TEAM COACHING
STUDIO BLOG
Welcome to the Team Coaching Studio blog, your space for insight, reflection and growth in the evolving world of transformational team coaching.
Here, you'll find practical wisdom from our experienced faculty and community of practitioners who are shaping the future of this discipline. We explore topics ranging from presence and emergence to team dynamics, practical help on accreditation and training pathways, and the personal journey of becoming a masterful team coach.
Inner development for outer transformation in team coaching
Organisational culture does not shift because we run workshops. It does not shift because we redesign values posters or introduce a new behavioural framework. Culture shifts when the thinking, meaning-making and behaviour of those at the top shift.
Are you carrying too much? A guide to travelling light in team coaching
Team coaching can feel heavy. Heavy with complexity, conflict, and emotion. Heavy with the weight of all we think we need to carry into the room to make this engagement run smoothly.
Why Every Team Coach Needs a Community (And How to Find Yours): 8 Essential Insights
You walk into the room. The team is already there, waiting. Eyes turn to you. They've cleared their calendars, made space in their budgets, and now they're looking to you to solve their problem. Yet you know you know you aren’t there to hand over neatly packaged, one size fits all answers. That’s not how this beautifully unpredictable work happens.
How to Develop Your Team Coaching Philosophy: 8 Steps from Doing to Being
Your principles create ripples that become waves. But those waves can only form when you're clear about your philosophy: what you believe, your stance and who you are as coach.
A Practical Guide to Emergent Team Coaching
There is a fundamental paradox in team coaching: the very uncertainty that creates anxiety is the precondition for transformational work.
The Team Coach's Guide to Starting Strong: Building Structure That Enables Emergence
You walk into the room where the team you are embarking on a coaching journey sit. You ask this seemingly innocent question. You are met with blank stares and a room full of people wondering why you don't know what they need to work on.
Beyond Hearing: how active listening creates high-performing teams and lasting client relationships
The business case for learning how to really listen to teams and how listening keeps clients coming back year after year.
Getting Professional Accreditation as a Team Coach
Team Coaching: The Key to Unlocking Your Business's Potential
Team Coaching and The Importance of Leadership
Team leadership is, quite simply, a critical success factor in team effectiveness.
5 Key Dynamics to Team Psychological Safety
The Road to Successful Team Coaching
Teams are where it is at
The Role of Systems Thinking in Coaching 'Liquid Teams'
Can looking at systems in different ways help inform the way coaches work with more fluid teams?
Talking Teams: Signature presence: a way of working of the world
As featured in the May edition of Coaching at Work we explore the fourth of our Core Competencies.
Talking Teams: Setting the Foundation
As featured in the November edition of Coaching at Work we explore the first of the TCS Core Competencies
Team Detox!
An article by TCS Principal Georgina Woudstra
What is team coaching?
An explosion of interest around team coaching has led to a wide range of definitions, tools and approaches. Whilst it is great to see the field of team coaching expand, there is growing confusion around what team coaching is. Georgina attempts to throw light on the subject with an interpretation and meaning that puts the importance of connectiveness at the heart of the definition.