends coaching practice to inter-team and cross-functional contexts. Coaches learn to work with competing loyalties and boundary tensions.