Team coaching

Finding your team’s voice: a path to organizational success

Team coaching aims to build positivity and alignment within a team. I help teams within organizations find ways to work together more effectively. I support teams in their efforts to find their own voice and determine whether it’s the voice that suits them to face future challenges. In team coaching, I don’t coach individuals – I coach the whole team, principally through exercises, discussions, reading, and homework.

Team coaching helps teams move from ineffective or toxic internal communications that result in:

Low team morale or burnout
Conflict avoidance and non-resolution
Lack of creativity and productivity
Confusion about roles on a team

to a coaching culture in which:

Curiosity builds bridges
Conflict is a sign that something new is trying to happen
An intelligent team is a productive team
Change is inevitable, so the team leads the change
“Leader” is a role shared within the system

How does it work?

I provide a mirror to enable team members to see what is happening among them so that the team understands its strengths. I challenge the team to leverage its strengths to address areas where improvement is needed. Because each team situation is different, the nature or methodology of my interventions will vary. Accordingly, I develop tailor-made proposals based on each team’s needs, always following a four-step approach: diagnostics; team coaching activities; integration; and assessment. For team coaching projects, I partner with The Leadership Circle, a highly-regarded global leadership assessment and development company.

To get started, a few questions

The diagnostic phase starts with an assessment of the leader and/or the team. A cultural survey is often incorporated as well, to enhance efficiency of the coaching process. Here are some questions to consider when deciding whether team coaching is right for your team:

What is the team’s principal challenge today?
What are you (the team) already good at, and how do you want to become better?
In what areas is the team least effective?
What changes are you looking for?
Who is your audience?

For leaders of teams in transition:

How comfortable are you with the way your team is changing?
How actively involved are you in navigating your team’s transformation?
How empowered do you feel in this change?
How empowered do you want to be?
How actively involved do you want to be?
What are the outcomes you can’t satisfy?

Interested? Contact me to discuss your needs or your project.

What they say about me

Tehmeena S.

Lead Market Research

Type: Team coaching, Individual coaching
Consumer goods sector
Place: Toronto, Canada

All of us have strengths and potential that can help us be leaders in our personal and professional lives. Someone who is successful is able to bring out all those strengths and potential to the surface and use them in their day to day. That is exactly what Véronique has helped me do. The most difficult part is recognizing within yourself what you are capable of and remove self-doubt, which Véronique guided me to do with brutal honesty, empathy and an insight which for me has been quite rare. I was skeptical when it came to “coaching,” but the difference in perspective that I have achieved using Véronique’s tools and guidance has made me a believer, and has made me thrive, not only in my professional but also my personal life. It was a thrilling and grueling journey which still has not stopped and I look forward to taking all that I have learnt about myself to make a better version of me.