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How to work as a team coach pair

How to work as a team coach pair

From the course: Team Coaching in a Dynamic World

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How to work as a team coach pair

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- Good practice guidelines recommend having two team coaches. There are lots of very good reasons for this, and here are some of them. First, the team coaching conversation rarely goes as expected. Having a colleague present to intervene when you get stuck is reassuring and it allows you to be more courageous and experimenting. Second, if you are curating the conversation, it's hard to observe the room and your colleague can do just that. Sessions with two coaches have far more interventions where the coach's raise awareness of what's going on in the team dynamics at any point. So we're able to ask, what do you observe about yourselves right now, and what would you like to do about that? Third, this is a great opportunity to role model good teaming behaviors. The team could learn by observing how you interact as a team, or even when you openly discuss how you could have done better as a team of two. Fourthly, debriefing is so much more effective with two of you. When you are in the…

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