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Team Coaching

Create alignment, trust and high performance through our professional team coaching designed for leadership teams navigating complexity, transition and growth.

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Team coaching creates aligned teams who achieve high performance through collective learning, cohesion and collaboration

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Organizations investing in team development reported 31% higher leadership effectiveness scores compared to those focusing solely on individual development*
* 2024 Global Leadership Development Study, Harvard Business Publishing

Unlock team performance

Team coaching is the fast track to unlock collective team performance. It meets the growing demand for collective learning experiences and real-time feedback.

Organizations that recognize the value of team alignment coaching see not only stronger collaboration and decision-making but also better business outcomes.

So investing in coaching for teams isn’t just a leadership strategy, it’s a strategic business advantage.

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What is team coaching?

Team coaching is a powerful executive team development process that enables entire teams to grow, collaborate and perform at their best. Unlike 1:1 executive coaching, which focuses on individual development, a team coach works with the team as a dynamic system – unlocking the team’s intelligence and potential through improved relationships, communication and shared purpose.

With our flexible delivery of in-person or virtual team coaching sessions and our transformational coaching approach, leadership teams are expertly supported to build psychological safety, resolve tension and operate with greater clarity and cohesion.

Why team coaching matters now

In today’s volatile and fast-changing environments, high-performing teams are not formed by chance – they are intentionally developed.

In our bestselling guide to Coaching for Performance, Sir John Whitmore and Tiffany Gaskell reveal how coaching builds the qualities that teams need for success:

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Agile and adaptable

Teams have shorter timescales than ever before to meet business challenges and adapt to change. Global mobility and remote working bring diversity to teams that requires greater flexibility of mindset. Coaching fosters agility and adaptability at the team level.
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Collaborative

Teams often struggle to collaborate. Coaching builds team trust, improves relationships and increases open communication. It creates alignment and removes conflict in teams by focusing on common values, principles and shared vision.
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Creative and innovative

Coaching the team as a whole mobilizes collective intelligence. It creates an energizing environment where the team can innovate together and tap into their resourcefulness. It strengthens shared thinking and information sharing.

Leadership teams are struggling

LHH’s latest annual survey identifies factors hindering team effectiveness.
23%

of CEOs see collaboration and teamwork as one of the largest capability gaps impacting leader effectiveness

26%

of leaders identified a lack of cohesion within the senior leadership team

43%

of leaders experienced the turnover of more than half their leadership team in the last year

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Specialized team coaches for your top teams

Choose our experienced team coaches to develop high-performing teams in your organization, virtually or in any region of the world. Our professional ICF-certified coaches build team effectiveness through transformational coaching approaches and contemporary team diagnostics.

Our world-class team coaches have worked with top teams within every industry. We focus on your team and organization’s goals, KPIs and ROI. Our coaching evaluation experts can help define clear criteria for success, collect and analyse data from multiple sources and report on the results.

When to use coaching for teams

Coaching for teams adds value across a wide range of situations, including:

  • Launching or restructuring leadership teams
  • Addressing misalignment or low trust
  • Enhancing team effectiveness and agility
  • Navigating cultural integration or global collaboration
  • Supporting change, growth or strategic transformation
  • Establishing new norms for hybrid or remote teamwork

Business outcomes

Our team coaching clients report transformational shifts in team performance, culture and outcomes:

  • Stronger trust and psychological safety
  • Greater alignment around purpose and strategy
  • Faster decision-making and better conflict resolution
  • Improved communication and collaboration
  • Retention of key talent and enhanced team engagement
  • Increased capacity for innovation and change
  • Measurable improvements in leadership effectiveness

Case Study: Team coaching transforms a European institution’s senior management team

The Challenge

A top-tier European Institution, responsible for driving innovation and economic impact across multiple countries, faced a critical leadership challenge. Its newly appointed President inherited a legacy leadership team navigating outdated systems, governance reform and internal cultural shifts.

To tackle these challenges, the Senior Management Team partnered with Performance Consultants to design a long-term coaching journey for the team.

A key requirement for the coaching was to integrate team development with the Board’s work agenda.

The Outcome

Facilitated off-site workshops laid the foundation for trust, alignment and behavioural change. The team engaged in values assessments, peer learning, executive coaching and guided reflection.

A shared team charter was created to establish principles for working well together – focusing on respect, open communication and a “can-do” mindset.

The coaching journey helped the team shift from fragmented leadership to collective effectiveness, enabling them to deliver on strategic priorities with clarity and cohesion.
 
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With Performance Consultants’ help, we turned into an effective team.
I would have found the job very difficult to handle without their support.

President of a European Institution

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What can we expect from leadership team coaching?

    Each leadership team coaching engagement is designed around your unique needs. We begin with a discovery phase to understand your team’s goals and challenges and team dynamics. From there, we co-create a structured coaching journey, usually over 6–9 months, involving:
    – Facilitated workshops (1–2 days each)
    – Live team observations and systemic feedback
    – Short virtual check-ins to sustain momentum
    – Custom tools and diagnostics to measure impact

    Our work focuses on the team as a whole – not just individuals – creating the conditions for meaningful dialogue, lasting behavioural shifts and measurable team performance improvements. Feedback is delivered in a coaching style for shared learning and improvement.

  • How does team coaching differ from group coaching?

    Team coaching is for intact teams who work together towards shared objectives and a common purpose. A team is its own entity with its own identity, performing tasks that are interconnected and too time-consuming or complex for an individual or a group of individuals working in parallel. For this reason, coaching for leadership teams focuses on team performance as a system, leveraging the collective wisdom of the team to enable the next level of team performance and deliver the deep systemic shifts needed at the leadership level.

    Group coaching is coaching for individuals within a group context, across different departments or roles facing similar challenges. Group coaching focuses on personal development within a shared learning environment.

Beyond team coaching

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Assess your team impact

It’s important to know the collective strengths of the leaders in your team. Our Impact 360 assessment tool is the definitive method to uncover team strengths and areas for development.
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