Expanding Your Team and Group Coaching Toolkit – Coaching Many Toolkit
In
celebration of our 15th anniversary which I kick off this month, I’m
starting a new blog series here at the Group Coaching Ins and Outs blog. One of
the most important things I’ve learned from being in business for this long is
the importance of consistency, and consistency over time. Rather than doing
something once, do It three times. With this in mind, I’m committed to sharing
a weekly blog post around a different tool in building your team and group
coaching toolkit.
The
tagline for my most recent series of
workbook planners (the Coaching Business Builder and PlanDoTrack) is
“Consistent Action + Daily Steps = Momentum).
In a team context, we are supporting the team around their
collective goals, most of the time. The challenge is in helping individual team
members connect their goals with the collective team goals, and find alignment across the team.
What’s unique is when we are coaching a virtual or remote
team. In these instances, the virual and remote team members may have a
radically different primary focus, AND they will still need to find the connection
to the meta-goals of the team and/or group. In these instances, coches who work
with virtual and remote teams will want to regularly revisit with them how they
are operating as a “grouping”. Are they more of a group or a team? What are the other matrix relationships
they are part of - -how does that impact this team membership?
Some of the tools we may work with in coaching around goals
include:
- Exploring goals by using a variety of frameworks – from SMART, to WOOP, to PURE and CLEAR. There are many different goal frameworks espoused. What are the frameworks your clients are using? What have they found useful.
- Exploring the link between collective goals and individual goals, as well as team vs. organizational goals;
- Coaching individuals on short term, medium-term and long term goals
- Working around vision – goal setting without an anchor in the bigger picture of a person’s, team or organization’s vision can start to lose energy and momentum over time. As I write in the Coaching Business Builder “Our vision pull us through the choppy and sometimes turbulent waters of business and life". |
Six Coaching Questions around goals:
1. What's important about
this goal? (it may be framed in the big picture? Short term? Long term?)
2. What will success look like?
3. What outcomes do you want?
4. What might get in the way? (or what could be a roadblock?)
5. What resources do you need to be successful? (OR What will help you be successful?)
6. When you are successful with this, what's possible?
2. What will success look like?
3. What outcomes do you want?
4. What might get in the way? (or what could be a roadblock?)
5. What resources do you need to be successful? (OR What will help you be successful?)
6. When you are successful with this, what's possible?
What is important for you to note around goals in your work
as a group and team coach right now?
Enjoy the conversation!
With best wishes,
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development)
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
Follow along with the #90DaysPlanDoTrack series over at Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder
Join the conversation at the Conversation Sparker Zone - our online community where you can explore virtual and team issues, coaching, productivity and business development)
Join us for an upcoming ICF CCE approved program - Group Coaching Essentials, Advanced Group and Team Coaching PRacticum or the Virtual Facilitation Essentials
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