Team coaching
When you want to sustainably tap into your team’s potential!
A proud team works together
In proud teams, people truly collaborate. They leverage each other’s strengths and embrace the value of their differences. Communication is open and built on a foundation of trust. This allows them to give honest feedback—focusing on the challenge, not the person. Leaders of these teams provide the space to grow and take ownership, while ensuring a safe environment. Simply put: proud teams go the extra mile for one another!
A proud team improves every day
Members of proud teams spot opportunities for improvement every single day. They dig deep to find the root causes of problems and aren’t afraid to stick their necks out to try something new. Errors are seen as valuable learning experiences. This mindset leads to daily progress that is tangible for customers and contagious to other teams.
A proud team realizes its ambitions
Proud teams share an inspiring vision of the role they play for both customers and colleagues. They are ambitious, focused, and know exactly where they’re headed. By breaking goals down into manageable steps and looking ahead, they stay on track and pivot when necessary. And when they succeed? They celebrate with a sparkle in their eyes!
Becoming a proud team is a skill you can learn
Throughout our lives, we are taught all sorts of things: school teaches us language and math, sports clubs teach us how to play the game, driving schools teach us how to handle a car… we even get a certificate for learning how to tie our shoelaces. But nowhere are we truly taught the art of collaboration.
Instead, we are all thrown into the deep end together. Sometimes we stay afloat just fine, but other times we fail to reach our full potential. That is such a missed opportunity, because there is so much to learn and discover about what makes teamwork truly meaningful and rewarding.
Challenges I can help your team with
Is your team facing any of the following?
We are forming a new (project) team and want to get off to a flying start.
As a team, we are on the verge of a significant change.
We want to improve our collaboration so that we can take flight (again)!
A lot has happened in a short time, and we would like to make a fresh start.
There is friction or tension within our team.
We want to become a self-managing team.
Our ambition could be sharper, and we want to translate that into practical action.
"The high fives in a team—that’s what I do it for!"
Guiding principles
A few leading principles lie at the heart of my work with teams and organizations:
Teams are unique, creative, and resourceful
Teams are remarkably capable of solving their own challenges. Often, ideas and solutions lie hidden beneath the surface, waiting to emerge when a team looks at itself through a different lens. Every team is unique. The better a team can perceive that unique tapestry of connections between its members, the more resilient and resourceful it becomes.
Every voice matters
I believe that every voice carries essential information for the team. Each member holds a piece of the truth. A team that remains curious about “other truths”—even when they feel uncomfortable at first—is a team that truly leverages its diversity.
New insights arise from perceiving differently
As humans, we are trained to rely primarily on our rational minds. While that logical brain is incredibly valuable, there is so much additional wisdom to be discovered by tapping into other ways of perceiving—such as our creative and intuitive faculties. By engaging in playful and interactive methods, a team can access new information, unlocking paths that were previously invisible.
Teams are constantly evolving
Teams are in a state of continuous change, sometimes triggered from the outside (like a reorganization) and often from within. Change often brings uncertainty. The most agile teams don’t avoid difficult situations; instead, they are curious about what those moments can teach them.
Learning sticks best in a practice
Teams learn most effectively when their experiences align with their real-world needs. Those needs are the North Star when designing a coaching or guidance program. Conversely, new insights and behaviors only truly stick when they are applied and practiced in a daily, practical context.