Team or group coaching focuses on the group’s relationship within an organizational system. It is about gaining an understanding of how each member forms, changes, or improves upon the group’s interactions and effectiveness.

In group coaching we begin by assessing how the group understands individually and collectively their business relationship. Next we outline the group’s expectations for accomplishment. From that shared understanding we are able to formulate the desired group goals, outline the obstacles that challenge the group’s achievements (creating steps for getting beyond them), and redefine the system and a strategy for realizing overall group success.

Applying coaching from a systems perspective requires recognition and appreciation for the complex organizational dynamics in which professionals operate as a group. In order to ensure a systemic approach, each member of a group is encouraged to shift their viewpoint -- from seeing themselves as separate to recognition of their interdependence with other people and processes in the organization.

Basically, coaching helps the group see the “forest and the trees.” By thinking in terms of the big picture and core issues, the group:

* Understands long- and short-term strategies

* Grasps how these strategies fit together as a whole

* Appreciates the impact of their own behavioral change on other facets of their business

* Sets powerful, achievable goals and acts on them

* Has professional support and backing to make shared decisions and effective changes