As modern-day sports team coaching has taught us, the most successful teams work together to utilize each person’s strengths to elevate the entire team to success. Team coaching in business typically takes this same approach, but often has more narrow view. It focuses on how to get a specific team to work better amongst themselves versus how their specific team can work with other stakeholders within the organization to have a more successful business. This, in essence, is the basis of Systemic Team coaching.

A Systemic Team Coaching engagement works with a team within an organization to help them improve both their collective performance — how they work together, and how they develop their collective leadership — to more effectively engage with all key stakeholder groups with the intention to transform the wider business.  

What makes Systemic Team Coaching most valuable to businesses today is that it enables the team to reframe and enhance the way it relates to and serves its business environment. This means placing equal emphasis on how it leads change with its stakeholders and how it functions internally.

Systemic Team Coaching is a holistic, whole team approach to coaching. It recognizes that the biggest challenges in nearly all organizations today do not lie inside the individuals, teams or even departments, but in the connections between them. Systemic Team Coaching can help redefine how teams work together to the benefit and success of the entire organization.

By looking at how teams operate, how they make decisions and how they communicate with key stakeholders throughout your organization, Systemic Team Coaching can help your business build and enhance overall business performance and is an excellent option for those organizations who are looking to:

• Develop and encouraging high-performance teams to drive business growth
• Manage changes in leadership
• Continue to operate at high levels during mergers and acquisitions
• Navigate through a reorganization
• Address disconnects in current team structures
• Address culture issues impacting how teams connect and work towards a common goal
• Identify new ways to structure and operate internal teams more effectively

The main goal of systemic team coaching is to work with a whole team, both when they are together and when they are apart, in order to help them improve both their collective performance and how they work together.

• Enable teams to navigate the challenges of today’s hyper-complex and fast-changing world
• Facilitate teams to work with each other and every stakeholder across the organization
• Help leaders best operate within this new team-based model
• Help team members think beyond themselves and their own team to consider the organization’s larger objectives as a whole
• Help teams develop clarity of purpose
• Help teams explore and adhere to their values and ethics
• Embrace a team culture and optimize organizational development with team coaching
• Embed team-based thinking into every level of the operation — from the individual to the ecosystem — ensuring organizations stay relevant during any major transition
• Help organizations fully optimize and mobilize teams in this new virtual environment
• Provide best practices and tools for handling complex team cases in an organization
• Enable adaptation in an organization so it can meet the demands of a fast-changing world

As a certified systemic team coach, Christine brings knowledge of team processes, interpersonal dynamics, common obstacles, and focused design methods to support the team in creating effective team norms and to achieve self-sufficiency in retaining these approaches after the engagement ends.

Want to learn more about Systemic Team Coaching and how it can benefit your organization or address your current business needs? Please reach out to set up an introductory call!