Buyers Guide to Team Coaching: Unlocking the Grail of People Engagement
By Bernard Chanliau, Tuesday 09 August, 2011
How Team Coaching breaks through barriers by increasing resilience, neutralising conflict and releasing collaboration By Bernard Chanliau and Lorna McDowellAs never before the pressure is on in organisations to do more with less, except now the grail cup of productivity has an urgent and growing emphasis on the ability to transform, innovate by developing 'high-performance teams' who can drive business results. Additionally, there is new pressure for companies to walk their talk of excellence and join up their disconnected fiefdoms into clear, aligned, collaborative and focused activities that strive for an honourable purpose and celebrate diversity rather than constricting it. The day of the lone ranger is over.
The benefits of working in teams within organisational contexts are well documented and include aspects such as increased responsiveness to challenges (i.e. increased innovation) by bringing together complimentary skills and cross fertilisation of ideas, improved organisational effectiveness and increased performance and productivity.
However, enabling the idea of cross-functional teams in practice is far more involved than gathering a few heads together and hoping for the best. Key to the architecture of success of such initiatives is the development of awareness, capability and process to help the team members function together.
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