Team coaching: improving collaboration in the long term
As a coaching organization, we use team coaching to increase the efficiency and performance of teams. Our coaches accompany and support teams over a longer period of time in order to sustainably improve cooperation and increase satisfaction. We focus on clarity of objectives and roles, optimization of communication processes and constructive conflict resolution.
Team coaching is a structured, participative process that involves all team members equally and makes their individual strengths and team dynamics visible. The problem-solving skills of all team members are utilized for the respective challenges. In this way, we promote responsibility and commitment for the changes developed in the process.
Once the coaching has been completed, the team can work together more effectively and apply the newly acquired skills in everyday life.
Why team development through team coaching?
Through team coaching, we promote better collaboration and more effective communication so that teams achieve their goals faster and more efficiently. Team coaching improves team dynamics, resolves conflicts and increases employee motivation and satisfaction, which in turn strengthens employee loyalty.
Through team coaching, we support team members in recognizing and utilizing their individual strengths and identifying development potential. This enables each member to better understand their role and make the best use of their skills, making the entire team more successful.
We strengthen self-determination skills in the team by teaching members to take responsibility, make decisions and resolve conflicts independently. This leads to motivated and successful cooperation in the long term.
We recommend holding team coaching sessions as face-to-face events, as trust is best built through personal encounters. If it is not possible to bring the team together for (all) coaching sessions in person, we also offer effective interactive online team coaching sessions, especially if this corresponds to the working reality of the team.
As a coaching organization, we use team coaching to increase the efficiency and performance of teams. Our coaches accompany and support teams over a longer period of time in order to sustainably improve cooperation and increase satisfaction. We focus on clarity of objectives and roles, optimization of communication processes and constructive conflict resolution.
Team coaching is a structured, participative process that involves all team members equally and makes their individual strengths and team dynamics visible. The problem-solving skills of all team members are utilized for the respective challenges. In this way, we promote responsibility and commitment for the changes developed in the process.
Why team development through team coaching?
By working better together and communicating more effectively, team members can achieve their goals faster and more efficiently. In addition, team coaching can also help to positively change team dynamics, resolve conflicts within the team and increase employee motivation. These aspects also contribute to employee satisfaction and strengthen employee loyalty.
Team coaching can also help team members to recognize and utilize their individual strengths and identify development potential. By each team member better understanding their role in the team and optimally utilizing their skills, the entire team can be more successful.
Team coaching can also help to strengthen self-determination skills within the team. By teaching team members to take responsibility, make decisions and resolve conflicts independently, they can work together more successfully and with greater motivation in the long term.
We recommend holding team coaching sessions as face-to-face events. Team coaching is particularly about trust between team members and with their manager. In our experience, this trust develops faster and better when people meet physically and spend time together. However, if for logistical reasons it is not possible for the team to come together for (all) coaching events in person, effective team coaching can also be carried out via video call, especially if this corresponds to the team’s working reality.
Typical occasions for team coaching
In principle, all topics that make a team successful are suitable for team coaching:
Formation of new teams or personnel changes
- for new projects, tasks, functions
- when companies grow or expand
- by dividing existing teams
- as a result of restructuring & management changes
- Enlargement/reduction of a team
- Fluctuation
Conflicts within the team
- Open – personal or work-related – conflicts between individual team members
- Conflicts between individuals or the entire team and the manager
- Intercultural conflicts in multicultural teams
Transformation and change processes
- Companies are constantly changing: from restructuring to digitalization
- These changes always have an impact on teamwork and are often met with resistance and uncertainty.
- Team coaching helps to support employees, turn resistance into opportunities and maintain team performance.
Declining productivity
- Lack of clarity of objectives, roles and tasks
- Suboptimal work organization
- Missing or unused skills/potential
- Lack of trust within the team/with the manager
Ideally, teams are accompanied by coaching during their team-building phase in order to set the course for productive and conflict-free collaboration right from the start.
In practice, however, we see that team coaching is often only requested when there are already tensions or conflicts in the team and these have a negative impact on both the performance of the team and the well-being of its members. With team coaching, we can also achieve valuable results here and make the team efficient again by resolving conflicts and defusing potential conflicts.
What content is discussed?
- Clarify goals: We help the team to define common and individual goals in order to create a clear direction.
- Making strengths visible: We recognize and activate the skills and potential of team members.
- Improve collaboration: We adjust the allocation of roles, tasks and responsibilities to ensure optimal collaboration.
- Optimize communication: We develop a positive communication and feedback culture and clear team rules.
- Conflict resolution: We strengthen the team’s ability to resolve conflicts and put an end to frictional losses through constructive conflict resolution strategies.
- Strengthening a sense of unity and team identity: We deepen personal relationships, common identity and team cohesion.
- Mastering challenges: We make the team more crisis-proof and resilient in order to successfully master current and future challenges.
- Mastering digital transformation: We support the team in successfully mastering the digital transformation by strengthening digital skills, promoting adaptability and integrating technological changes.
- Introducing agile working methods: We promote the introduction of agile methods and principles in order to increase flexibility, speed and efficiency in the team.
Psychological safety and effective moderation for successful team coaching
At the beginning of each team coaching session, we deliberately take a lot of time to create an atmosphere of trust in which all participants gradually feel comfortable and safe to express their ideas, questions, concerns or fears. This is about trust within the team and with the manager as well as trust in our coach. Creating this psychological security for everyone involved is a central goal of our kick-off event.
In addition, professional moderation of team coaching sessions is crucial to success. Our systemic team coaches take on the many challenges that arise in team coaching processes and turn these challenges into opportunities:
- We moderate discussions in a motivating, impartial and consensus-oriented manner by taking all opinions, contributions and objections into account.
- We ask open and solution-oriented questions, strengthen the group’s self-efficacy and thus facilitate a goal-oriented discussion.
- We create an open and trusting environment and ensure a safe and positive atmosphere.
- We are approachable, humorous and energetic and activate the participants with a mix of systemic-interactive methods that incorporate cognitive and visual elements as well as movement.
- We respect, value and strengthen each individual team member.
- We make conflicts in the team discussable and de-escalate tensions effectively.
- We keep the conversation on track and confidently bring discussions to clear , consensus-based decisions.
- We utilize the resources and, in particular, the creativity of the entire team and develop sustainable solutions together.
- Together, we derive concrete action steps and measures with responsibilities and visualize the course of the discussion and all results.
A typical team coaching process
Preparation
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Clarification of the assignment: In a preliminary meeting, we gain an overview of the team dynamics and specific challenges. A representative of the HR department and the manager usually take part.
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Kick-off event: The current situation is analyzed with the entire team and the manager and specific goals are defined. All. We involve all team members on an equal footing and take everyone’s needs and perspectives into account.
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Formulation of objectives: The team jointly sets specific objectives for the coaching. These serve as a compass for the entire process and help with planning and implementation.
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Customized concept: We develop an individual concept based on the kick-off event. We forecast the time frame and draw up a schedule. If necessary, we recommend accompanying individual coaching or mediation.
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Interactive formats: We rely on diverse, interactive formats that are cognitively and visually appealing, promote exchange and collaboration in different participant constellations and strengthen the sense of togetherness. Our goal is a positive and sustainable change in team dynamics.
Implementation
- Welcome and introduction: Warm welcome and interactive introduction. Overview of the entire coaching process.
- Goal comparison: Reminder of the overarching goal and review of progress to date. Presentation of the aim of the day and the procedure.
- Warm-up: activity to get you in the mood for the day. Clarification of participants’ expectations and needs.
- Reflection: Discussion of implementation successes, failures and findings. Space for appreciation, frustrations, fears and resistance.
- Target review: Confirmation or adjustment of the formulated target, if necessary.
- Topic work in small groups: Development of the coaching topic in small groups using methods such as directional statements “Away from Towards”, SWOT or retrospectives. Presentation and discussion of the solutions as well as consensus moderation in plenary.
- Lunch break: Joint break to recharge your batteries and exchange ideas.
- Practical exercises or further topics: Deepening the solutions through practical exercises or working on further aspects.
- Conclusion: Derivation of concrete action steps, responsibilities and measures. Summary of results and next steps. Feedback round and outlook for the next coaching session.
Follow-up
Follow-up
- Photo protocol and summary: Preparation of a photo protocol and summary of the results and measures.
- Long-term anchoring: Ensuring that positive changes are anchored in the long term and that the team continues to work together effectively.
What our coaches bring to the table
Our team consists of certified coaches with extensive experience in team development and organizational consulting. They have in-depth specialist knowledge and strong interpersonal skills to support their team in the best possible way:
- Moderation: Targeted, neutral moderation that successfully engages all participants, especially silent ones, using systemic methods and creates an open, trusting framework.
- Team and leadership skills: improving team dynamics, defining clear roles and processes, promoting an open communication and feedback culture and implementing modern leadership principles.
- Conflict resolution: Extensive experience in the analysis, moderation and mediation of conflicts, as well as in dealing with crisis situations.
- Change management: Many years of experience in supporting and implementing digital transformation processes and introducing agile working methods.
- Business management know-how: Extensive management experience from numerous industries and functions.
- Intercultural competence: Several years of experience abroad and an understanding of cultural differences.
- Multilingualism: Workshops are held in German, English and French.
As a well-coordinated team, we are also happy to conduct team workshops in pairs or larger teams, depending on the size of the group. Legally, our coaches act as individual contractors.
Our premises
Our modern and attractively designed premises in Cologne offer the ideal setting for intensive and productive in-house training. They are equipped with the latest technology and provide an inspiring environment that encourages creative thinking and effective collaboration.
Coachingwerk
Weinsbergstr. 190
50825 Köln-Ehrenfeld
Would you like to find out more about our team workshops and coaching sessions or make an appointment? Please feel free to contact us by phone or e-mail. We look forward to supporting your team on the road to successful collaboration.