Theoretical Theories Of Successful Team Coaching

The goal of this paper it to provide an overview of theoretical models pertaining to the most effective actions required for leading a team. This paper will explore the five disciplines of successful team pracrice, team coaching, and how the five disciplines can be a systemic element withing the process of coaching. Further areas of discussion will include the six-step coaching supervision model and various measurement methods that illuminate team performance. After all of the basic information has been covered, the paper will report on the research of a fortune 500 company, that successfully applies and benefits from using the tools to create and sustain a high performance team.

What is a team?

According to Katzenbach & Smith (1993), a team is, “A small number of people with complementary skills, who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable” ( p. 6). There are several types of teams used to support organizational goals, such as cross functional teams, project teams, self-managed teams, management teams, virtual teams, work teams, employee participation teams and support teams. Work teams, consists of various individuals with different backgrounds and skill sets, bringing a variety of knowledge and wide range of experience together to complete a task.

An effective team, is a team that performs at a higher level than that of an ordinary work team. In the book, Leadership team coaching: Developing collective transformational leaders , the author points out 10 aspects which enables a team to be effective.

1. The team size is smaller to allow manageability.

2. The team is comprised of members with diverse skills that are complimentary to ...

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...clear, collaborative purpose, strategy, core values, and vision.

Six Step Coaching Supervision Model

The use of team coaching has continued to grow a rapid pace, resulting in the need for quality control to justifying the needs of the services being provided and help develop and sustain the coaches abilities. (Hawkins & Schwenk, n.d.) Hawkins created a model for the supervision of team coaches, which, “provides a discipline and framework that ensures the balance of attending to the minimum requisite amount of data to be able to explore the many levels of dynamic (individual, interpersonal, team, organization, wider system, coach relationship with team and team coaching sponsors), before moving on to discover what needs to shift in the team, the coaching relationship and in the coach” (Hawkins, 1993, p.37) .

Measurement Methods that Illuminate Team Performance