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BEYOND THE BLUEPRINT
A GUIDE TO EMERGENT TEAM COACHING
A free ebook for team practitioners ready to create lasting team transformation
Perhaps you've been coaching teams for years using well-established models and frameworks. You get results such as better communication, clearer goals, improved meetings. Yet you can't shake the feeling that you're only scratching the surface of true team transformation.
Or perhaps you're newer to team coaching and already feeling constrained by prescriptive approaches. The diagnostic tools and structured interventions feel increasingly at odds with the messy, complex reality of transforming teams.
Beyond the Blueprint offers a different approach to team transformation. One that trusts teams' wisdom rather than imposing external solutions. One that works with complexity rather than trying to simplify it away. One that creates the conditions for genuine, lasting change.
WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
This isn't a how-to manual with step-by-step instructions. Emergent team coaching is about facilitating deep team transformation. It's a way of being with teams, a stance you develop and a set of capabilities you cultivate over time.
Inside this guide, you'll find:
A clear articulation of what emergent team coaching is and why it creates sustainable transformation
Principles to guide your practice in transforming teams across different contexts
Practical approaches to contracting, creating the container and tracking what emerges
An honest exploration of what this work demands of you as a practitioner
Real examples that show emergent coaching and team transformation in action
Recognition of the challenges you're likely to face when facilitating deep team change
WHAT’S INSIDE
Chapter 1: The Case for Emergence
Why traditional approaches often miss what teams truly need for transformation
Chapter 2: Structure, Emergence and the Coach's Dilemma
Navigating the tension between planning and presence in team coaching
Chapter 3: When Emergence is the Right Choice
Understanding when and how to work emergently with transforming teams
Chapter 4: Foundational Principles
The core beliefs that underpin emergent practice and lasting team transformation
Chapter 5: Essential Practices
Key capabilities to develop as an emergent team coach
Chapter 6: What This Demands of You
The inner work required to coach teams through transformation
Chapter 7: Common Traps and Sticking Points
Recognising challenges in team transformation and how to navigate them
Chapter 8: Seeing It in Action
Real examples of emergent team coaching creating transformation
Conclusion: The Invitation
Your next steps on this journey of transforming teams
WHO SHOUD READ THIS?
This book is for executive coaches, team coaches, OD professionals, facilitators, consultants and leaders who are looking for an approach to team transformation that feels truer to what teams actually need.
Whether you're experienced or just starting out, if you're ready to move beyond prescriptive frameworks and create genuine team transformation through what emerges in the moment, this guide is for you.
Written by Team Coaching Studio founders Georgina Woudstra and Allard de Jong, this book distils what we've learned from more than forty years of combined experience in team coaching and transforming teams, and from training hundreds of team coaches.
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