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Scoping and contracting a team coaching assignment

Scoping and contracting a team coaching assignment

From the course: Team Coaching in a Dynamic World

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Scoping and contracting a team coaching assignment

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- There's only so much that can be achieved in a handful of team coaching sessions. In this video, we're focusing on how to ensure we don't promise too much or too little. Generally, sessions last no more than three hours maximum. People just can't concentrate intensively for much longer than this. So it's important to be realistic about what to focus on. Typically, you might define together two or three key outcomes. For example, shorter, more productive team meetings, two or three changes in collective behavior, and two or three improvements in working process. There's also a golden door. Everything may change. The team exists in a dynamic environment, so what's important today is likely to be different tomorrow. So a team coach has got to be really flexible and to join the team where it is in the moment, rather than try to drive through an agenda. Sometimes that might mean briefly dropping out of coach mode and into, say, facilitation or team building. So right from the beginning…

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