Learning team coaching at Henley Business School

Around a month ago I started my learning journey at Henley Business School. In the module 1 we had in Copenhagen we got to know each other and learn basics from the team coaching and it differenciates from facilitation and other methods used to increase team cooperation and team’s performance.

Today at 27th April I am writing this text at Henley Business School super nice environment by the river and enjoying after the first day of the module 2. Today we learned more about the team coaching methods and practices and get to do multiple exercises with our team of future team coaches. Thank you all group members for the enjoyable day and looking forward for the following days!

What is team coaching?

There are multiple ways to define team coaching, but I really liked the one below. It defines very well that team coaching is not only for the team, but also for the company, aims to change things for the better, and increased the performance and future potential. Rather comprehensive definition!

“Team Coaching helps teams work
together, with others and within
their wider environment, to create
lasting change by developing safe
and trusting relationships, better
ways of working and new thinking,
so that they maximise their collective
potential, purpose and performance
goals”

Widdowson & Barbour, 2019

There is one rather good question related to team coaching and that would be why to develop high-performing teams?

According to the studies we learned, it increases the economic return by 23% (Source: Price and Toye, 2017) and the increase in financial return when a team has a clear purpose and line of sight of company goals is 29% (McKinsey). It seems that more and more companies should utilize team coaching to support high-performance of their teams.

Wageman et al, 2008 have defined 6 conditions of highly effective leadership team The Essentials and The Enablers, that should be in place.

The Essentials:
• Real Team
• Right People
• Compelling Direction

The Enablers:
• Solid Structure
• Supportive Context
• Team Coaching

We will now 2 more days to study and in addition the third module in Helsinki in June. Our learning will continue until the end of the year and I will write more about about the upcoming study days and team coaching practice sessions with customers.

In case you are interested, you may learn more about the school and the program via this website https://www.henley.ac.uk/