{"id":996,"date":"2018-11-21T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:49:34","slug":"five-things-to-remember-about-group-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/five-things-to-remember-about-group-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things to Remember About Group Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Coaching4Todays Leaders we\u2019ve been teaching how to coach teams and groups for years, but at a recent training, we got to do this in a new way. In exchange for me coaching their team for free, a company allowed our students to observe the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

This truly brought our training alive, as the students saw everything we teach for themselves. After the training, we went to a caf\u00e9 to sit down and talk about the experience. <\/span><\/p>\n

The lessons included not just what coaches can do, but what team leaders can do to ensure their team gets the most out of the coaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

The five keys to effective coaching for teams and groups<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Team coaching should include the team leader<\/b>. Ideally, I prefer the team leader to also receive 1-on-1 coaching before the team session. In this case, unfortunately, the team leader wasn\u2019t present and hadn\u2019t told the team what to expect from the experience.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Team members need to know why they\u2019re there<\/b>. If they\u2019ve been sent to the session with no explanation, team members are likely to think they\u2019ve done something wrong and the coach is there to fix them. That\u2019s why I start every team session by talking about coaching. <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. You need to build \u2018before rapport\u2019 from the start<\/b>. Right after the discussion of what coaching is, I\u2019ll typically allow time for everyone in the room to talk about who we are as individuals, and who this team is as a group. If this is our first time meeting we won\u2019t know each other at all.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. You need to coach the group and not an individual<\/b>. Sure, there will be times we might want to go deeper into an individual\u2019s comment, but instead, we step back and ask the group what their thoughts were about what they just heard. We must remember that the ultimate goal is to move the team forward. I use the image of a team of horses pulling a carriage. <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. You can\u2019t coach someone who\u2019s not in the room<\/b>. About thirty minutes into our coaching session, the team started talking about their team leader and what they need her to do. \u201cHow can we get her to do that?\u201d I explained that we can\u2019t coach her because she\u2019s not here, but we <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> talk about what the team can do to encourage her, what requests the team can make.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    One final point to offer about coaching teams and groups is the difference between content-free and content-rich coaching. When coaching individuals, we\u2019re taught to bring no agenda, no content, we just show up and let the magic of the coaching process take over. <\/span><\/p>\n

    With groups and teams, however, we can offer content that will really help. It\u2019s beneficial to come in with some richness, so part of what I brought this team was a series of questions \u2013 I adapted them along the way based on the conversation that was happening in the room.<\/span><\/p>\n

    In an ideal world, you\u2019d create your content based on input from the team leader and team members beforehand. But in my experience that rarely happens, which was the case here. So a set of questions that have worked well with other groups can be a great springboard for discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Whatever I bring, I hold loosely \u2013 this is just the starting point, and the starting point is rarely the real issue. And that was the exact case here \u2013 the issues just kept drilling down further and further until we got to the heart of the transformation that needed to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At Coaching4Todays Leaders we\u2019ve been teaching how to coach teams and groups for years, but at a recent training, we got to do this in a new way. In exchange for me coaching their team for free, a company allowed our students to observe the process. This truly brought our training alive, as the students …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"content-sidebar","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}