Seminars & team coaching
Team coaching programme
Where a seminar settles a question in two days, team coaching changes how a group works over four to six months. Several sessions with real work between them, aimed at habits rather than at a single decision.
What you will be able to do
- Give the team a shared objective
- Give the work meaning and motivate the team
- Strengthen team cohesion
Programme
Analysing your needs and objectives
- A meeting to identify expectations and objectives, including where possible the consultant proposed for the engagement
- It produces a tailored programme mixing group activities, themed workshops, tools and method where useful, and defined deliverables
The instruments we work with
- Knowing yourself to communicate better — instruments for understanding and adapting to others (Enneagram, MBTI, Process Communication, depending on the consultant's certification)
- Live 360° — the group reflecting each member's strengths and areas to work on, and the actions that follow
- Speed-meeting — a review of the quality of interpersonal relationships across the group
- Building managerial charters, and the rules and values the team will hold each other to
- A SWOT of how a department actually functions, with individual and collective action plans
- Defining a strategic vision for a department, a team or a company
What this coaching brings
Team coaching is collective support with tailored content, adapted to the expectations and objective of the sponsor, aimed at developing the team’s cohesion, its performance, and its ability to communicate and work together through collective intelligence. ABP Consulting offers collective coaching, seminars and team-building sessions grounded in a real vision of the team and of integration, while encouraging and respecting everyone’s values.
A range of tailored themes, depending on your collective objectives:
- Building cohesion
- Working better together, knowing each other better and communicating better
- Developing your collective performance, your capacity to innovate and to carry a project through
- Defining and rolling out a vision for a department or a company
Depending on the team’s objective and size, a format is co-constructed with the sponsor. The first aim is to optimise and develop the team’s potential, while giving it time to step back in a spirit of conviviality and togetherness.
Questions about this course
How is this different from a cohesion seminar?
A seminar is two days on a question the team needs to settle, and it can be enough. Team coaching runs across months and targets how the group operates. If the team knows exactly what it needs to resolve, start with the seminar — it is shorter and cheaper, and we will say so.
What does the sponsor receive?
The objectives agreed at the outset, progress against them, and an honest closing review. Not individual assessments of team members. We agree that boundary in writing before starting, because a coach who reports on individuals is no longer trusted by the team and stops being useful to anyone.
What if the team leader is the problem?
It is a common finding in the diagnosis phase, and it is raised with the leader directly and privately before anything is said to the team. Sometimes the engagement continues with individual coaching alongside. Sometimes the honest conclusion is that team coaching cannot fix it, and we say that rather than continue billing.
How do you measure whether it worked?
Against the two or three objectives agreed at the start, which are set concretely enough to be assessed — decisions reached without escalation, meetings that end with owners, attrition in the team. We do not claim precise attribution, and we would distrust a supplier who did.