Team Coaching

In this episode, you'll hear Nick Ellerby and Glyn Fussell, Oasis Co-Directors, discussing Team Coaching.

If you are already established as a coach, particularly within an organisational setting, or if you've been wondering how you could use your skills and expertise to help teams, then this episode will be a particular interest to you.

We explore what you might need to know before embarking on team coaching, the fundamental differences between coaching and the facilitation of team development and what this might look like in practice. We'll also touch on the qualities and skills that you might need when working with teams

Nick Ellerby has been working in multidimensional culture change for over 30 years. During that time, he's worked as a coach, mentor, consultant, and facilitator locally, nationally, and internationally with a wide variety of different leaders, teams, and organisations.

Additional resources

For those interested in developing self-managing teams and ways of working this will be of benefit - it was co-created by organisations to reflect their practice and encourage others to be more peer based and collaborative.

https://www.oasishumanrelations.org.uk/resources/developing-practice/peerworks-a-guide-to-collaborative-working/

Nick referred to helpful ways of looking at team working, here are links to some of them:

Fundamental Interpersonal Relations - developed by the wonderful Will Shutz, someone we enjoyed working with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interpersonal_relations_orientation#:~:text=The%20theory%20is%20based%20on,%2Fopenness%2C%20control%20and%20inclusion.

The Wisdom of Teams by Katzenberg and Smith - published in the 90s. Its relevance today is remarkable and we suggest related to the quality of research within it. Many of the ingredients of what makes a team, and what makes a group might be timeless. They have produced further publications and there will be no shortage of summaries on-line.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Teams-First-Printing-Katzenbach/dp/B003Q5NAKI/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E4Q8S4A5CWDZ&keywords=the+wisdom+of+words+katzenberg+and+smith&qid=1689346736&s=books&sprefix=the+wisdome+of+words+katzenburg+and+smith%2Cstripbooks%2C63&sr=1-1

For those who want a little more on team coaching…

We love the work of Centre for Creative Leadership and have had links and been partners for decades in relation to developing globally responsible leadership

https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/the-dynamics-of-team-coaching/#:~:text=Team%20coaching%20involves%20a%20single,stretch%20beyond%20their%20current%20abilities.

We also enjoy the work, encouragement and insights that Peter Hawkins brings to this field.

Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership https://amzn.eu/d/jinpC1d

And of course feel free to drop Nick a message if you would like to discuss team coaching for you team - we have a great team of coaches here at Oasis info@oasishumanrelations.org.uk