| Think of it this way |
The best teams engage in lifelong learning and development (think of your favorite successful sports team).
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| If the 1st time you address relationship issues is the divorce court, you have left it to late. As one of my favorite CEO’s once said, “The best time to mend the roof is when the sun is shining”. |
| A team can perform at more than the sum of its parts or less than the sum of the parts. It is important to focus on the teams added value. What is it that their collective strength brings to the organization. |
| Team coaching is also about how the team relates to all its stakeholders and is aligned to the wider organization. |
| Team performance happens with the team, or the sub-parts of it, engage with the collective task and the teams stakeholders. The team meeting by itself is the training ground, not the match. |
| Team coaching can be assisted by off-site away days but the core development happens in the heat of working together and with stakeholders. |
| Absolute trust between humans is a unrealizable goal, particularly in work teams. A more useful goal is the team members trusting each other enough to disclose their mistrust. |
| Too much or to little conflict is unhelpful in a team. Great teams can creatively work through the conflicting needs in their wider system. |
| A team is defined by having a shared enterprise that cannot be achieved by the members working out of connection with each other. |
| Team coaching is only valuable when it is linked to improving the teams business performance and its contribution to the performance of the wider organization. |
