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Team coaching

Team effectiveness
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Understanding what makes teams work, and what can get in their way, has been at the heart of the Tavistock’s work with groups and organisations for decades. This gives Tavistock Consulting a distinctive depth of expertise in team coaching, working with leadership teams and teams across organisations to strengthen how they work together and perform.

What is team coaching?

Team coaching works with a team as a whole, helping its members understand how relationships, roles and ways of working shape their ability to achieve their shared purpose. It pays attention not only to what a team does, but to what happens between people, including dynamics or tensions that may be difficult to recognise from within. Our systems psychodynamic approach considers how these dynamics and the wider organisation can support or constrain collaboration and performance.

For coaching specifically focused on executive teams and boards, see our Executive Team Coaching service.

Our approach

We help teams understand how they work together, including the patterns and dynamics that support their effectiveness and those that may be getting in the way. This can include how people take up their roles, how authority is exercised, how difference and disagreement are managed, and how pressures from elsewhere in the organisation are experienced within the team.

Creating a supportive and reflective space to explore these dynamics can improve communication, empathy and trust, strengthen collaboration and help teams perform more effectively together.

Who this is for

Our team coaching work is for:

How it works

Team coaching begins with understanding the team, its purpose and what it wants to achieve from the work. Together, we agree a focus and an approach that reflects the team’s particular circumstances.

Sessions work with the real challenges facing the team, creating space to reflect on how it is working and explore patterns as they emerge. Coaching can take place in person or online and usually involves a series of sessions over time, enabling the team to apply its learning to day-to-day work.

The work may consist entirely of team coaching or combine team and individual coaching where this would be helpful. This allows us to work both with individual experience and with the dynamics of the team as a whole.

Who you would work with

Our team coaching is led by experienced organisational consultants who bring a systems psychodynamic perspective to team dynamics and effectiveness.

Impact


This can be a particularly potent intervention for a team wanting to work at pace and depth and has repeatedly brought about the following impact in the teams we have worked with:

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Whatever challenge, opportunity or development you’re facing, an enquiry call offers a chance to pause, reflect, and think it through together, without any obligation or pressure.

When you contact us, a member of our team will either address your enquiry directly (if you’re just looking for information) or let you know that a consultant will be in touch to arrange an initial online conversation.

If your enquiry is more urgent, please feel free to contact us on 020 8938 2475.

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