• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• contents
• About the authors
• Introduction
  • The growth of the team coaching industry
  • The changing face of leadership development
  • The changing team landscape
  • What can high-performing teams achieve that individuals can’t?
  • High performance is by design
  • How to use this book
• PART 1: Team coaching essentials
  • Chapter 1: What is team coaching?
    • Defining team coaching
    • Longer term
    • A partnership
    • Team led
    • Sustainable high performance
    • Focuses on the dynamics in the team
    • The links to individual coaching
    • Flexing between coaching and other modalities
    • Role of team coach
    • What is team coaching? A summary
  • Chapter 2: Why team coaching?
    • What is high performance?
    • The need for high-performing teams
    • Organizational benefits
    • Individual benefits
    • The benefits to the leader
    • High performance is by design
    • Why be a team coach?
    • Why team coaching? A summary
  • Chapter 3: Core competencies of a team coach
    • Demonstrates ethical practice
    • Embodies a coaching mindset
    • Establishes and maintains agreements
    • Cultivates trust and safety
    • Maintains presence
    • Listens actively
    • Evokes awareness
    • Facilitates client growth
    • Core competencies of a team coach – A summary
  • Chapter 4: Developing your team coaching practice
    • Education and training
    • Continued coach education
    • Being part of a team coaching community
    • Developing your team coach toolkit
    • Supervision
    • Broadening your understanding of business models, systems and practices
    • Turn up the heat and variety
    • Developing your team coaching practice – A summary
• PART 2: EDGE Team Coaching with Advantycs®
  • Chapter 5: Using Advantycs® for successful EDGE Team Coaching
    • About Advantycs®
    • Diagnosing the team
    • Accessing the diagnostic tool
    • How the Edge Dynamics interact with each other
    • Case study team
    • Using Advantycs® for successful team coaching – A summary
  • Chapter 6: The Seven Principles of EDGE Team Coaching
    • 1. Develop the dynamics within the team
    • 2. Create an inclusion culture
    • 3. Increase Interdependence
    • 4. Build a sense of untapped potential
    • 5. Celebrate similarities and differences
    • 6. Take a systemic view of the team
    • 7. Sustain high performance
    • Coaching for high performance – A summary
  • Chapter 7: The EDGE Team Coaching Process
    • Have a process for team coaching
    • The EDGE Team Coaching Process – A summary
  • Chapter 8: Creating a team Reason
    • What is Reason?
    • Why is Reason important?
    • The impact of Reason on team performance
    • The four levels of Reason
    • Alignment of the four levels
    • Creating a team Reason
    • How Reason changes when the team changes
    • The links to other Edge Dynamics
    • The case study team
    • Creating a team Reason – A summary
  • Chapter 9: Delivering team Results
    • What do we mean by Results?
    • Clarity: The biggest gift a team can have
    • Alignment of Results
    • Collaboration
    • Over-collaboration
    • The ‘Big Whats’
    • Links to other Edge Dynamics
    • The case study team
    • Delivering team Results – A summary
  • Chapter 10: Building team Routines
    • Defining Routines
    • Diagnosing the team’s Routines
    • Creating a team rhythm
    • Meetings
    • Decision-making: Who makes decisions in the team?
    • Communication
    • Processes
    • Escalations
    • Planning and adjusting work
    • Engaging externally (e.g. customers, suppliers, partners)
    • Accountability
    • The links to the other Edge Dynamics
    • The case study team
    • Building team Routines – A summary
  • Chapter 11: Deepening team Relationships
    • Definition of Relationships
    • The benefits of great Relationships
    • The complexity of Relationships
    • Where do you start with Relationships?
    • Foundation skills
    • Stretch skills
    • Going the extra mile
    • Avoid forced fun
    • The links to other Edge Dynamics
    • The case study team
    • Deepening team relationships – A summary
  • Chapter 12: Sustaining team Resilience
    • What is team Resilience?
    • What do high-performing, Resilient teams do?
    • The impact of Resilience on sustaining high performance
    • Reduce potential points of failure to increase Resilience
    • Create a culture of learning to increase Resilience
    • Anticipating changes in the team increases Resilience
    • The lowest scoring Edge Dynamic
    • The links to other Edge Dynamics
    • The case study team
    • Sustaining team Resilience – A summary
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index

The ultimate guide to coaching a team to high performance.

Unlock the full potential of your coaching practice and take your clients' teams to new heights with this comprehensive guide to team coaching, packed with expert insights and practical strategies for achieving success.

As a coach, you know that teams are critical for success in today's ever-changing organizational landscape. Aligned with the ICF core team coaching competencies, this practical guide by Alison Grieve and Jenni Miller offers a comprehensive approach to team coaching based on their Advantycs® methodology. Packed with expert insights and actionable strategies, it will equip coaches with the tools and knowledge they need to help their clients achieve higher levels of performance, engagement, and well-being.

Alison Grieve and Jenni Miller work with teams in large multi-national organizations to help transform company culture and create differentiated performance. Based on extensive, original research with over 200 teams, they have developed a blueprint for success that captures how the greatest teams think, act and communicate to overcome mediocrity and drive outstanding organizational performance. They frequently write and run authoritative webinars on teams based on their research and experience and won the 2022 & 2023 Stevie International Business Award and the Women in Business Company of the Year Award 2022.