#Who said and yet it moves how to#

This can help them to bond and perform better with the project that they need to achieve. Similarly, two team members can share an experience, a personal skill or competence. Think of the covalent bond between two atoms that share a pair of electrons. Exactly as happens in the chemistry of atoms.

#Who said and yet it moves how to#

Within Team Coaching it is important to bring out and highlight that, together with the team, we explore the Team’s values, their limiting beliefs, their potential distortions (as individuals and as a group) and how to strengthen their bonds. Within the Team Coaching it is important to bring out and highlight that, together with the team, we explore the values of the Team, What I mainly try to emphasize during our chemistry meetings with companies (yes, because maybe we need more than one) is that, in a Group Coaching and Team Coaching path, we will work, train and enhance the individual and team skills, that are the basis of improving the performance of the team itself. It is the way meetings are conducted, how questions are being asked, that helps them to explore and identify their needs, their reality and helps the interlocutor to focus on what is working well instead of what their problems are.įor instance, an interesting approach during the meetings, to start a conversation, can be to combine and use in the background two powerful tools, the Appreciative Inquiry and the GROW model. Just like in individual coaching, the solutions in these meetings come from them and not from us (Team Coaches). Try to think how this model could be rethought, in order to help the potential client to trust you and your programs, to continue listening to you and to set up a second or a third meeting, in which to outline a potential Group Coaching Program (GCP) and/or a Team Coaching Program (TCP) with one of the teams that have and need this kind of approach.

One of the powerful tools and approaches studied at Kingstown College, which we use a lot in this phase of developing the rapport and at the beginning of the designing is the Appreciative Inquiry.

If you have a magic wand, what spell would you cast?Īs you can see, all the questions must be deliberately concise, precisely to encourage exploration, the development of creative thinking and the interlocutor’s imagination.

What is the goal that you would like to obtain in the next one or three years?.

Instead of providing solutions, make the questions: This is how we work and in my humble opinion, a must!!! I changed the “I” into “we”, in this article, because all coaching programs with companies are generally designed, shared and delivered by a team of coaches and not by a single professional. Don’t forget of course to build the rapport and use your intuition when needed. As coaches, we have two important muscles that we’ve developed and we should use in this situation as well: active listening and powerful questions. When we start the conversation with a potential new client, we should bear in mind to use and adapt the coaching approach with them during the meeting.

And very few of them have in place a tailored program that really helps the team.

Most of them confirm that they have already a training program in place, but they are not sure on what the results are.

Some of them don’t know exactly what to answer.

When I meet a new HR or L & D Director or Manager, after the icebreaker I love to start with this simple, short and direct question: What helps your teams / organisation the most to move forward?

When I start the conversation with a new prospect, a potential future client, with the idea to offer our coaching products to new organisations, sometimes I love to mention Galileo’s quote, when I see that they are really sceptical about Coaching and Team Coaching.

This phrase was connected to his strong belief that the Earth moved around the Sun. It is a phrase attributed to one of the most famous Italian mathematicians and physicists: Galileo Galilei. And yet it moves, in Italian “ E pur si muove! ”.