Author Description

Teams are a crucial part of working life, and they can also be a source of challenges, frustrations and opportunities. This industry first book explores the breadth of approaches available throughout a team coaching engagement narrated through case studies and editorial commentary. It illustrates the eclectic and emergent nature of interventions that enable teams to achieve lasting positive changes in capability. Drawing together 23 cases from multiple theoretical perspectives and industries from team coaching practitioners from across the globe, this book: -Includes the experiences, insights and learning of team leaders and team members as well as the team coaches with quotes and data from each engagement -Offers insight into the original need for the team coaching in each case study -Explores how the team relates to itself, its stakeholders and the wider system -Explains how the team coach or coaches engaged with the team detailing the specific practices the team coach used and the outcomes achieved -Features forewords from leading writers on coaching and team coaching: Nick Smith, Peter Hawkins and Paul Lawrence These features make it a fresh and valuable source of insight and reflection for both novice and experienced team coaches, team leaders, organisational sponsors, and buyers of team coaching. "Readers will take away a tangible sense of current team coaching practice and frameworks and feel more capable, knowledgeable, and confident working with teams." Dr. Catherine Carr, Team Coach, Supervisor and Systemic Team Coaching Instructor, Co-Author of High Performance Team Coaching "This casebook offers inspiration and wisdom from an impressive array of experienced practitioners." Ruth Wageman, PhD., Author of Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make them Great, Founder of 6 Team Conditions "This book presents action research at its best. With its diverse array of settings, the book conveys practical wisdo