Systemic Team Coaching

Systemic Team Coaching

Dynamic Process

At True Team we practice systemic team coaching. Systemic team coaching supports teams as they take stock of their performance, relationships and ways of working against the goals and outcomes they need to achieve. It involves workshops and / or live interactions with a team, during its regular team meetings and work sessions. Your coach will contract with the team to identify its priorities and agree objectives and provide insights and observations on how the team is functioning while they go about their work. Engagements often start with a diagnostic, which could be a series of team and stakeholder interviews, and / or a survey to a wider audience about the team’s relationships and performance.

Systemic team coaching is intended to strengthen relationship connectivity in and between the team and the system it works in, such as other teams, partners, suppliers, customers, key stakeholders (such as the Exec team or Board) and the communities surrounding the organisation.

A team coach offers reflection, support and stretch at many levels; individual, team, organisational and environmental. A programme of systemic team coaching will support a team of talented individuals to become greater than the sum of their parts, by providing a structured, facilitated and regular opportunity for the team to get together to tackle a range of challenges, such as:

Agreeing a shared purpose and set of performance goals
Delivering against and managing the expectations of different stakeholders
Increasing pace - running and transforming business areas at the same time (often with fewer resources)
Strategy development
Innovation and new product development
Increasing the team’s capacity for working through conflict
Increasing the team’s resilience to change
Discussing, debating and challenging each other (overcoming group think) on the important issues
Supporting and engaging with remote, virtual teams
Working with partner teams (often with conflicting objectives)
Building trust across the team and with key stakeholders
Developing a learning system that can serve the capacity and capability of each team member
Holding each other to account

Systemic team coaching is done in partnership with the team and serves both the team and what the stakeholder community needs. Normally it is a learning journey, not a one off event. The first step is often a team “check in”, we also offer taster “jump start” packages that may suit a team that needs to re-focus its efforts and overcome a specific challenge quickly.

What our customers say...

"I’m really pleased with the collaboration that has come out of team coaching, it’s been really helpful for you to steer us through this journey”

Stuart Anstead

Partnership Director – North Somerset Council

"On the whole we’ve moved significantly as a team. We do have the odd blip and we need to remind each other what we’ve committed to but on the whole the partnership is a lot stronger"

Steve Mawn

Client Director – Agilisys

"Thank you for all your help and support! The sessions you held were well thought out, catered to what was important to us as a team and really inspired and motivated us to come together!"

Gaya Murugathas

People Team, Thoughtworks

"Just thought I’d update you following our team building workshop. Jane and I went down to the unit together today. What a difference. We were met with smiles and positivity. I have no doubt we will have more challenges ahead, but I think we can draw a line under the past and address potential bad behaviour as and when it happens. Thank you both for your support”

Vic Smith

Service Manager, NHS

I definitely think we’re a stronger team down to these sessions. They’ve given us time to be together and help facilitate better relationships

Rob Liddell

Customer Services Director – Agilisys