Create A High Functioning Team
The efficacy of a team is determined by many factors. At its core, a highly functioning team learns how to communicate and collaborate more effectively, enabling faster and deeper ideation, decision-making, and functional execution. The sum of these actions translates to consistently improved outcomes.
To deliver top-tier results, teams must adapt quickly, build resiliency, and commit to actions with a “full-body yes.” This means moving past individual agendas, egos, underutilized strengths, absent voices, poor coordination, and a lack of clarity around their purpose. These factors impact decision-making, meeting effectiveness, proper resource allocation, results, and more. Expert Team Coaching Services are about using dialog, reflection, and experimentation to evoke greater team awareness and learning, leading to stronger team behaviors and greater effectiveness. As the Navy Seal’s mantra states…
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”
The best teams are those that understand the overall goal, while working together to achieve that goal. That means understanding individual strengths and responsibilities, working for the good of the team, and keeping all lines of communication wide open. When it comes to Career Team Coaching, the overarching goal is to support the team. That means focusing on the hard work of improving how a team transparently communicates, collaborates, and assigns work, addresses performance detractors, and drives the alignment necessary to optimize the team’s full potential.
Crescendo Coaching Group offers business Team Coaching with a focus on the team as its own entity, where each participant is part of an intact team aligned around a common purpose. This differs from Group Coaching, where a cross-section of individuals join together for coaching on a common set of topics.
What To Expect
Team coaching sessions begin with the coach working with the sponsor or team leader to clarify and align specific session goals. The team then communicates with the leader to create the team coaching engagement norms, review the initial team assessment, and select a primary area of focus. During regular career team coaching sessions, the coach will guide the group to explore a specific team behavior aligned with their goal, with a focus on both implicit and explicit team strengths, obstacles, systems impact, and stakeholder expectations. This is to determine what is working and what is not. The team also explores potential solutions through active experiments and the creation of possible solutions to implement.
In-person coaching may be included to observe and coach teams in their natural work-meeting environment. Like pausing live-action sports, the coach will observe and share how the team is employing their planned solution.
Professional team coaches meet with the sponsor/team leader over regular check-in sessions. For some team engagement goals, personal development coaching may be provided to each team member to strengthen the overall team coaching impact. At the conclusion of the career or business coaching engagement, the team will complete and debrief a post-engagement team assessment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Alignment of goals across team members is only the start. We help teams understand the why behind their motivations and behaviors. This allows for clearer communication and healthier collaboration that leverages team member strengths to support the team goals versus digging in on individual team agendas.
We help teams break down the barriers to truly be high performing. Assembling a group of high performers by itself will not create to the stellar results you expect from a high performing team. We help leaders and teams navigate relational and system dynamics so they master how to work together in consistently creating masterful outcomes.
Obviously, teams are comprised of individuals, and it is the individual’s unique approach and preferences combined with norms that team has developed that can stagnate a team’s progress. We work with team to become more aware of their behavior patterns so they can make better choices which support the team’s purpose and goals.
Trust is a foundational part of team effectiveness and the lack of trust erodes teams from the inside out. Team Coaching creates a safe and brave space for your team to have those hard discussions that will enable trust to anchor the team’s growth and effectiveness.
How effectively a team communicates and collaborates with each other determines their ability to reach their full success potential. We work closely with teams to explore their inter-dynamics of how they do what they do. Through team coaching the team, as its own entity, undergoes a transformation through discovering how each team member interacts to either propel the team forward, or to hold it back. We have found that having a team of all stars operating in their own silos actually reduces the team’s overall effectiveness. Work with us to discover how to take your team to the next level.
Effective teams are open and candid in a professional way, but personal bias can get in the way. We explore with the team new ways to enable real discussion and candor so the team, as its own entity, remains healthy and gossip and backtalking is eliminated.
Rules and processes are necessary to support the scalability of any business. However, sometimes they get in the way. Team leaders come to us to understand what is holding their team back from getting to the next level. We engage with the leader and the team to uncover what processes or norms might be working against their ability to achieve their full potential. The effectiveness of the team has a direct, positive correlation to the results they deliver.
How would you honestly characterize the trust within your team and the willingness of each team member to get their voice in the room. As experienced business leaders, we know the importance of driving commitment to actions and results across the team. We work with teams to build a greater foundation of trust and to enable each team member, regardless of their perspective, to commit and deliver for the team’s target outcomes.
