Coaching the Team at Work

by Clutterbuck, David

• ISBN13: 9781904838081
• ISBN10: 1904838081
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Summary

Much has been written about coaching individuals, yet there has been little investigation of coaching teams at work. Even in organizations that have made strides towards becoming coaching cultures, the focus has been on the individual, not the team. This failure is now a serious weakness in the abilities of managers at all levels. In this book David Clutterbuck bridges the gap between what is known about team learning and coaching and the practical experience of managers and team coaches. He answers such questions as how team coaching differs from individual coaching, what skills underpin effective team coaching, and how team coaching can be made a sustainable, automatic process.

Author Biography

David Clutterbuck has been a thought leader in coaching and mentoring for the past 25 years. He has written nearly 50 books and hundreds of articles on cutting edge management themes. Clutterbuck lives in the Thames Valley, England with his wife and four sons.

Table of Contents

What Is Coaching?	p. 9
Approaches to coaching	p. 10
The key steps in a coaching intervention	p. 22
The coaching conversation	p. 28
What good coaches do	p. 31
Competences of the coaches	p. 33
Defining the Team	p. 37
What is a team?	p. 38
Types of team	p. 43
What makes a team effective?	p. 55
How teams evolve	p. 72
The coach's repertoire	p. 74
Coaching the Team	p. 77
The business case for team coaching	p. 79
The complexities of team coaching	p. 83
Models of team coaching	p. 94
Coaching or facilitation?	p. 101
Team leading or team coaching?	p. 101
Team building or team coaching?	p. 108
Coaching the top team	p. 113
What effective team coaches do	p. 117
Preparing the team to be coached	p. 121
Becoming truly effective	p. 122
Coaching the Learning Team	p. 123
What is a learning team?	p. 125
Alternative views of team learning	p. 135
Team learning and team knowledge	p. 136
The climate for team learning	p. 139
Six types of team for learning	p. 148
The team learning process	p. 185
Managing Team Coaching	p. 199
Managing interpersonal dynamics	p. 200
Temporal issues	p. 217
Managing key processes	p. 224
Expect the unexpected	p. 239
The Self-Coaching Team	p. 241
Managing the transition to self-coaching	p. 241
Creating the environment for the self-coaching team	p. 245
How team learning roles support the self-coaching team	p. 249
Learning to coach other teams	p. 253
Handing over the coaching process	p. 255
The ultimate goal	p. 258
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 272
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