Finance Monthly. Leadership Special Feature 29 Unlike one-to-one coaching you might be more familiar with, Team Coaching explores issues related to collective performance, enabling the team to recognize and manage influences on its performance, now and in the future. Team coaching takes a systemic view of those influences, which may concern the team’s internal dynamics and how it interacts with its stakeholders. Dealing with diverse personalities and working styles can be challenging in a team coaching environment. How do you approach these dynamics to create an inclusive and beneficial coaching environment? Throughout my corporate career, I was responsible for leading and collaborating with diverse teams worldwide, which allowed me to work with diverse personalities and working styles. Inclusion relates to belief and behavior. It’s the magic sauce that activates and releases the power of diversity. I use three main ways to create an inclusive and beneficial coaching environment. 1. Imagine an iceberg; as a coach, I create trust, safety, and connection to help people explore what is above and below the waterline and assist them in exploring layers and perspectives. I encourage teams to utilize different lenses that allow them to understand and navigate the culture of their organization and as part of a more extensive ecosystem. 2. I can raise awareness of where I notice specific biases in the team. As an outside pair of eyes, I am in an ideal position to notice what they cannot do from within. Helping the team identify their fundamental Inclusion relates to belief and behavior. It’s the magic sauce that activates and releases the power of diversity. Team Coaching explores issues related to collective performance, enabling the team to recognize and manage influences on its performance, now and in the future.
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