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AOEC Press Systemic Team Coaching by John Leary-Joyce Hilary Lines
Systemic Team Coaching STC is a complex and powerful intervention in organisations. We define it as: A process of coaching the whole team together and apart over a designated period of time to enable it toAlign on common purpose Collaborate and learn through diversity Develop collective leadership Achieve performance objectives Effectively engage with their key stakeholders Jointly transform the wider business To achieve this STC draws on a range of adult and organisational learning theories and practices that includeIndividual Coaching Group Coaching of managers/leaders who share an interest in a project but have no collective responsibility Team Building activities to develop a new team or one in a transitional stage to value and utilise diversity and difference Team Facilitation of a meeting process to help the team be more effective eg. in decision making InterTeam Coaching facilitation of teams in the wider system to collaborate Organisational Development attending to how the team impacts and is impacted by organisation The systemic team coach views the team through 6 LensesIndividual team members Interpersonal relationships Team Dynamics Team Tasks strategy objectives systems Stakeholder interfaces Wider Systemic Forces The 5 Disciplines Framework is the key structure that addressed the internal and external elements and guides the systemic team coach in attending to where the team needs to work to be most effective. These are: Stakeholder Expectations what the team needs to deliver to external parties Team Tasks what the team does internally to meet those expectations Team Relationships interpersonal and leadership dynamics internally to the team Stakeholder Relationships how the team connects to those it serves Team Learning how the team develops to meet future challenges A diagnostic tool Team Connect 360 that generates valuable data on the performance of the team now and after the STC intervention is explained and available for use.The 5 Phase SIDER STC Process is a robust and practical method for engaging with a team. It involvesScoping the initial work with the Sponsor and Team Leader Inquiry generating data into the how the team is performing against the 5 Disciplines (use of TC360) Developing an agenda for the work with the Sponsor and Team Execution of that agenda through coaching with the team Review and evaluation of results Case studies and examples are given throughout to illustrate how the theory is applied in practiceThe book addresses other important elementsHow to develop the personal and skills capability do deliver STC The courses to attend to take forward the material presented Practical guidance on how to build and STC practiceshow more