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Team Coaching: What are you Buying?
 In recent months, there has been much interest in team coaching as a route to improving leadership effectiveness. The array of team programmes on the market is very varied with extreme differences in the approach and level of depth and rigour with which participants are challenged.
Hitting the right note between a "great day out", a set of training manuals that never leave the office shelf, and a deeply transformational experience which changes not just the the whole thinking about participant's work and role but adds strategic business value well beyond the people who attended the programme, starts with understanding what it is you are buying, how you might need to shift your thinking as organisation and what a programme needs to achieve, before you jump onto a partnership with a vendor who could be under-experienced for the complexity of your organisation's unacknowledge actual requirements.
We find that prospective buyers are often able to articulate the problems, but are less able to articulate what they require in in a provider, and even less able to clearly articulate desired outcomes except in very general terms. Whilst one might accept that it's hard to set hard and fast targets when it comes to the "soft stuff", it can also be an excuse for avoidance of accountability.
This month we dedicate our e-zine to explaining Xenergie's approach and ethos around coaching and development for improved team engagement.
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Unlocking the Grail of People Engagement
by Bernard Chanliau and Lorna McDowell How Team Coaching breaks through barriers by increasing resilience, neutralising conflict and releasing collaboration As 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.
Awareness refers to how in touch we are with what is happening around us. Until coached and without regular feedback, people remain blissfully ignorant of their own blind spots and impacts, meaning that their collaboration efforts will be limited by their own performance. Typically, much attention has been paid to the differences between people and their behaviours - psychometric profiling such as Belbin Team Roles and Myers Briggs are commonly used and very helpful as a simple tool to help develop self-awareness. However, awareness is simply a foundation of information with which we can work, it does not create and ability or capability to perform.
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Reminder: Belbin Team Working Open Public Certification Workshop, Dublin, 20-22nd September 2011 - 3 places left due to unique pricing €450pp!! by Bernard Chanliau
 Learn how to improve and recognise your team's 'personality' and enhance your Team Working culture. This 2.5-days course provides participants with the knowledge and skills on how to use the Belbin model to improve individual, team, and organisational performance.
Great tool to start your Team Coaching Engagements whether you are an external coach or internal change agent working inside an organisation.
Please register or call Niamh Collins ( T: +353(1) 7006762) with the Entrepreneur Skillnet (DCU Ryan Academyin Dublin for this course - registration closes 23/08.
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