High Potential Coaching for Teams goes beyond the traditional notions of team coaching to one based on deeper self-awareness, greater openness, full accountability and empathic collaboration. This model provides an excellent opportunity for executive teams, management teams and work teams to go beyond their current performance level. Teams identify sources of creativity and empowerment that enable them to go beyond their perceived limitations, carry out strategic plans creatively, and achieve goals with ease. With coaching, teams are able to make a more vital contribution to their organizations and the community.
We believe that self-awareness is essential for every member of the team and so we use the full spectrum of FIRO® based assessment tools. Equally important is the ability to handle oneself effectively while interacting in the multiplicity of environments and relationships required on a team. Anything that is deemed necessary to develop the personal and interpersonal skills required of a team member or develop the capacity of the team to work as a unit, falls in the realm of the coaching relationship.
The High Potential coach collaborates with the team to design an action plan and strategies for implementation in the agreed upon target areas. The coach provides resources that can enable the team members to:
- Develop Greater Self-awareness
- Use FIRO instruments to measure and assess behaviors and beliefs
- Develop a greater capacity to discern and acknowledge blind spots
- Capitalize on strengths
- Learn self-coaching strategies to manage emotions and behavior more effectively
- Discover inner resources that allow for greater clarity, vision, and flexibility
- Develop greater self-trust and improve internal decision-making process
- Become more productive
- Hone Interpersonal Skills
- Improve communication skills: listen well, speak openly, and receive feedback graciously
- Handle misunderstandings with ease
- Decrease defensiveness and improve all relationships
- Ask positive and effective questions
- Model self-responsibility
- Collaborate effectively with peers and subordinates at every level of the organization
- Develop empathy and increase capacity to work collaboratively
- Cultivate Leadership Skills and Team Skills
- Develop presence
- Develop ability to articulate opinions and feelings passionately and non-defensively
- Represent the organization’s values
- Interact effectively with the public
- Demonstrate authenticity, flexibility, insight and integrity
- Develop an ally approach and learn to support team members to go beyond perceived limitations and into peak performance
- Learn to lead and follow gracefully
- Develop coaching and mentorship skills
- Deliver critical feedback constructively
- Model caring, respect, excellence, cooperation, collaboration and accountability
- Interact effectively with other cross functional teams
- Improve Team Performance
- Inspire trust and collaboration
- Create an environment that supports employees to feel significant, competent and appreciated
- Improve the decision making process on the team
- Manage and resolve conflict
- Encourage diversity and creativity
- Facilitate and/or participate in meetings more effectively
- Celebrate accomplishments
We provide team coaching services at off-site retreats, on site through observation of meetings and work-life, as well as facilitation of challenging dialogues in pairs and small groups. We are also available to do tele-conferencing. Evaluation is built in throughout the life of the coaching relationship. The team is encouraged to assess and measure their progress, to give feedback to the coach regarding the efficacy of the services provided, and to receive feedback from peers, subordinates, supervisors and the coach.
