The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership: Recent Episodes

Carissa Bub: Leadership Coach, Team Coach, C-Suite Advisor

Join Season 3 Show Hosts Melissa Sayer, Adam Hsu, Lisa Walker, Carissa Bub, & Krister Lowe and explore "Regenerating Organizations Through Team Coaching." In Season 3 we will be featuring 1-to-1 interviews with leading team coaching experts as well as live stream panel discussions. Tune in to the Team Coaching Zone on YouTube, on your favorite podcast platform as well as at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com/. Discover practical tools and resources to support your internal or external team coaching practice. The podcast is for new and experienced coaches, human resources and learning and development professionals, as well as leaders and managers of teams. Enter The Team Coaching Zone today!

Taking the Team Coaching Zone Podcast stage this week is James Edmondson! Jame is an Organisational Effectiveness Consultant, a Systemic Team Coach, a Student of Agile and a Veteran. James presently is an Enterprise Agile Coach at Scrum Inc.

In this episode host Dr. Krister Lowe explores James' journey as a commanding officer in the Royal Australian Navy, to his transition to a number of private sector roles, to his discovery and evolution into team coaching and agile, and to his exciting work scaling teams and teams-of-teams. You can learn more about James at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-edmondson/

This is a fascinating episode that listeners will surely not want to miss! Listen to this and past episodes of the TCZ Podcast via your your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more) or at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com.

And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Taking the TCZ stage this week is Dr. Simon Western. Simon founded and leads the Eco-Leadership Institute. A leading academic and practitioner in coaching and leadership, he is the author of Leadership a Critical Text (3rd ed.Sage 2019), Coaching and Mentoring a critical text (Sage 2012), and co-author of Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis (Sage 2018).

Dr. Western has led Coaching and Organizational Consulting Masters courses at leading universities, including tenure as Director of Coaching at Lancaster University Management School, Masters in Organizational Consultancy (psychoanalytic approaches) at Tavistock Clinic, and past presidency of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). Alongside his leadership of E.L.I, Simon is the CEO of Analytic-Network Coaching ltd. He trains and leads a network of advanced coaches internationally, with the aim of building an ecosystem of coaches who support the leadership that is required in today’s network and global society. Simon works in diverse organizations in order to learn from difference, and cross-fertilize and share this knowledge. He brings an unusual depth and breadth of experience to the world of leadership, coaching and organizational change.

During the podcast hosts Carissa Bub and Krister Lowe explore Simon's background and his exciting work in "Re-enchanting Organisations."

Listen to this and past episodes of the TCZ Podcast via your your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more) or at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player.

And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Taking the TCZ stage this week is Abigayle Wall. Abby is a Vice President for Organization & Transformation Coaching at JPMorgan Chase, is an Accredited Kanban Trainer for Kanban University, an ORSC Trained Coach for Teams, Products and Organizations, and a Founding Member of the Cialdini Institute. She is also the Creator of Flow Funxion.

During the podcast we explore Abby's rich background as an organization transformation leader and coach. We will also tap into her experiences using Kanban, ORSC, Cialdini's work on influence and more!

The session was live-streamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterward on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player.

And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Taking the TCZ stage this week to share insights from their team coaching experiences are Anders Troedsson and Peter Englén. The session was live-streamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterward on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Anders "Andy" Troedsson is a Team Coach at BestTeam in Stockholm, Sweden and a Founding Board Member of Sveriges Teamcoacher. He is an organizational coach with more than 25 years of hands-on experience as a leader in corporate settings. He has led and supported individual contributors, managers executives, management teams and organizations in their development. Andy is an independently certified Team and Individual coach by ICF and a certified team coach by both Team Coaching International and 6Team Conditions. Today his work is focused on key teams, teams of teams and their leaders.

Peter Englén is Chairman at Sweden's Teamcoacher and a Team Coach at BestTeam based out of Stockholm, Sweden. He is a team coach with a focus on team and leadership development. Since 1998, Peter has worked in the areas of leadership and organizational development, strategic consulting and coaching. Anders and Peter are the authors of the book "Att leda team: 60 tips som ökar din systemintelligens." Translation: "Leading Teams: 60 Tips to Increase Your Systems Intelligence."

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Taking the TCZ stage this week to share insights from their team coaching experiences are Hemant Taneja, Madalina Camarasu and Inbavanan Ganapathy from Tattva Consulting. The session was live-streamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterward on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Tattva Consulting is a boutique consulting firm based in New Delhi, India working with the purpose of providing meaningful and sustainable transformation for our clients. Their work flows in the areas of Organization Change and Culture, Talent Management, Team Coaching and Leadership Effectiveness. We leverage research-based methodologies matched to the client’s context to deliver value.

Hemant Taneja is Founder and Practitioner at Tattva and is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience. He has held leadership roles in functions ranging from Business Operations to Human Resources across various global organizations.

Madalina Camarasu is a Program Manager in Global Leadership Development at UIPath. She is passionate about making learning engaging and meaningful by bringing together people, technologies and learning solutions. In her role at UiPath, Mădălina is responsible for designing and bringing to life innovative programs, experiences and tools that foster an environment of continuous learning and growth among the organization's leaders.

Inbavanan Ganapathy has more than 27 years of Corporate and 11+ years of Consulting / Coaching experience in all facets of People Practice from Organization Development and Effectiveness, Learning & Development, Personnel Management to Industrial Relations domains. During his Corporate career, apart from Heading the People Function, his experiences have included Setting up manufacturing operations, Heading Industrial Relations, Leading People Integration post acquisition, Leading Organization wide Change initiative, Authoring blueprint for People Capability Maturity Model, and Global Head for Learning & Development function.

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Taking the TCZ stage this week are the hosts of the show Melissa Sayer and Krister Lowe who will be sharing insights and lessons learned from their team coaching experiences as well as reflections on the Season 3 podcast as well as developments in the profession. The session will be livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterwards on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Melissa Sayer is a Co-Host of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast and is Co-founder and Managing Partner at 6 Team Conditions. She is a thought leader & podcaster in the area of top team coaching, team learning & organizational learning and also an award-winning researcher & educator, adjunct Professor at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.

Dr. Krister Lowe is Founder and Co-Host of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast and is also Co-founder and Chief of Innovation at 6 Team Conditions. Krister is a thought leader in the team coaching profession and is the Co-Editor of The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching, the first handbook of its kind. The Team Coaching Zone was started in 2015 and has reached listeners in over 135 countries.

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

In this episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast, Dr. Krister Lowe does an interview collaboration with Yadira Caro--the Host of the Hardcore Podcast.

Yadira Caro is a Scrum Master for US Central Command and the Host of the Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast (https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com). She helps tech teams deliver faster results and collaborate through the use of Agile practices. She has over a decade of experience with software developers and engineers in the Defense industry creating solutions to optimize how work is done and how knowledge is shared.

Dr. Krister Lowe is an Organizational Psychologist, Team Coach and Creator & Host of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast (https://www.TeamCoachingZone.Com). Dr. Lowe has over 20 years of experience in the Learning & Development profession and has been focused on coaching teams and supporting the development of the Team Coaching industry since 2015.

In this episode Yadira and Krister share stories of how they got into coaching teams and share experiences and practices from the field.

Join hosts Dr. Krister Lowe and Melissa Sayer Friday for this week's Team Coaching Zone Learning Conversation! Joining the TCZ stage to discuss their experiences at the Team Coaching Studio are Allard de Jong, Emily Jones and Bob Shearer. Topics to be explored in this learning conversation include: 1) How the Team Coaching Studio is more than just a team coach training school but is a platform for elevating team coaches and the profession; 2) Insights from the Team Coaching Studio's in- research on trends in the space; and 3) more! The session was livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterwards on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Allard de Jong is an ICF Certified Coach of Teams and their Leaders, a Certified Mentor Coach & Coach Supervisor and a Director & International Faculty at Team Coaching Studio.

Emily Jones is Owner, Team Coach and Executive Coach at Turnstone Coaching Solutions and Community Lead and Faculty Member at Team Coaching Studio.

Bob Shearer is Managing Director at Hvarth Consulting Limited and a Faculty Member at Team Coaching Studio.

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Joining the TCZ stage to discuss their experiences collaborating in an informal team coaching community practice are Emer O'Donnell, Mary Curtis, Jennifer Campion, Mark Cahalane and Dr. Colm Murphy. The session was livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Emer O'Donnell is Director at Select Strategies, is a Leadership & Team Coach and the Co-Author of The Growth Roadmap. Mary Curtis is an Executive, Team and Communications Coach with STCoaching. Jennifer Campion is a Leadership Coach and Facilitator at Campion Coaching & Consulting. Mark Cahalane is a Stakeholder Engagement Specialist, Team Coach, Advisor to Entrepreneurs, CEOs and Leadership Teams at Martello Leadership. And Dr. Colm Murphy is Partner & Executive Coach for Leaders and Teams at Praesta Ireland, Accredited Master Practitioner, Doctoral researcher & faculty member at Smurfit Executive Development, the Global Team Coaching Institute and the IMI.

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Joining the TCZ stage to discuss working with startup teams is a team of team coaches: Dr. David Tate, Jana Basili, Mark Emdin, Carolyn Sklar, Andrew Powell and Dr. Krister Lowe. The session was livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and is available for replay afterwards on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

In this episode this eclectic team of professionals shares their experiences and lessons learned working with founders and startup teams. They also share their experience working on developing an assessment focusing on startup teams: "Team Diagnostic for Startups (TDFS)."

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Hope you enjoy the episode!

Joining the TCZ stage this week is Lighthouse Organizational Development. The session was livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Lighthouse Organizational Development, based in Vienna Austria, is a firm whose mission is "to bring the transformative power of learning to our clients so that we exceed our clients' expectations and positively impact the workplace experience." Their areas of expertise span Team Effectiveness, E-Learning, Agile, Leadership Development and Change.

Kevin Daly (Managing Partner), Elisabeth Overbeeke (Senior Consultant & Trainer), Dr. Tim Bosworth (Senior Consultant, Trainer & Coach), and Liz Lux (Senior Consultant, Coach & Facilitator) will be sharing insights from their experiences in team effectiveness as well as in other areas of expertise. Learn more about Lighthouse Organizational Development at: https://www.lighthouse-od.at/

Watch previous Team Coaching Learning Conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com or on your favorite podcast player. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Joining the TCZ stage for this week's Team Coaching Learning Conversation along with host Melissa Sayer is Dr. Colm Murphy.

Dr. Colm Murphy is a Partner & Executive Coach for Leaders and Teams at Praesta Ireland, an Accredited Master Practitioner, a Doctoral researcher & faculty member at Smurfit Executive Development, and the Global Team Coaching Institute and the IMI. In this conversation Dr. Murphy shares ideas from the 4 parts of his team coaching experience: 1. the Practitioner; 2. the Researcher; 3. the Educator. 4. the Accreditor. This is a conversation that you will surely not want to miss!

Watch previous conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.... And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

143 - Neal Henderson: The Journey to Becoming a Team Coach

In this 1-1 interview show host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews Neal Henderson from Front Row Performance Coaching. Neal is a Team Development Professional and an Executive Leadership Coach. https://www.linkedin.com/in/njhenderson/

In this interview Neal shares his 5 year+ journey coaching leaders, teams, and increasingly complex multi-team interventions in a US Navy shipyard involving submarines and aircraft carriers. Neal shares the developmental arc of becoming a team coach and many valuable lessons he learned along the way.

This is an episode that you will not want to miss!

Joining the TCZ stage is the leadership team from the company ID-Pal! ID-Pal (https://www.id-pal.com/) is a technology firm that provides businesses with a real-time identity verification solution that is out-of-the-box. Their mission is "Providing everyone with a simple, secure and convenient way to verify their identities."

The leadership team of ID-Pal joins hosts Melissa Sayer and Krister Lowe to share more about the exciting as well as challenging aspects of being on the top team of a dynamic growing business.

Watch previous learning conversations at https://teamcoachingzone.com. And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Joining the TCZ stage are Gabe Abella and Stephen McDonnell. The Team Coaching Learning Conversations are livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube every Friday at 9:30 New York | 14:30 London | 21:30 Beijing and are made available for replay afterwards on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Gabe Abella is a Vice President of Global Payments at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He enables organizational agility at enterprise scale through leading, coaching, and teaching. Gabe is an Accredited Kanban Trainer for Kanban University, is a faculty member at 6 Team Conditions, and is an Okaloa Flowlab Facilitator. He holds additional certifications including: International Systemic Team Coaching Certificate, Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner.

Stephen McDonnell is Founder and Global Managing Director at Live Unbound. He is a global leader in human and team performance. As an elite athlete and former lead engineer with vast experience leading teams, Stephen has an intimate knowledge of high performance in highly competitive contexts. The driving purpose of his work is to enable today’s leaders, teams and organisations to accelerate their development, transformation, agility and performance in an increasingly VUCA world. Stephen enjoys building a competitive advantage and making a positive difference globally at organisations like Eli Lilly, PUNCH Engineers, Everseen AI, Cranstoun, VHI Healthcare and more. Stephen and his team know what it takes to transform performance in a fun and fully human way. Using neuroscience, leading-industry research, vast and diverse experience, and elite sports principles to catalyse leaders and teams into the optimal psychological state known as flow.

Watch previous podcasts at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.... And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

140: Team Coaching Learning Conversation: The Many Gifts of Supervision with Dorothy Atcheson

Joining the TCZ stage with host Carissa Bub to explore “The Many Gifts of Coaching Supervision” is Dorothy Atcheson from Lucid Coaching and Consulting, and the Coaching Supervision Academy. The session will be livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterwards on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)! Dorothy is an accredited Coaching Supervisor specially trained in systems - working with senior leadership, teams and groups of all kinds - and takes a ‘systems inspired’ approach to all of her coaching, facilitation and supervision. She is on the learning faculty for CSA the Coaching Supervision Academy, a trusted global brand in supervision training. Dorothy has built a thriving Coach Supervisor practice since 2013 working with leadership and team coaches and for coaching supervisors. Dorothy is also a seasoned senior leadership and team coach with more than 25 years experience in media and communications for both the private and public sector. Her main focus is on helping people with good communication in the workplace, and co-creating space for generative dialogue. Her client list includes Google, Salesforce, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, BBC Media Action, Oxfam, Comic Relief, the Home Office, HMRC and the NHS. She also works with leaders of philanthropic foundations, community interest companies and small business entrepreneurs.

Watch previous conversations at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable.com/ And for ongoing dialogue about team coaching join us in the Team Coaching Learning Community group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8227188/

Episode #139: Team Coaching Learning Conversation: Christina Lee and Yvette Hall

Join us Friday March 31 at 9:30 New York / 14:30 London / 21:30 Beijing for this week's Team Coaching Zone Learning Conversation! Joining the TCZ stage to explore "Influencing Business Leaders and Empowering Women" are Christina Lee and Yvette Hall from Paradigm 360 Consulting, LLC. The session will be livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available for replay afterwards on your favorite podcast player (e.g. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more)!

Christina Lee is the Chief Executive Officer for Paradigm 360º Coach Training and Consulting, which focuses on transformational leadership development and customized service. She has a wealth of experience in non-profit management, fundraising and development. She’s also skilled in building teams through behavioral management assessment-based trainings, developing over 2000 leaders within a ten-year span. Since 2004 she has successfully trained small companies, schools districts, and non-profit organizations. She holds a certification as an Executive Leadership Coach from Dream Releaser Coaching, A Coach Trainer Certification from Life Forming Leadership Coaching, MBTI Certification and DiSC. Christina is a native of California, has a wonderful husband and six children. She’s a national speaker, teacher, executive coach, and serves as Chaplain to NFL families through the Professional Football Players Mothers Association. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, spending time with family and vacationing on California beaches.

Yvette Hall, PhD is Co-Founder of Paradigm 360º Coaching & Consulting, LLC, a firm specializing in leadership development, training, change management, team & executive coaching and coach training. Her specialties include: Team & leadership development, strategic visioning, training, executive coaching, change management, competitive and strategic analysis. Yvette is a Strategic Marketing and Business Leader with extensive corporate experience in Consumer Packaged Goods Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Brand Management, Category Management, Trade & Customer Marketing, and Sales Planning.

Professor Peter Hawkins joins the stage with Dr. Krister Lowe to explore "The Next Challenge for Team Coaching: Enabling Organizational Transformation" during this week's Team Coaching Learning Conversation! Peter Hawkins, PhD, is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Chairman of Renewal Associates and founder and emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group and Chairman of Metaco South Africa. He is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in leadership and leadership development and an international thought leader in executive teams, and systemic team coaching. Peter is also a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100, and is the author of many books on coaching and leadership, including his most recent, Systemic Coaching, delivering value beyond the individual. He is the Honorary President of the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS) and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Windsor Leadership Trust. He teaches and consults in over 50 countries and is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences. Peter is one of the creators of the Team Coaching Practitioner Certification for the Global Team Coaching Institute. Join us every Friday at 9:30am EST | 13:30 GMT | 9:30pm CST for the Team Coaching Learning Conversation series! The sessions are livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available afterwards for listening on all major podcast platforms (i.e. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more). Hope to see you there!

Episode #137: Team Coaching Learning Conversation: The Role of Presence in Team Coaching

Join us Friday March 17, 2023 at 9:30am EST | 13:30 GMT | 9:30pm CST for this week's Team Coaching Learning Conversation! The session will be livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube and made available afterwards for listening on all major podcast platforms (i.e. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio and more). Sebastian Fox, Dr. Dorothy Siminovich and Michelle Chambers join the stage with Dr. Krister Lowe and Melissa Sayer for the learning conversation.

Sebastian Fox is a team coach working with executive and leadership teams to help them learn and change in service of becoming more effective. He is Head of Research at the Team Coaching Studio and is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University in the UK.

Dorothy E. Siminovitch, Ph.D., MCC is a global executive coach, a speaker, an author, and a Director of coach training, presence, awareness & somatic coaching. She is Founder & Director of Training Gestalt Coaching Program-Istanbul & Toronto.

Michelle Chambers, M.Ed, CSODP,CHRL,CTDP, CTPC is a Global Executive Team & Leadership Coach; Culture & Strategy Advisor - Organization Development Consultant - Author - Speaker, ICF Prism Award Chief People. She is Culture & Strategy Officer at Chambers & Associates & Teams Matter and a Global Certified Team Performance Coach & Senior Faculty Member Team for Coaching International.

The learning conversation will explore the role of presence and presencing in the context of team coaching. The implications for team coaching practice and the development of team coaches will be examined. Hope to see you there!

136: Team Coaching Learning Conversation - Internal Team Coaching

This week Christine Shrader from RedHat, JD Lanigan from Genentech and Mary McCarthy from Microsoft will be joining the Team Coaching Zone podcast stage to share insights, lessons learned, anecdotes and more about internal team coaching.

The weekly Team Coaching Learning Conversation Series are live streamed every Friday at 9:30am EST on LinkedIn and YouTube and also made available as a replay on all your favorite podcast platforms and at https://team-coaching-zone.teachable..... Hope you can join us!

Episode #135: Team Coaching Learning Conversation - Dr. David Tate: March 3, 2023

Dr. David Tate joins Krister Lowe and Melissa Sayer for this week's Team Coaching Learning Conversation! Dr. Tate is the author of the recently published book Conscious Accountability, is CEO at Conscious Growth Partners, is on the Yale University School of Management Faculty, and is an Executive and Team Coach, a Consulting Psychologist and more!

Note: The livestreams can be watched on both YouTube and LinkedIn. You can also tune in and listen to the audio versions afterwards on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Podcasts and more!

Episode #134: Team Coaching Learning Conversation: February 24, 2023

In this kickoff episode of the weekly Team Coaching Learning Conversation livestream Dr. Krister Lowe and Melissa Sayer provide listeners with an introduction to weekly series, delve into some current trends in team coaching and explore some themes for future learning conversations.

Note: The livestreams can be watched on both YouTube and LinkedIn. You can also tune in and listen to the audio versions afterwards on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Podcasts and more!

How do we balance the art of team coaching with the science? What does the journey to becoming a great team coach look like? Is supervision and being actively involved in a team coaching community of practice necessary?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and special guest Georgina Woudstra from Team Coaching Studio https://teamcoachingstudio.com/ for episode #132 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these and other important questions. Listen at www.Team-Coaching-Zone.Teachable.com or on popular Podcast Platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Podcasts and more!

How can the agile movement help with regenerating organizations in our current context? What are the opportunities and challenges? What should team coaches know about the current state of agile to be effective? Join hosts Carissa Bub, Lisa Walker, Adam Hsu, Melissa Sayer, and special guests Abigayle Wall and Gabe Abella for the next Team Coaching Zone livestream to explore these important questions.

Listen at www.Team-Coaching-Zone.Teachable.com or on popular Podcast Platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Podcasts and more!

Regenerating Organizations through Team Coaching Team coaching has never been more critical than it is right now, as organizations of all sizes across industries realign their team values, purpose, and direction.

Join us for this first episode of Season 3 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast as we discuss trends in team coaching designed to teams create the space for effective teaming in this ever-changing, complex, and unprecedented times of chaos.

This season's team of hosts include Adam Hsu, Carissa Bub, Lisa Walker, Melissa Sayer and Krister Lowe. Special guests will also be featured during both livestreams and pre-recorded shows.

Listen at www.Team-Coaching-Zone.Teachable.com

TCZ Podcast #130: Michelle Chambers: What Creates Resilience in Teams?

Michelle Chambers and I met through Team Coaching International several years ago as members of Faculty. She's one of the most joyful people I know and a really savvy organisational development and team coaching expert. We caught up just before the end of 2020 to talk through her take on resilience and how she works systemically with teams to build it.

Always grateful to hear your feedback, meanwhile please enjoy this episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast.

Find Michelle at

michelle@chambersandassociates.ca
www.chambersandassociates.ca
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/michellechambers

TCZ Podcast #129: Alison Hodge: Mapping the Territory of Team Coaching: Part 2

In this second part of my conversation with Dr Alison Hodge, we dive further into the territory of team coaching. I hope you find it as thrilling, fun and eye-opening as I did. Some of the points we explore are how to use or apply the map to
- identify the dynamic forces at play on the team and organisation
- invite nature into the conversation
- navigate your terrain as a team coach during a client engagement
- share the map with your client to define where to start an engagement
- develop yourself and your clients' capacity to be with the emergent
- allow ourselves to be with the magic of life itself
- create dialogue and a unified field for the team coaching profession

I would love your feedback and any other thoughts that come to mind.

TCZ Podcast Episode #128: Alison Hodge: Journey into Team Coaching Supervision

I'm delighted to introduce Dr Alison Hodge to you listeners in this first of two episodes on team coaching supervision. Alison has been supervising Executive Coaches and OD/HR consultants for more than 21 years in Australia, South East Asia, the United States, Europe and the UK, both individually and in groups. She is a senior faculty member with the Coaching Supervision Academy responsible for curriculum and design, and published author on supervising team coaches. More recently Alison has created a map that captures the complexity of the multi facets of team coaching. She is also an accredited Executive Coach and brings a wealth of experience as a practitioner in her own right.

In this conversation we explore
- how to characterise team coaching supervision
- what the process involves
- tips for team coaches considering becoming a supervisor
- the distinction between team and group dynamics
- mapping the territory of team coaching

In episode #129 we will journey deeper into the territory of team coaching.

Find more on Dr Alison Hodge and her work:

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-hodge/
Twitter: alisonhodgecom
Website: https://alisonhodge.com/mapping-the-complex-territory-of-team-coaching-and-supervision/
PDF of the Mapping Team Coaching Paper:
https://alisonhodge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mapping-team-coaching-august-20.pdf

Published chapters

“Guidelines for team coaching supervision” (Hodge & Clutterbuck) In Birch, Jo & Welch, Peter (Eds) (2019) Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes Routledge, Abingdon pp 161-175
“Supervising team coaches: working with complexity at a distance” (Hodge & Clutterbuck) In Clutterbuck, Gannon, Hayes, Iordanou, Lowe and Mackie (Eds) (2019) The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching Routledge Abingdon pp 331-342

TCZ Episode #127 | Linda Berlot | Coaching Across Cultures in the C-Suite

I am delighted to share this latest Episode #127 of the Team Coaching Zone in which I interview Linda Berlot, CEO of Berlot Group in Dubai. In this episode we explore what is it like coaching C-Suite leaders as a team? What golden nuggets would you want to have as a team coach walking into this arena for the first time? Especially coaching a multicultural leadership team?

Linda and her colleagues at Berlot Group provide professional and expert team coaching solutions to C-Suite leadership teams across the Middle East, and Internationally. Linda is also a CRRGlobal partner - and owner of the ACTP coach training school licensed to deliver ICF accredited ORSC Coaching core curriculum programs in the region.

Other aspects of team coaching we explore are:
- Coaching a leadership team as a system
- Helping leaders become more Relationship Systems intelligent
- Linda's litmus test for coaching with a worldview

You can reach Linda Berlot here:
www.berlotgroup.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-berlot-pcc-orscc-1aaa387/

TCZ Podcast #126: Joel DiGirolamo: The Story Behind The ICF Team Coaching Competencies

Delighted to be joined in this episode by Joel DiGirolamo, Director of Coaching Science for the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Joel leads the organization’s efforts to develop, curate and disseminate information around the science of coaching, and most recently the publication of the Team Coaching Competencies.

Joel shares what inspired this groundbreaking research and gives us insight into the extensive and rigorous process the ICF conducted to realise a framework with twenty-nine team coaching competencies. In this episode Joel shares the definition of team coaching versus other forms of team development. We also talk about why this work matters now, accreditation and next steps.

For listeners who enjoy personal stories, Joel and I also share our passion for ashtanga yoga and the power it has had in advancing our practice as team coaches.

More on Joel DiGirolamo
Joel has more than 30 years of staff and management experience in Fortune 500 companies and is the author of two books, Leading Team Alpha and Yoga in No Time at All. He holds a master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Kansas State University, an MBA from Xavier University, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He is an Associate Editor for Consulting Psychology Journal. Contact Joel:

joel.digirolamo@coachfederation.org
linkedin.com/in/joel-digirolamo-b44ab05

ICF Team Coaching Competencies

https://coachingfederation.org/team-coaching-competencies

TCZ Podcast #125: Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour: Building Top Performing Teams

In Episode #125 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast I'm joined by a dynamic duo team - Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour, co-authors of Building Top Performing Teams A practical guide to team coaching to improve collaboration and drive organizational success (Kogan Page).

Lucy is Director of Performance Edge and a board member of the UK International Coaching Federation. During her 30 year corporate career Lucy worked at board level and as an HR Director in retail and airlines and led award-winning teams. Paul combines a global client base with practitioner research in human collaboration, team coaching and conflict resolution. His interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. Both Lucy and Paul are lead tutors on Team Coaching at Henley Business School.

In this episode we focus on ways of being as a Team Coach including:
- a framework to explore your Being as a Team Coach
- the importance of contracting as a means to unleashing creativity
- tools to bring out the collective wisdom of teams
- how to get beyond your own story and self-limiting mindset
- discovering your signature as a Team Coach

Find out more on Lucy and Paul here:
Lucy linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson
Paul linkedin.com/in/pauljbarbour

Find Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success (Kogan Page, January 2021). on Amazon, Google Books and Apple Books.

TCZ Podcast #124: Andres Roberts: What Can Nature Teach Us About Coaching Teams?

I’m very excited to be joined in this episode on The Team Coaching Zone by Andres Roberts, the founder of the Bio-Leadership Project and co-founder of Way of Nature. Andres' TEDx talk How Would Nature Change Leadership? – quickly made its way onto the global TED platform within weeks of giving the talk. Andres is on a mission to reinvent leadership to be more like nature. He believes we are at ‘sliding doors’ moment in time, in which humanity has the challenge and the opportunity to rewrite the rules of collective progress in history. He argues rather than battling with the old operating systems, making nature our guide might be the most important innovation of our times. Andres left the world of big organisations early on in his career. He has worked and learnt with elders and teachers from around the world, as well as first class partners in organisational learning and development. Andres works with institutions such as Patagonia, the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Amani Institute.

In episode #124 I begin by asking Andres to share his earliest memories of being in nature. We also venture into:

What inspired Andres to make leadership and nature his life's work
The Bio-Leadership project as a global movement for change
Three threads woven into the Bio-Leadership philosophy
How some companies are applying the model to reinvent their future
How it could inform Team Coaches grappling with a transformation agenda

Learn more about Andres:

https://bio-leadership.org/
https://youtu.be/PIX-4DJLwRw

For show notes and more information on team coaching go to:

https://www.teamcoachingzone.com

TCZ Episode #123: Aileen Miziolek: Insights and Inspiration for Coaching Family Business Teams

According to the World Economic Forum 70% of the world’s economy is made up of family businesses and 50% of the global workforce work in those businesses. Aside from the business case, I am passionate about coaching family businesses and have been looking around for a few buddies to talk things through.

I’m delighted therefore to be joined in Episode #123 of The Team Coaching Zone podcast by a real expert in the field - @Aileen Miziolek, a fellow ORSC Coach (Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching) and a consultant at The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. who joins me from her home in Toronto, Canada.

In this episode Aileen and I swap stories and talk about:

the appeal of working with families in business
the unique challenges of coaching family teams
Aileen's concept of the Learning Family
working with Founders and intergenerational dynamics
the potency of a Relationship Systems Coaching approach
insights for Team Coaches curious to explore working in this arena

Our conversation begins with Aileen's personal story, which is touching and sets the tone of why this work is so important. Hopefully more Team Coaches will consider jumping into the fray.

You can find more on Aileen Miziolek:

https://www.thefbcg.com/miziolek/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aileen-miziolek-b7654220/

TCZ Podcast #122: Jennifer Garvey Berger: Cultivating Leadership & Unlocking Mindtraps in Teams

Given the astonishing experience of 2020 – which has confirmed that we have entered a moment of radical change and alteration - how can we as team coaches find deep and intentional ways to grow ourselves and our clients in order to better thrive in complex times?

In Episode #122, I’m really excited to pose this question and more to my guest Jennifer Garvey Berger – Jennifer’s ‘Growth Edge Coaching’ approach, which she describes in her book, Changing on the Job, has been developed over the last decade and underpins her work developing leaders and coaching senior teams in organisations such as Google, KPMG, Microsoft, and the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Jennifer also coaches transformational and development coaching approaches in her Growth Edge Coaching certification series, and is a highly popular speaker at leadership and coaching conferences around the world. She is the co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, the author of three acclaimed books and holds a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University.

During our conversation we touch on:

an overview of the adult development theory that underpins Jennifer's work
the uniqueness of a transformational and development coaching approach to working with teams
stories of working with teams using this approach
the challenge of helping to accelerate human growth in leadership teams
meeting our own shadow and doing the work ourselves
the sense of urgency for this work
Jennifer's vision for the coaching and team coaching industry
bringing spirit back into the workplace

Find out more about Jennifer:

cultivatingleadership.com (Company Website)
kiwibergers.blogspot.com (Blog)
growthedgecoaching.com (Company Website)
twitter jgberger
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-garvey-berger-7b4a264/

TCZ Episode #121: Alison Cameron: What Does It Really Take To Transform Teams?

In this episode Alison Cameron, an internationally acclaimed transformation strategist and I talk about what it takes to guide team leaders in enabling organisational evolution. I'm interested, how do we ourselves as team coaches, better understand what it takes to help our clients adapt their ways of working and worldview.

Alison's work has taken her from the boardrooms of large, multinational corporations working with leaders in business, politics and not-for-profit sectors, to leading social transformation initiatives around the world. She is the co-founder of Adaptive Cultures, a growing global community of leaders and culture practitioners working with many of the world’s most complex and influential organisations. Adaptive Cultures diagnostic instruments and methodologies have been endorsed and implemented by a number of teams going through significant transformations. We start our conversation talking about where she lives surrounded by mountains and a verdant tropical backdrop in Australia, and her own fascinating transformation journey which started in Alison's early teens and took her to be on stage with Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lamai and other respected world leaders. It's a moving story which she has never shared before and sets the tone for our conversation.

Here's what we talk about in addition to Alison's own story:

Awakening and being called to a higher purpose
Working with living systems as a leadership and team coach
The need to do the inner work as a practitioner
Developing adaptive capacity and agility in organisations
How to identify the different stages of cultural evolution
The critical importance of structure in nurturing potential
Tips for team coaches working inside organisations

You can find more on Alison and Adaptive Cultures here: *https://adaptivecultures.co

For show notes go to: http://teamcoachingzone.com/alisoncameron

Note: On the show notes page you can download the Stages of Cultural Evolution (see attached PDF) and the white paper on Adapting Organisations Through Leadership and Culture (see attached PDF)

TCZ Episode #120: Klaus Leopold: Reinventing Agile: Why High-Performing Teams Isn’t The Answer

Before, during and for sure post the immediate crisis of #Covid-19, organisations today are having to reinvent themselves faster than ever before. As a behaviour change expert working with senior teams, I tend to focus on the human system itself rather than operational systems and processes. Clearly both relationships and tasks need to be reimagined for companies to adapt and thrive.

Unpicking the spaghetti junction of a business’s operational system is not easily done, but Dr Klaus Leopold, CEO of Flight Levels Academy and Managing Partner of Leanability seems to have the knack for it. For those in the agile world, Klaus is a bit of a legend and it is his third book, Rethinking Agile that prompted me to invite him onto the Team Coaching Zone podcast to ask about how he goes about whole-systems change.

Here's some of what Klaus and I cover:

How he discovered and defines flight levels
Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility
How flight levels work in helping to re-imagine businesses
Why we don’t need high-performance teams
The dangers of focusing on teams as islands rather than agile interactions
The relationship between flight levels thinking and three horizons thinking
Klaus’ vision for a better world

For show notes and information on Klaus including his books, his blog and how to find him on Twitter and LinkedIn go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/klausleopold

TCZ Episode #119: Mike Robbins: We’re All In This Together: Coaching Teams With This in Mind

On today's show I talk to Mike Robbins, author of five books including his brand new title, We're All In This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust and Belonging. Mike's ideas are based on 20 years working as a highly sought-after speaker and consultant to clients such as, Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Genentech, eBay, Harvard University, and LinkedIn. We begin with Mike's own story as a professional sportsman turned business consultant in the San Francisco Bay area. We talk about the sense of urgency which compelled him to write the book, and then explore the four pillars that his research has led him to believe are essential for teams to thrive in today's world. These are:

Psychological safety, drawing on the work of Amy Edmondson and others, what it takes to create an environment safe for risk-taking, disagreement, failure, boldness and authenticity.
Inclusion and belonging, why teams need to engage in authentic conversations around this topic in an on-going and effective way, not only for companies to thrive but for societies to move in a positive direction on these fronts.
Embracing sweaty-palm conversations, however scary and difficult, conflict as an enabler for positive team relationships, overall performance and wellbeing.
Caring and challenging each other, the importance of maintaining a strong balance of nurturing and high expectations in the team.

Listen here on the Team Coaching Zone or any podcast platform to Episode #119 More about Mike:

Mike and his work have been featured in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review, as well as on NPR and ABC News.
He’s a regular contributor to Forbes, hosts his own podcast (called We’re All in This Together), and his books have been translated into 15 different languages.

TCZ Episode #118: Tatiana Fraser & Rachel Sinha: Making Systems Leadership Possible

My guests today are two formidable women and the co-founders of the System Sanctuary – an international peer learning and training platform for systems leadership. Tatiana Fraser has 20 years of experience leading and scaling systems innovations, creating strategic learning communities and movement building. She is also co-founder of Girls Action Foundation and co-author of Girl Positive (Random House 2016), in which she has worked to reframe the narrative around gender equality to advance social justice and the leadership of girls and women.

Rachel Sinha is a British award-winning social innovator, based in San Francisco, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of 50 Radicals “changing the face of the UK for the better”. Rachel was one of co-founders of The Finance Innovation Lab, designed to empower positive disruptors in the financial system. The Lab was named a semi-finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Award ‘Socially Responsible Designs Highest Award’ for its work bringing together people post financial crisis, to accelerate positive change in the financial system. Prior to that Rachel’s work on sustainability issues includes a number of ground-breaking roles including have sat on the European Commission Expert Panel on Social Business. She has co-authored a series of articles in Harvard Business Review and Fast Company and publications, and collaborating with Oxford Said Business School has led an enquiry into the language of systems change and launched the publication Keywords.

Together they run The Systems Sanctuary which has the tagline – a refuge for systems leaders

http://systemsanctuary.com

For Episode Show Notes & More Go To: https://teamcoachingzone.com/frasersinha

TCZ Episode #117: Dr. Paul White: How to Keep Teams Feeling Valued in a Remote Workplace

In an agile and less hierarchical world, teams are ever more reliant on motivating each other over and above relying on their team leader. Appreciation is one of the fastest ways to make someone feel valued but we don't all speak the same language. Especially at a time when most are working remotely and having to dig deep to build team resilience. My guest today really does have the data to help teams and organizations to get this right. Dr Paul White is a psychologist, leadership trainer and co-author of the Five Languages of Appreciation at Work based on the international best seller by his co-author Gary Chapman on The Five Love Languages. In this punchy 40 minute episode Paul and I explore

Why appreciation matters over and above employee recognition
How to recognise the 5 language of appreciation in yourself and others
The impact of appreciation on team effectiveness
What differences the research shows for remote teams
How does any of the 5 languages of appreciation change culture

And, Paul has generously offered our listeners a free pass for the Motivating By Appreciation Inventory for Remote teams. Email him on yesdrpaulwhite@gmail.com to receive your registration code.

Find more on Appreciation at Work here https://www.appreciationatwork.com

More on Paul White:

Dr. Paul White, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked with individuals, businesses and families in a variety of settings for over 20 years. He received his B.A. from Wheaton, his Masters from Arizona State, and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University. He consults with successful businesses and high net worth families, dealing with the relational issues intertwined with business and financial wealth. In addition to serving businesses, families and organizations across the U.S., Dr. White has also spoken and consulted in Europe, Central Asia, the Caribbean, and South America.

TCZ Podcast Episode #116: Kathryn McCusker: How To Stay Connected in The Face of Disruption

Have you had moments during lockdown of getting trapped in your head and wanting to rationalise what's going on rather than be in your heart? I certainly have. Yet to coach effectively and to be a transformational presence for others, we know we must stay connected to our feelings. Only when we have processed our feelings can we find our creative response. Creativity is what many of the organisational leaders I've been coaching over the past couple of weeks are looking for from themselves and their people as they move beyond a crisis response to reimagining the future of work.

My guest this week on The Team Coaching Zone podcast is not a coach. Kathryn McCusker is a kundalini yoga teacher, professional opera singer and author. I've been going to Kathryn's classes for awhile now and each time I leave the studio feeling deeply connected to myself and the world. In this episode Kathryn shares practical techniques which you can do working from your home office to access your personal creativity. We talk about the science behind Kundalini yoga and the impact different breathing techniques and mantra meditations have proven to have on enhancing brain functioning as well as managing our emotional state.

I hope you have fun with this one!

More on Kathryn:

www.kathrynmccuskerkundalini.com https://www.facebook.com/KathrynMcCuskerYoga/ https://www.instagram.com/kathryn_mccusker_yoga/ https://twitter.com/kmyogakundalini?lang=en-gb https://www.youtube.com/user/KMYOGA

TCZ Episode #115: Dr. Ruth Wageman: Fast Team Start-ups: Tips for Team Leaders and Developing Presence in Teams

I never cease to learn great tips on coaching teams from my colleague Dr Ruth Wageman, a leading scholar and passionate practitioner in the field of collaboration and systems change. In this punchy 30 minute episode we focus specifically on immediate support for team leaders and teams in business and local communities responding to Covid-19.

Specifically, as a coach or team leader how to do fast team start-ups?
How do you hold the space for a team to get present with one another?
How can you help teams become more emotionally resilient in these times?

For episode show notes and more go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/wageman115

Also listen to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music or on your favorite podcast player!

TCZ Episode #114: Marita Fridjhon: Tips for Living and Working in a Virtual World During a Crisis

We are in a huge moment of crisis and transition, this is a time to pull together. How do we learn to deal with the chaos of settling into a new reality that challenges how we work and live to the core?

My guest in this episode in this episode is Marita Fridjhon, a long-standing colleague, mentor and the co-owner and CEO of the ICF accredited coaching training school CRR Global. We begin our transatlantic conversation talking about what's going on in the streets were we live and commenting on a recent blog by Otto Scharmer on what the global Coronavirus pandemic is teaching us about being in relationship and working together to change the system. This episode is full of practical tips for organizational leaders, families and of course, coaches and change makers. Some of the topics Marita and I cover include

How CRR Global are working with their virtual global community to learn from and with each other
Tips to create the quality of listening and presence that sets those meetings up for success
How to become skillful working with systemic emergence by using Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI)
The challenges and opportunities leaders face moving from ego-->eco in order to leverage the collective wisdom of their organisation
The breakdown of silos as workers move to working from home and what it means for the future of work
Communication and collaboration, what's possible now

For Show Notes: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/maritafridjhon114

Available for free on iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, Google Play Music, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and more! Thanks for listening! Carissa Bub Show Host - Season 2

TCZ Podcast #113: Karen Downes: Creating the Foundation For Human Flourishing in The Workplace: A Case Study

What does it take for humans to flourish at work? Does our definition of resilience need redefining? What can you do to support a team in overwhelm and facing burnout?

Join me Carissa Bub and guest Karen Downes, Founder and Managing Director of The Flourish Initiative as we talk about her experience training 1600 business leaders of a leading global organisation. as part of her mission to shift the business paradigm of growth and performance into a new model of human flourishing for business prosperity. Karen and I discuss:

Her first career as a healer and building up a multi-dollar business in Australia
The call to focus on corporate organisations and her bias for community over team
Living in an age of exponential disruption and collapse
Her intensive learning journey in 2018 supporting a leading global brand to transform its culture
How human flourishing is a way to create psychological safety, connection and dignity
The difference between ‘old’ and ‘true’ resilience
Embodiment, somatic coaching and working with trauma
Advice for teams who are in overwhelm and facing burnout
Advice for team coaches who want to help clients build resilience that goes beyond ‘toughening it up’
Her related work and experiences developing feminine intelligence in leadership

You can reach Karen here:

http://www.theflourishinitiative.com

karen@theflourishinitiative.com

linkedin.com/in/karen-downes-9a33737

Episode #112: Marcy Connors: A Master Practitioner Shares Best Practices on Coaching Virtual Teams and Team of Teams

For businesses, big and small, one reality is an ever-growing workforce that is very mobile and could be based anywhere. Another reality is organizations becoming more team-based structures. This provides both opportunities and challenges to scaling leadership. Especially with different teams working in different time zones, with some team members working partial hours.

Virtual team coaching can help to effectively and quickly scale leadership in a geographically dispersed organization. For companies moving at pace, virtual team coaching can help leadership teams to map out where cross-collaboration needs to happen and create the virtual conditions for shared leadership to emerge and continuously improve.

If you are a business leader or team coach looking to expand your understanding of how to go about using virtual team coaching to scale shared leadership listen to my conversation with Mary Connors in this episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast.

Mary is an expert in large scale organizational change and virtual team leadership with a passion for bringing people together to achieve results globally. Listening to Mary talk through several case studies was eye-opening and fun. She brings 30 years executive coaching and consulting experience through her business Connors Davis & Company to the conversation, as well as 25 years’ experience in the design of Leadership and Change programs in the MBA departments of both US and international universities. There’s lots of good stuff here… top tips, stories, and as both Mary and I work with a number of family businesses, some good banter around trends we see happening with intergenerational teams. Enjoy!

You can find more on Mary Connors here www.connorsdavis.com

As organizations develop into more team-based structures what does effective communication and connectedness look like? How do you scale leadership in the face of increasing complexity and increasingly dispersed work communities?

Listen to this latest episode with Carissa Bub in conversation with David Clutterbuck--one of the early pioneers of developmental coaching and mentoring and co-founder of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. David is author of more than 70 books, including the first evidence-based titles on coaching culture and team coaching. He is visiting professor at three business schools. He leads a global network of specialist mentoring and coaching consultants, Coaching and Mentoring International.

In this episode David shares many 'How-To' moments on coaching different types of teams that I encounter on a regular basis and scenarios which I hope are relevant to you and many listeners of the Team Coaching Zone podcast.

Some of the highlights for me included

Discovering the PERIL model for coaching teams
How to set up a team of teams coaching assignment
His latest research on streams of connectedness and how to speed up interconnectedness without going through leadership to support system change
And what this means for the role of the team coach

You can reach David Clutterbuck

linkedin.com/in/prof-david-clutterbuck-84aa6b
davidclutterbuckpartnership.com (Personal Website)
coachingandmentoringinternational.org

Happy New Year! Wishing you a 2020 filled with health, prosperity, and peace.

Marita Fridjhon is an elder in the systemic coaching community. As co-owner and CEO of CRR Global, a leading school in Organisational & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), she trains and mentors an ever-growing community of practitioners in the field of Relationship Systems work. This is critical in today's shift in leadership to a more systems-inspired approach. I first met Marita in 2006 and since then along with her business partner Faith Fuller, she has become one of the most influential teachers in my own coaching journey.

Curious to expand your systemic coaching lens? Want to know how this way of seeing can make you an even more effective team coach? Not heard of Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching and want to know more?

You can reach Marita on https://www.crrglobal.com/marita-fridjhon.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/maritafridjhon/

More about Marita Fridjhon

Raised in South Africa during Apartheid, Marita dedicated her career to improving the human condition through a variety of practices. As President of CRR Global, Marita’s vision is to inspire and equip change agents to do effective work with relationship systems in all niche markets. She designs curriculum and operates training programs in Relationship Systems Work for coaches, executives and teams. She came to this work from an extensive background of Clinical Social Work, Community Development, Process Work, Family Systems Therapy, Business Consulting, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Marita has an international mentor coaching practice of individuals, partnerships and teams. Her primary focus in coaching is on systemic change, leveraging diversity, creative communication, deep democracy in conflict management and the development of Learning Organizations. Some of her clients include: Nova Nordisk, Touro University, Grand Canyon National Park Service, Coaches Training Institute, Horizon Services Inc., Central YMCA, Chevron, Institute for the Development of Human Psychology, Deep Ecology Education Program, Contra Costa County Health and Prevention, Hyatt Hotels, San Francisco School District, Boeing, IBM & Emirates Bank Dubai. She is the co-author of Creating Intelligent Teams: Leading with Relationship Systems Intelligence. Prior to co-founding CRRGlobal with Faith Fuller in 2002, Marita was Senior Faculty of The Coaches Training Institute.

Show Notes and More Information:

Go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com

A look back on the adventure-based learning journey at sea off the coast of Norway onboard the Wylde Swan, a tall ship built in 1920.

A deep dive with Dr Krister Lowe and Dr Ruth Wageman and myself (Show Host - Carissa Bub) into what's possible when you put a group of team coaches and team leaders in a VUCA environment to learn about how to create and coach brilliant collaboration and team of teams.

We cover:

The origins and vision behind the Nautilus Experience
Why learning to sail in team of teams is perfectly suited to help leaders and team coaches alike to adapt to doing business in a VUCA environment
What we gained personally and professionally from the voyage
What we learnt about how do create high performance collaboration and distributed leadership
The ideal participant for the Cuba April 2020 voyage and July in Norway.

For show notes and more information go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilusrediscovered

Team Coaching Zone Podcast | Season 2 with Carissa Bub | Episode #108

Jean Christophe Normand: Can Fasting Help Teams Achieve Breakthrough Results?

In this episode, I (Carissa Bub) talk to Jean Christophe Normand, a certified coach, coach supervisor, leadership development facilitator, and deacon in the Roman Catholic Church on how he works with groups to expand consciousness and help leaders face the risk and uncertainty of our times through fasting. Some of the questions I ask him are

How might this approach help leadership teams a crisis?
What brought him to work this way with groups?
How can fasting and meditation help foster collaboration and systems change?

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

More On Jean-Christophe Normand

Jean-Christophe is a certified coach and coach supervisor (PCC) at ICF since 2012 and a professional facilitator in leadership and management skills since 2009. His background is a 20-year finance and controlling experience in Cable Industry with a wide range of experiences with international executives. Jean-Christophe provides executive coaching and training in leadership and management skills with a measurable ROI based on the C-ROI™ methodology developed by Seattle-based Lisa Ann Edwards. He is a certified CTT (Cultural Transformation Tool) consultant trained on the tools provided by the Barrett Values centre which provides powerful metrics to support leaders in building values-driven organizations and values-driven societies. He teaches management and leadership skills at the Theologicum Department of the Institut Catholique de Paris since 2017 and is a permanent deacon for the French Roman Catholic Church since 2014. He is a Fellow of Oxford Leadership and lives in Nantes, France. His book on his fasting journey over 15 years comes out in Spring 2020.

You can learn more about Jean-Christophe

rhinc.wordpress.com (Blog) jcnormand@rhinc.fr
https://www.oxfordleadership.com/authors/jean-christophe-normand/

This week on the show, we are in Brazil where Felipe Paiva, organizational consultant and coach joins his client Henrique Gonzales Garcia Filho, Head of HR at Prumo global logistics group, and me (Carissa Bub) as we delve into a live case study on how to use a team of teams approach to transform a multi-business economic group responsible for the strategic development for the largest privately owned port in Brazil.

We discuss:

The business case that brought them together their partnership
The initial and ongoing design behind their work
What assessment tools they used
The successes and challenges on the way
How to help highly complex systems learn faster
What facilitation and coaching competencies are needed
What really makes the difference
Lessons learnt and tips to share

More on Felipe Paiva

Felipe is the founding partner of Artisan Consulting. In his own words... "My purpose is to enable more humane organizations, where people can fulfill their potential and create shared-value. I pursue this purpose combining the roles of consultant, facilitator and executive coach. Clients value my partnership and dedication to a deep, systemic, and consistent work. After having worked for 10 years in large companies, I spent the last 16 years as a consultant and coach, involved in strategic alignment, transformation programs, and executive development. I’m the founding partner of Artisan, a boutique organizational consulting company in Brazil. I studied business administration in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where I was also earned an MBA degree. Later, I enrolled at HEC-Paris to deepen my knowledge and perspective about change at systemic, organizational and individual levels, earning an MSc in consulting and coaching for change. I am also a graduate (PCC) of the Columbia Coaching Certification Program. I live my life with my wife and two kids in Rio de Janeiro. I love spending time with family and friends, doing outdoor activities and playing guitar. Music has been a constant life passion and I play monthly in night clubs & parties with my band, which keep me connected with art and people." If that is not enough, you can find everything you want to now about Felipe and Artisan consulting here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipe-paiva-0a3190/

More on Henrique Gonzalez and Prumo

Mechanical engineer, with a master’s degree in Sciences of Engineering in IME (Institute of Military Engineering), people management extension in INSEAD, leadership extension in Wharton and Finance administration extension in FGV. Henrique has more than 20 years of experience in HR, but have also worked in engineering, operations, logistics and financial planning for other 10 years. Developed most of his career at Shell, being HR leader for Brazil and Latin America. Delivered the Rio2016 Olympic and Paralympic games, as HR Director, recruiting, training and engaging a workforce of 7.000 paid and 60.000 volunteers, participating since the startup of the Organizing Committee, on a journey of 5 years. Since Oct/2017 is the HR Executive Director at PRUMO, a holding company that develops the largest private Port, Industry, Energy complex in Brazil, Porto do Açu.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrique-gonzalez-a7170b15/
https://www.prumologistica.com.br/en/

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/, on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

This week on the show, Nicholas Janni, transformational coach, leadership development specialist and founder of Core Presence joins me Carissa Bub as we talk how we tend to live in a world of absence, what happens when you combine being and doing, and how developing presence can transform teams and organisations.

Nicholas and I discuss:

His childhood discovery aged 16 that inspires his work
What led him to theatre as a spiritual practice
The work and his experience as a co-founder of Olivier Mythodrama
What he means by presence and how he defines leadership presence
What it takes to help leaders and teams shift their concept of reality
How he works with teams
His work at IMD in preparing leaders for the future
His vision for cultures of presence

More on Nicholas:

Over the last 15 years Nicholas has gained an international reputation for his transformational coaching and leadership development seminars for leaders and teams. The clients he has served include FedEx, Rolls Royce, Swiss Re, Centrica, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Amdocs, Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, eBay and Lafarge, as well as the UK Permanent Secretaries and several cabinet ministers. He bridges the worlds of creative, personal, spiritual and professional development in a uniquely powerful, relevant and accessible way. In his first career Nicholas was a theatre director. He taught acting at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and directed his own theatre company. He has spent 30 years researching the theory and the practice of ‘the zone’ of peak performance, and studying multiple mind/body disciplines. In 1998 he became a Visiting Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management, and in 2001 he left the theatre to co-found the arts-based leadership development consultancy Olivier Mythodrama. In 2013 he founded his own consultancy, CORE PRESENCE. He was an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford Said Business School 2010–15, and currently teaches regularly at the IMD Business School in Lausanne where he leads large international groups. He is based partly in Israel, where he works with numerous corporate clients, Israeli and Palestinian NGO’s and at Tel Aviv University Recanati Business School. You can find everything you want to now about Nicholas here: https://www.nicholasjanni.com

P.S Whenever you’re ready . . . here are 4 ways I and Team Coaching Zone can help inspire your imagination and impact:

1) Join the Community of Change Makers: For the past few years we’ve been developing a community of change makers. Entrepreneurs and coaches who want to impact people and the planet in new and innovative ways. We are a supportive group committed to deepening our missions and lifting each other up when things get tough. If you'd like to learn more, go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/community/

2) Join a Master-class or Webinar: If you're looking for more imagination, tools and courage to take your coaching practice to the next level we have a menu of learning bites to inform and entertain you. You can attend a masterclass or log in and join a growing number of our live webinar series we are launching around the world. Check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/team-coaching-master-classes for more information.

3) Nautilus Experience: Come on an Adventure of a Lifetime Every year, we take a group of coaches on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. I believe that adventuring gets us out of our comfort zone, stimulates us in new ways and helps us connect with the world around us. These trips are designed to disrupt your current reality, challenge your assumptions and reconnect you to your wider purpose. This year we were in Norway on the Nautilus Voyage learning to sail and experimenting with team of teams. Join us in 2020 in Cuba in April or in Arctic Norway in July for our next adventure! For more information go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilus

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

This week on the show, Cynthia Loy Darst, Master Coach, coach trainer, keynote speaker and author of Meet Your Inside Team, joins me Carissa Bub to talk about how to triumph over your hardest client yet, yourself (!), and how to help others to do the same.

In this episode, Cynthia and I cover a range of topics including:

Her early influences as an actor in New York in the 1980s
How she left acting to pursue a deeper fascination with people
Founding the faculty of two world-leading coaching schools
What she has learnt working as a team with her husband
Her experiences as a front of room leader for CTI and CRRGlobal
What led to her discovery of the Inside Team
The influence of other systems work methodologies on her thinking
How she works with her Inside Team
How she uses this approach to manage internal conflict
Why knowing your Inside Team can help you as a Coach
How to help your client Team work with their Inside Teams
The future Team Coaching competencies

More on Cynthia:

Cynthia is internationally known as a passionate pioneer in the world of coaching: one of the first to gain the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) by the International Coach Federation, one of the founding leaders for CRR Global (Centre For Right Relationship) and The Coaches Training Institute, and one of the founders of the ICF. Cynthia works with people from all walks of life: CEOs to chiropractors, singers to Silicon Valley pros, teams that produce documentaries to sales teams in the insurance industry. In 2004, after 10 years of growing coaches to the level of ‘competent,’ she started creating ongoing training for advanced coaches to support them in becoming coaching masters. The Inside Team courses, workshops, and retreats came out of that work. You can find everything you want to now about Cynthia here: https://teamdarst.com

P.S Whenever you’re ready here are 2 ways Team Coaching Zone can help inspire your imagination and impact:

Join a Master-class or Webinar: If you're looking for more imagination, tools and courage to take your coaching practice to the next level we have a menu of learning bites to inform and entertain you. You can attend a masterclass or log in and join a growing number of our live webinar series we are launching around the world. Check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com for more information. If you’re interested in a topic and can’t find it here, get in touch, carissa@teamcoachingzone.com

Come on an Adventure of a Lifetime:

Every year, we take a group of coaches on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. I believe that adventuring gets us out of our comfort zone, stimulates us in new ways and helps us connect with the world around us. These trips are designed to disrupt your current reality, challenge your assumptions and reconnect you to your wider purpose. This year we were in Norway on the Nautilus Voyage learning to sail and experimenting with team of teams. Join us in 2020 for our next adventures this April in Cuba and this coming July in Norway! Check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilus for more information and updates. Reach out to krister@teamcoachingzone.com

This week on the show, Melanie Seymour, former Head of Budapest for BlackRock now head of Global Client Services, joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about how she led the building of BlackRock’s newest organisation and centre for innovation, scaling from zero to 500 hires in less than two years. We spoke while Melanie was in Budapest, a place she has fallen in love with, a few months before she accepted her new role at Blackrock.

Melanie and I discuss:
• Her previous experience building and selling her first financial services business in the UK
• How she set out to create a team that thinks differently and is capable of innovation
• The challenges she faced in the set up and build out of the organisation
• How she set out to create a team and team of teams culture
• Making the new organisation an integral part of the global organisation
• Her passion for creating inclusive modern organisations
• Advice for team coaches working with scale ups and global organisations
• Beyond teams, the critical importance of creating community and belonging
• What else Melanie is up to and where you can get in touch

More about Melanie Seymour:

Melanie has over 30 years experience in Finance and Banking holding senior roles in Technology, Operations and Change Management as well as running her own business. She set up and ran a mortgage distribution business with one partner and over 8 years grew the business team of over 200 with 3 offices throughout the UK and a turnover in excess of £20 million.

In 2011 she joined the global investment manager BlackRock, and is today the Head of Global Client Services. For the two years prior Melanie was responsible for the set up, build out and future growth of BlackRock Budapest. Melanie is Co Chair of the EMEA chapter of BlackRock internal women’s committee ( WIN ) where she leads a programme of events to support women ( and men ) in their career journey through the firm. She is passionate about education and developing the next generation of leaders, mentoring a number of men and women both internally and externally.

She has been a Chair of Governors since 2005 and was a coach for the charity Teach First who provide a leadership route into teaching to encourage the most talented graduates to join the most challenging schools. In 2015 Melanie was recognised as one of Brummells Top 30 Inspiring Women in the City. She joined the Advisory Board of Women in Banking and Finance in 2017 after three years as Vice President. Melanie splits her time between Budapest and London with her husband and 2 sons.

P.S Whenever you’re ready . . . here are 4 ways I and Team Coaching Zone can help inspire your imagination and impact:

Join the Community of Change Makers
For the past few years we’ve been developing a community of change makers. Entrepreneurs and coaches who want to impact people and the planet in new and innovative ways. We are a supportive group committed to deepening our missions and lifting each other up when things get tough. If you'd like to learn more, go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/community

Join a Master-class or webinar
If you're looking for more imagination, tools and courage to take your coaching practice to the next level we have a menu of learning bites to inform and entertain you. You can attend a masterclass or log in and join a growing number of our live webinar series we are launching around the world. Check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/team-coaching-master-classes and https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/webinars for more information.

Come on an Adventure of a Lifetime
Every year, we take a group of coaches on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. I believe that adventuring gets us out of our comfort zone, stimulates us in new ways and helps us connect with the world around us. These trips are designed to disrupt your current reality, challenge your assumptions and reconnect you to your wider purpose.
This year we were in Norway on the Nautilus Voyage learning to sail and experimenting with team of teams. Join us in April 2020 in Cuba for our next adventure! Reach out to krister@teamcoachingzone.com for more information on this exciting program and check out https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/nautilus for updates.

Work with us
It's no secret that in age defined by the disruptive forces of digital transformation and climate change learning how to be human matters. We are keen to partner with businesses with the courage and curiosity to do things differently. Leaders and teams looking to upgrade their minds so that they can have a transformative impact on the larger system they are part of. Is that you? Just reach out to me Carissa Bub at carissa@teamcoachingzone.com with the word “Curious” in the subject line and tell us more about how to contact you.

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music Play, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

This week on the show, Matthias Scheffelmeier, partner at Ashoka Germany joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about the leadership team’s journey on becoming a self-managing organisation, the power of working with a leadership team coach, and his passion for Change Makers Exchange, a growing movement of young social entrepreneurs. Matthias and I discuss:

How Matthias at a young age was focused on corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship
His experiences working at MicroSoft and the need for me that took him to Askhoka
The work of Ashoka Germany and how it supports social entrepreneurs today
Outer transformation can only come about through inner transformation doing the inner work
What it took to transform the organisation and how coaching really helped
Lessons learnt in the transition from a more traditional partnership model to a self-managing organisation
Using the lessons learnt at Ashoka to build a global community of young social entrepreneurs
The huge importance of community in helping young social entrepreneur avoid burnout and stay sane
What else Matthias is up to and where you can get in touch

You can reach Matthias on:

ashoka.org (Company Website)

changemakerxchange.com (Company Website)

mscheffelmeier@hotmail.com

Twitter: mscheffelmeier

Episode #102: Andrew Taggart: The Art of Philosophizing and Teams

Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, on SoundCloud, Google Music Play, on Stitcher Radio, or on Spotify.

This week on the show, Andrew Taggart, Zen Buddhist, practical philosopher and Founder of Askole joins me Carissa Bub (Show Host) as we talk about the future of work, how the art of philosophising can help teams align their work with the pursuit of having a good life, and the differences and similarities between systemic coaching and philosophising. Andrew and I discuss:

What took him to becoming a practical philosopher
What attracted him to living a contemplative life
Why philosophical questions matter today
The types of organizations drawn to this work
His work with tech teams and entrepreneurs
How he goes about running a group session
What the art of philosophising and teams sounds like
How coaches working with groups might use this art
The future of work and how this type of inquiry helps define it

More on Andrew

Andrew Taggart is a Zen Buddhist and a practical philosopher. He asks and seeks to answer the most basic questions of human existence with others around the world. In 2009, he finished a Ph.D., left the academic life, and moved to New York City because he thought the most fundamental question of how to live needed to be brought back into our everyday lives. Each day he speaks via Skype or Zoom with business executives and tech entrepreneurs throughout the US, Canada, and Europe about the nature of a good life. He is also the founder of Askole [pronounced ah-SKO-lay] whose aim is to help technologists examine what, at bottom, they’re taking for granted. His ideas have been discussed in Quartz, The Guardian, Big Think, Wisconsin Public Radio, TEDx, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He and his wife Alexandra are currently exploring the American Southwest.

You can reach Andrew here:

andrewjtaggart.com
askole.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-taggart-17157a12/

Episode #101: A Personal Introduction to Season Two by Carissa Bub. Listen to this episode at Team Coaching Zone, on iTunes, on SoundCloud, Google Music Play, on Stitcher Radio, or on Spotify.

This week on the show you can listen to Carissa, as she introduces herself and the second season of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. She shares:

Her orientation to life
Her professional journey thus far
What attracted her to want to host the podcast
What types of organizations she work with
Her vision for this podcast
What she would like from you

More on Carissa:

For the past 18 years Carissa has run an international practice coaching senior leaders, C-Suite leadership teams and scale-ups to create value through the power of human connection. She works systemically with real-time business issues and relationship challenges from the boardroom to the factory floor and develops leaders so they expand consciousness, transforming themselves, their teams and organizations to be catalysts for good in the world. Core focus areas include leadership effectiveness, team effectiveness, leadership culture, and stakeholder communications and engagement. Representative clients include global corporates, family businesses, SMEs, international government agencies, NGOs and social enterprise. Carissa has been on faculty training coaches in Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching for CRRGlobal, Team Performance Coaching for Team Coaching International, and more recently the Team Coaching Zone. She is also on the Global Coaching faculty of BlackRock, and since 2002 has designed and delivered leadership development curriculum programs for several corporate academies through her own consultancy, Bubworks. Bubworks is a boutique leadership development agency specialising in communications and leadership presence which operates as a global hub for seasoned coaches and facilitators. Prior to 2002, Carissa held roles as a news and current affairs television and radio journalist with the BBC and Channel Television, presenting and reporting live from the field and studio on programs such as The World Tonight, Channel Report and World Business Report. Carissa is also accredited as a Co-Active Professional Coach, Master Practitioner in NLP, Performance Coach and has qualifications in Systemic Team Coaching, Oshry’s Power & Systems Organisational Workshop, and numerous leadership and team diagnostic assessments. Her academic qualifications include a Masters in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from UCL, BSc Urban Estate Management from University of Westminster, and a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from University of the Arts London.

You can reach Carissa here:

linkedin.com/in/carissabub
carissa@teamcoachingzone.com
carissa@carissabub.com
www.carissabub.com

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this special review and celebration of the first 100 episodes of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast as well as his farewell as the host of the show.

In this episode Krister:

Shares high level reflections on hosting the podcast since its inception on January 1, 2015
Revisits the main purposes of the show as envisaged in Episode #001 and conducts an informal After Action Review
Shares some highlights from key episodes as well as essential lessons learned
Explores future trends in the team coaching field
Discusses the future of The Team Coaching Zone
Invites future show host Carissa Bub onto the podcast to share her vision of how she will lead the Team Coaching Zone Podcast in its next evolution
Shares parting thoughts and a heartfelt farewell

For show notes and more information on team coaching as well as links to all 100 episodes of the show go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/

What are the forces, trends and movements impact the field of team development and team coaching? How can we as team coaches and field of team coaching itself stay fit for purpose? How can we collaborate across our diverse approaches to address the fundamental challenges of our time?

Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone podcast to explore these and other compelling questions. Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and a panel of distinguished guests--Dr. Peter Hawkins, Dr. Ruth Wageman & Gabe Abella--for a dynamic round table discussion.

Themes explored in this episode include:

Areas of commonality between Peter, Ruth and Gabe's approaches to working with teams
The work of today and tomorrow as the focal point of team coaching
Creating the conditions for great collaborations
Collaborative intelligence - WeQ
Working across levels of system
Sustainable work practices in teams: expanding our view of team effectiveness
Renewal in teams
Movements, forces and trends impacting teams and team coaching
And more!

This is an episode that team coaches will surely not want to miss! Listen today and let Peter, Ruth & Gabe help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! For show notes and more information go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com

What are the challenges and opportunities coaching purpose-driven teams vs. profit-driven teams? How do we develop team leaders and teams working in hierarchical organizational settings? How do we balance the structural, relational and emergent needs and dynamics in teams?

Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these compelling questions with special guest Jason Ighani. Jason Ighani is an accomplished team development specialist who brings over 15 years of (global experience) to KITE. He has worked extensively within the United Nations system in the areas of leadership development and performance management; specializing in assessing, launching and coaching leadership teams in both emergency and development contexts. Jason’s clients include a wide range of agencies and NGOs including UNICEF, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNHCR and the UN Secretariat. Jason is also the founder of The Humanitarian Coaching Network, an organization that enlists coaches worldwide to help humanitarian and development organizations support the engagement and wellbeing of their staff and accelerate organizational change. Jason often works with an organization's most senior leadership, and has a strong reputation for combining empathy with a candid, supportive, direct approach to helping teams become more responsive, aware and agile.

Some themes explored in this episode include:

The journey to becoming a team coach
Balancing coaching the structural conditions of teams along with the relational and emergent aspects
The special role of team leaders in team coaching as well as the limits of their role
Coaching purpose-driven teams in the international humanitarian sector
Clarity of purpose and accountability in teams
Assessing team leader and team readiness for team coaching
The frontier being more in the “art of team coaching” vs. the “science of team coaching”
Continuing one’s evolution as a team coach
And more!

This is an episode full of value bombs that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! Start listening today and let Jason Ighani help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! For show notes and more information on team coaching go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com

Is our whole body actually a distributed brain? Can coaching with the body in mind lead to breakthroughs in behavior change and business results? How does embodiment coaching work at the team level?

Tune into this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other interesting questions with special guest Amanda Blake--the Founder of Embright.org and the Author of Your Body is Your Brain. Amanda Blake has devoted her life to the spread of one simple message: when you learn how to access the intelligence hidden in sensation, you open the door to more meaning, greater courage, deeper connection, and more powerful leadership than you ever thought possible. She is a Founder, an Author, a Research Fellow, a Master Somatic Leadership Coach, a Doctoral Candidate at Case Western Reserve University, and more.

Some themes explored in this episode include:

Amanda’s journey from athlete to coach to master somatic coach / author / trainer and more
The body as a distributed brain
The body as our social and emotional sense organ
Internal and external organs of perception
The neurobiological aspects of behavior and learning
Implications of embodiment approaches to coaching, leadership development and team effectiveness
Stories of application
Advice on how to get started exploring embodiment in your personal and professional life
Learning resources
And more!

This episode is guaranteed to leave you with a deeper understanding of yourself, your body, your mind and more! Tune in today and let Amanda Blake help you take your individual and team coaching practice to the next level. This is an episode that you surely will not want to miss!

What is business agility and what does this mean for team coaches? How can team coaches incorporate agile thinking and practices into their work? Why is a holistic view that incorporates flow, learning and collaboration critical for fostering sustainable change?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and this week's special guest Patrick Steyaert to explore this and other compelling topics on this week's installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Patrick Steyaert is the Founder and Creator of Okaloa Flowlab. (www.okaloa.com). Patrick teaches and coaches business agility by making use of simulations that stimulate agile thinking. He and his partner, Arlene Vercammen, have succeeded in creating a worldwide network of trainers and coaches that use Okaloa Flowlab in their day-to-day teaching and coaching. With his work in upstream, customer and discovery Kanban, he helps organizations to look at the end-to-end flow from suspected to satisfied need. He is a recipient of the 2015 Brickell Key award for outstanding contribution to the Kanban community.

Themes explored in this podcast:

Patrick's journey from doctoral training in object oriented coding to working as an agile coach in startups and companies, to becoming and entrepreneur and Founding Okaloa
Defining business agility
Being vs. Doing agile
The 3 essential ingredients of Flow, Learning & Collaboration
Okaloa Flowlab simulations
How to make change viral in organizations
Challenges coaching business agility in organizations
How team coaches can incorporate agile thinking and practices into their work
And more

This episode is essential listening for all team coaches looking to incorporate new mindsets, tools and practices into their work! Get in the Zone today and let Patrick Steyaert and Okaloa Flowlab help you take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How can team coaches increase their adaptability and versatility? What are the essential roles of an effective team coach? What bodies of knowledge about teams are critical for coaching teams for success?

Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews team coaching thought leader, educator and practitioner Dr. Laura Hauser. Dr. Hauser is the Founder of www.Leadership-Strategies.com and President of the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching. Laura wears multiple hats as masterful coach, consultant, mentor, author, educator, social scientist, conference speaker and business owner. She is the author of the seminal team coaching article based on her PhD dissertation Shape-Shifting: A Behavioral Team Coaching Model for Coach Education, Research and Practice in the 2014 Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, 5, 48-71. Themes explored on the podcast include:

Laura's journey to team coaching following an 18 year corporate career and founding Leadership Strategies International in 1993
Laura's seminal doctoral dissertation on team coaching in organizations
The Shape-Shifting team coaching model: 4 essential and dynamic roles: Advisor, Educator, Catalyzer, Assimilator
4 lenses for understanding teams: group dynamics, task coordination, team development, systemic context
Laura's upcoming June/July 2018 Gestalt Review article on The Team Coaching Operating System
Stories about coaching teams using the Shape-Shifting model Inspiration and advice for making the leap into coaching teams
And more!

This episode provides a wonderful opportunity to learn from one of the team coaching field's pioneering thought leaders who bridges the worlds of theory, research and practice. Tune in today and let Dr. Laura Hauser help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

What role can technology play in helping teams form, develop and grow? Will coach bots and artificial intelligence replace the need for human-based team coaching?

Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling questions with Tom Marsden, CEO of Saberr—a people analytics company that leverages technology to improve collaboration and help people create happy, high performing teams. In this episode Tom shares his journey from an early career in private equity to management consulting and then to discovering a passion for teams and technology as the CEO of Saberr. Themes explored in the podcast include:

•Origin story of Saberr

•The role of values in predicting team success

•Team composition and formation

•Saberr’s 3 core offerings: Base, CoachBot and Coaching

•How to integrate both technology as well as human-based coaching to foster self-coaching teams

•How to generate buy-in for using technology and coaching in teams

•Stories and lessons learned using Saberr’s approach in a range of companies

•How the future will continue to integrate technological as well as human-based approaches to fostering more engaged and successful teams

•How artificial intelligence and coachbots will increase the need for human-based team coaching rather than reducing it

•And more!

This episode is a must listen for all team coaches who are interested in how to incorporate technology into their practices and who are wary of being potentially outsourced by that very technology itself. Tom’s vision of the future of team coaching is inspiring and a blue ocean for those willing to dive in! Tune in and listen to this episode today and get ready to take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How can integrating embodiment approaches supercharge your leadership and team coaching practice? Is there any science behind somatic practices? Is embodiment the missing key to moving from transactional to transformational leadership and teams?

Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling topics with featured guest Dr. Carmela Bennett—an executive leadership coach and consultant and leadership faculty member at Columbia University.

In this episode Dr. Bennett shares her journey from an early childhood epiphany while watching the Nutcracker, to her sojourn into various forms of dance, to becoming a behavioral health therapist, to becoming an Aikido practitioner, to pursuing a doctorate in body-based leadership development and coaching, and to becoming a thought leader, teacher and practitioner in embodiment coaching and consulting. Specific themes explored in the podcast include:

How awareness is helpful but often insufficient to manifest change
Integrating “being and doing”
Positioning somatic and embodiment approaches in the marketplace
Ways the body responds to situations
The science behind somatic approaches
Mindfulness and partnership practices
Incorporating the “neck down” in leadership development in addition to the “head”
Stories and tips for how to apply embodiment practices in one-to-one and team coaching
Resources for getting started in incorporating embodiment into your coaching practice
And more!

Tune in today to this episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast and let Dr. Carmela Bennett help you move your coaching from the transactional to the transformational! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

What is learning agility and how can it be measured? What role does learning agility play in helping us adapt more effectively in an increasingly VUCA world? Is learning agility something that can be systematically developed within individuals, teams and organizations?

Tune in to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast with show host Dr. Krister Lowe and special guest David Hoff--the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Leadership Development at EASI•Consult.

In this episode, David introduces listeners to the concept of Learning Agility and why this critical capability is essential for leaders, teams and organizations. Themes covered in the show include:

Defining and measuring learning agility
David’s journey to working with Professor Warner Burke on bringing the Burke Learning Agility Inventory to the market
4 years of research underlying the instrument
An overview of David and Warner’s new book: Learning Agility: The Key to Leadership Potential
The 9 dimensions of learning agility
A case example using the Burke Learning Agility Inventory with a leader in healthcare
Areas where the Burke Learning Agility Inventory is being applied in organizations
Ongoing areas of research on Learning Agility
Resources to Learn More about Learning Agility and Burke Learning Agility Inventory

As we start to get into 2018, learning agility couldn’t be a more important topic for us as team coaches. It’s implications strike at the heart of enabling individual, team and organizational success. Tune in to the Team Coaching Zone today and let David Hoff start taking your learning agility to the next level!

Where should teams begin to start building momentum and a thriving culture? Can meetings really be disrupted to become spaces of genuine productivity and value creation? How can teams create a culture of shared ownership for meeting success?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guests Mamie Kanfer Stewart and Tai Tsao to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast! Mamie Kanfer Stewart is CEO and Founder of Meeteor, a collaboration company that helps organizations builds strong, healthy cultures in which people thrive. Tai Tsao is Change Management and Customer Success Lead at Meeteor.

Some themes explored on the podcast include:

How teams can build momentum by disrupting their meetings culture
Mamie and Tai’s new book Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging and Enjoyable Meetings
The origins of the company and its name Meeteor: “Meetings with Impact”
Insights into pitching team coaching to clients
Meeteor’s 8 dimension team effectiveness model and tool: Balance, Communication, Change Agility, Common Vision and Direction, Accountability, Shared Support, Meaningful Engagement, and Trust
Meeteor’s approach to working with teams: assessment; 2 week sprints including training, coaching and action modules for 2 to 4 months; sustaining new habits and change
Meeteor’s approach to meetings: tips and techniques for before, during and after team meetings
Desired outcomes, time management, agendas, notes, using tools and technologies and more to increase meeting effectiveness
Research showing that 30% of meeting time is wasted due to inefficiencies
A case example of how Meeteor helped a stone masonry company transform its team and organizational culture and how that impacted customers

All team members, team leaders and team coaches will find this episode essential listening for transforming team meetings and more. Join the movement for creating better meetings! Tune in today and let Mamie and Tai take your team coaching practice to the next level. For episode show notes and more go to: https://www.TeamCoachingZone.com/meeteor.

Learn more about Meeteor:

Website: www.meeteor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/meeteorHQ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meeteorHQ/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meeteor-software
Link to article on Thriving Teams Model: Take Your Team from Good to Great with These 8 Elements of a Thriving Team (http://blog.meeteor.com/blog/thriving-team/)
Mamie and Tai’s book available on Amazon
For people interested in bulk orders discounts are available for 11+ books on the Meeteor website. Visit http://www.meeteor.com/store/momentum.

If you're using twitter to push content you can mention Mamie and Tai @mamieks and @taitsao. Their respective websites are http://www.mamieks.com and http://www.taitsao.com

Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging and Enjoyable Meetings

Can games help accelerate forming, learning and performance in teams? Is there more to playing games than just fun and entertainment? How can team coaches, facilitators and trainers incorporate games into their team interventions?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guests Bradley Albright (Managing Partner and Founder of Escape Entertainment and Vitality Teaming) and Sarah Raccuglia (Learning and Development Professional with Vitality Teaming) to explore these and other interesting topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast!

Some themes explored in the Zone this week include:

Brad’s journey from officer in the US Army, to investment banker with JP Morgan, to serial entrepreneur in technology, renewable energy and now to gaming.
Sarah’s background in Organizational Psychology, somatic leadership and research on dolphins.
Purposeful games as vehicles of training and coaching
The surfacing of team dynamics and individual preferences through games
Task vs. process in teams
Emergent and distributed leadership through game simulation
Helping, caring and collaboration behaviors in teams
3 Game Form Factors: escape rooms, mobile cases, large group games
Time length of games and team size considerations
The origins of escape games in Asia
Designing collaborative games
Integrating assessments into the gaming experience
Using games with teams at scale
The role of coaching, facilitation and training with team games
Generational and other diversity effects on game experiences
Flow states: the neuroscience of play, creativity, engagement, flow

Looking to add some fun and spice to your team coaching engagements? Dive into the world of Vitality Teaming with Brad Albright and Sarah Raccuglia and let them help you take your team coaching game to the next level! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

Can team coaching serve as a vehicle for leadership development in addition to generating better business results? How does team coaching create collaborative energy across teams and organizations? What happens when team coaches slow down the action in order to allow moments of truth to surface? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Dr. Hilary Lines to explore these and other interesting topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast!

Dr. Hilary Lines is a Founding Partner at Touchpoint Leaders where she is a practicing Executive and Team Coach. She is also a Faculty Member in team coaching at the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), and a co-author of the book Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations (with Jacqui Scholes-Rhodes). Themes covered in this episode include:

Lines’ journey from business researcher to HR professional working with R&D teams, to leadership development and change management consultant and later to Head of Partner Development at Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting, to leadership coach and consultant at IBM, to leading her own Executive and Team Coaching business and becoming a Faculty Member at the Academy of Executive Coaching.
Teams as nested entities
“Leadership at the Touchpoint” as first described in Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations (Lines and Scholes-Rhodes) that spans individual, team and organizational coaching
Organizations as networks of relationships; relationships as the prime source of value creation in organizations
Team coaching as a vehicle for leadership development and creating collaborative energy
Leadership as residing in the relationships between individuals, teams and organizational systems
Hilary Lines and John Leary-Joyce’s forthcoming book on Systemic Team Coaching
Story of coaching a team in a professional services firm
The role of team leaders in team coaching engagements
Moments of choice as team coaches: Slowing down the action in order to surface moments of truth
Coaching individuals on the team in addition to the team and the team leader
Team coaching as a learning process
Insights into the training of team coaches: the What, the How and the Who
Trends in the team coaching industry
Resources for team coaches and more…

This is yet another episode chock full of learning gems for team coaches. Get into the Team Coaching Zone today and let Dr. Hilary Lines help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! To learn more about Dr. Hilary Lines visit: www.TouchpointLeaders.com. For episode show notes and more information on team coaching go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com.

How do we more fully integrate the "being" aspect of team coaching with the "doing"? What are the essential competencies that need to be internalized to successfully coach teams? How do we accelerate our learning as team coaches and as a team coaching community? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Georgina Woudstra to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast.

Georgina Woudstra is an ICF Master Certified Coach and Principal & Founder of the Executive Coach Studio (http://www.executivecoachstudio.com/). She has over 20 years of experience and specializes in coaching chief executives and senior leadership. She also trains team coaches through the Executive Coach Studio's Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery.

Some themes explored in this episode include:

Georgina’s journey as a successful entrepreneur, her dive into the field of coaching and her development into coaching teams
Coaching competencies needed to successfully coach teams
Coaching presence
Additional roles one may play that are separate from coaching and Georgina's stance on maintaining a “pure” coaching role
Coaching the team 80-90% of the time
How coaches use control and structure to manage anxiety vs. actually coaching the team
The coach's relationship with the team leader and team
Case example that shifted her team coaching practice from structure to emergence
Her lessons learned on becoming a reflective practitioner by journaling and looking inward
Process consultation and systemic team coaching
How to accelerate your learning as team coach
4 module Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery
Forming team coaching learning communities
The relational element of team coaching as an emerging trend
Reflections on the market need for team coaching and the importance of self-as-instrument

This is a great episode for coaches interested in learning how to navigate the art of team coaching. Georgina strikes at the heart of team coaching and creates a compelling case for the importance of the “being” of a team coach. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

How do we coach across individuals, teams and systems to drive organizational change? Is it possible to be both an internal leader and an organizational coach at the same time? Do team coaches need to be subject matter experts in the content of what the teams are working on?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Phillip Cave to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Phillip Cave is a Life and Organizational Fulfillment Coach and a Senior Manager at Accenture. He is a people and organizational transformation leader with more than 27 years of experience creating himself, technology startups and coaching organizations. His experience in software engineering, leadership and product management shifted to professional life coaching which results in cultural shifts in Fortune 50 companies.

Some themes explored in this episode include:

Phillip’s journey from photographer to software developer, to becoming a leader and manager of teams and people, to becoming an organizational coach.
Metaphor of a chiropractor: creating alignment across teams, leaders and organizations
Forces driving the shift to new forms of organizational design and effectiveness: 1) agile movement and 2) humanness
Coaching as a vehicle to help individuals and systems emerge
Engaging leaders around their willingness to lead transformation: both the “being” as well as the “doing” aspects
Coaching leaders to see themselves as part of the system and not apart from it
The Lean Change Canvas
Role of the coach to act as a mirror to help the organization “see itself”
Case example: building a new commerce platform over the course of 1 year with a team of 70 at Starbucks
Coaching the “team’s voice”
Being part of the leadership team as an internal director and organizational coach at the same time
Challenging teams to embody roles like “scrum master” as a function distributed across the team rather than as a job owned by one person
Team Performance Model: resource form coaching teams across the lifecycle
The emergence of the “Management Coach” job in companies
Learning how to be a catalyst of people
The merging of worlds: technology + learning and development
Coaching organizational design and effectiveness
Reflections on the future of organizational coaching and more

This is a great episode for coaches interested in understanding how organizational coaching is adapting in order to stay relevant in an era of disruptive organizational change. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

How is work changing and how do we design organizations to be fit for purpose in the knowledge and collaboration economy? How do we form and equip teams to balance capability with infinite demand? How do we coach teams for emergence?

Tune in this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling questions with featured guest Gabe Abella--an Organizational Coach and Vice President in Global Technology at JP Morgan Chase and an accredited Kanban trainer.

Themes covered in the podcast include:

• Gabe’s journey from project and program manager to organizational coach

• Fundamental shifts occurring in how we approach and organize work in the knowledge and collaboration economy

• Understanding 3 Natures: 1) the nature of the work the team is doing, 2) the nature of the organization, 3) the nature of the environment/market

• The infinite backlog and the finite team: balancing capability with demand

• Kanban – Lean; visual management system; seeing the flow of work; “look at the board” or signal card; an improvement method

• Problem-solving as a biological process: iterative cycles and learning

• The invisibility of knowledge work

• Collocated vs. distributed teams

• Team formation for organizational realignments

• Skills vs. roles and motivation in team formation

• Being invisible as a team coach

• Use of simulation prior to engaging in real work in order to reduce learning anxiety

• Fitness for Purpose Framework

• Diffusion of Innovation

• Flow Lab – experiential simulation to overcome efficiency mindset and more

• Reflections on the ongoing coaching of teams and scaling agile

• Implications of agile coaching for non-software teams

• Coaching for emergence

• Tons of great resources for team coaches and more!

The Agile movement is disrupting organizations and our approaches to working, learning and teaming. All team coaches need to increase their own agility and to be fit for purpose themselves in order to compete in the knowledge and collaboration economy. Tune in to this episode and let Gabe Abella help you elevate your team coaching game today!

How does arts-based learning rapidly transform culture and performance in teams and organizations? What is the relationship between creative thinking, collaboration and innovation? What research evidence exists to support incorporating arts-based learning in teams? How can these processes be scaled up in organizations?

Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews special guest Harvey Seifter to explore these and other compelling topics. Harvey Seifter is Founder and Director of Art of Science Learning (www.artofsciencelearning.org) and Principal Investigator of its two National Science Foundation grants and is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts‐based learning.

Themes explored in the podcast include:

Harvey’s journey from classically trained musician to author to Founder of the Art of Science Learning
Harvey’s experience at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and his 2001 book Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductorless Orchestra
Convening the field of arts-based learning in business
Metaforming (symbolic modelling)
2012 $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation exploring arts-based learning, innovation and business
-The development of an arts-based innovation process and curriculum
The creation of 3 innovation incubators: San Diego, Chicago, Worcester
Teaching innovation through doing it: research on 29 cross-disciplinary teams; 22 teams after 1 year went to market (products, processes, services)
The core skills of innovation as well as phases
Approaches to infusing arts-based approaches: music, improv, movement, conducting, drawing, sketching
Wicked problems as failures of imagination
Experimental research: randomized and controlled study of arts-based learning and innovation in teams:
2 phases of innovation: 1) what is the problem and 2) how do we solve it: each with a converge and diverge component
The linkage between divergent thinking, convergent thinking, business results and culture change
Using research and data to bring arts from the fringes into the center of business processes
A story of applying arts-based learning to foster creativity with 22 startups within a Fortune 500 organization
The future of innovation, arts-based learning and wicked problems

This is an episode that truly all teams, team leaders, and team coaches cannot afford to miss! For show notes and more great information and resources on team coaching go to: http://www.teamcoachingzone.com/

How does team coaching contribute to team effectiveness and the diffusion of organizational learning? What is the state of research on team coaching? How can team coaches leverage research to inform practice? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these fundamental questions that strike at the heart of the efficacy of team coaching. Melissa Sayer is a Team & Executive Coach for Performance Hub and a Doctoral Student of team coaching at the University of Portsmouth. Colm Murphy is a Business Coach for teams & leaders for Dynamic Leadership Development Limited and a Doctoral Student of team coaching at the University of Portsmouth as well.

Themes covered in the podcast include:

-How Colm & Melissa teamed up to contribute to both team coaching scholarship & practice

-Colm’s dissertation topic: how team coaching contributes to team effectiveness

-Melissa’s dissertation topic: how team coaching contributes to organizational learning

-The research-practice gap in the team coaching field

-Lack of stakeholder voice in team coaching evaluation measures

-The imbalance of current research focusing on leadership teams vs. other types of teams -Team coaching as a learning partnership

-Teams as central to the diffusion of learning in organizations

-The critical role of coaching as a vehicle for facilitating the “transfer of learning”

-The 4 I’s of Learning Transfer: Intuiting, Interpreting, Integrating and Institutionalizing

-The wide body of research on team effectiveness and how to measure it

-Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of learning evaluation

-Learning in real time via team coaching

-Defining and differentiating team coaching

-Bringing one’s whole self as a team coach

-3 evolutionary metaphors for teams: machine, family, system

-Team coaching as an emergent process

-Case examples and lessons learned from coaching real teams

-And more!

Now that the Fall semester is getting underway, it’s time for team coaches to head back to school and get their learning on as well! Tune in to this episode and let Melissa and Colm help you take your scholarship and practice in the area of team coaching to the next level!

How does the shift from the knowledge economy to the collaboration economy impact how we coach leaders and teams in organizations? How can peer group coaching, team coaching and guided mentoring support this shift? Tune in for this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast with guest Glain Roberts-McCabe to explore these and other interesting topics and questions. Glain Roberts-McCabe is the Founder & President of The Roundtable--a group & team coaching organization based in Toronto, Canada where leaders cultivate their leadership together.

Some themes covered in this podcast include:

-Glain’s journey from line leader to classroom trainer to focusing on business development to group and team coaching and then to founding The Roundtable 10 years ago

-Peer group coaching, team coaching and guided mentoring in organizations

-Addressing high potentials who are at risk of derailment and how they can coach and learn together

-The shift from the knowledge economy to the collaborative economy

-The hunger for belonging & connectivity in Gen X and the Millennials

-The shift to collaborative and collective leadership

The Roundtable: a group coaching program targeting leadership development

-Use of Feedforward in group coaching

-Why coaching leaders in groups is often more powerful than coaching leaders alone one-to-one: seeing people in context

-Flipping the classroom approach: how to augment group coaching with training modules

-Size, length and frequency of group coaching sessions

-How to use a twist on mastermind groups using peer coaching

-Upping the coaching skills of group members

-The story of an award winning program delivered at PepsiCo by The Roundtable

Using group coaching to help leaders and managers learn how to coach their own teams

-Team coaching as a guise or stealth approach for leadership development

-Guided group mentoring: coaching leaders to mentor groups

-Accordion approach to team coaching: working with the team and the individual

-The innovative structure of The Roundtable company: advisory council, 1-day conference, members

-Great resources at www.GoRoundtable.com

The Roundtable approach is a best-in-class role model for how coaches can help organizations transform their approach to learning and also with the dramatic shift to the collaboration economy. This is an episode you cannot afford to miss!

What are the most powerful factors that predict team effectiveness? How much do the designing, launching and coaching phases influence team effectiveness? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast for a round table conversation with Dr Ruth Wageman, Pauline Willis and Dr. Krister Lowe to explore how the TDS Survey and the 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness answer these and other important topics facing teams in today’s organizations. Dr. Ruth Wageman is a thought leader and practitioner in the area of teams and team effectiveness, the author of Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great and one of the Creators of the Team Diagnostic Survey along with Dr. Richard Hackman. Pauline Willis is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, coach-mentor and thought leader in executive and team coaching with Lauriate, Ltd and the Coaching and Mentoring Network. Dr. Krister Lowe is an Organizational Psychologist, an executive and team coach and the Founder of the Team Coaching Zone, LLC.

In this episode of the podcast, show guests share their journey and mission to bring the TDS Survey and the 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness to the marketplace in order to increase team effectiveness in organizations and communities Themes covered in this episode include:

-Origins of the TDS survey and framework
-The 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness: 3 Essentials (Real Team, Compelling Purpose, Right People) & 3 Enablers (Sound Structure, Supportive Organizational Context, Team Coaching)
-Chronology and sequencing of the 6 conditions
-3 Key Task Processes: Effort, Strategy, Knowledge & Skill
-3 Team Effectiveness Outcomes: Task Performance, Group Process, Member Satisfaction
-How the TDS helps predict up to 80% of a team’s effectiveness
-The 60-30-10 rule of team intervention: Designing, Launching and Coaching phases of teams
-Abundance of poorly designed teams
-Upcoming launch of the the Team Diagnostic Survey
-Stories/Applications using the TDS Survey with real-world teams: with team leaders: the team leader as team coach; leadership teams that struggle with purpose and being a real team; the limits of training teams in soft skills and using personality assessments to increase performance; using personality assessments with team diagnostics in teams; teams vs. teaming; lessons applying the TDS when working with rapid teams; team of teams – using the TDS with multiple teams within an organization as well as partnering across organizations in an industry (e.g. healthcare); critical teams and change teams; reinventing organizations through transforming teams; supervision of team coaches; collaborative leadership teams; self-governing teams and more

This episode is essential listening for all team coaches who are seeking to understand the most powerful levers that drive team effectiveness as well as a measurement instrument that can help teams create the conditions for success. Tune in today and take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How does learning influence action and action influence learning in teams? How can coaches help teams leverage learning to solve complex problems in organizations? Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast to learn how special guest Dr. Peter Cauwelier leverages Action Learning to help organizations embed teaming and learning into their cultures. Peter Cauwelier, PhD is Chief Team Connector at TEAM.AS.ONE, Managing Director at ASIO Consulting, and Managing Director at the World Institute for Action Learning (Thailand). On the podcast Peter shares his journey from his origins in Belgium, to his move to Thailand 26 years ago, to his more than 20 years of experience leading multi-cultural teams in Asia in various operations management roles in the manufacturing sector, to his transition to becoming a Master Action Learning Coach and to his founding of ASIO Consulting and serving as the Managing Director of the World Institute of Action Learning.

Themes explored in the episode include:

-Action learning as a problem solving methodology for helping teams work on real complex problems

-The dynamic and reciprocal relationship between learning and action

-How to balance taking action with learning

-How Peter engages CEOs and Senior Leaders to let him use Action Learning on their most complex problems

-Applying Action Learning in ad hoc teams, intact teams and with leaders

-Stories of hits and misses applying Action Learning in a variety of teams and organizations

-Scaling Action Learning with multiple teams

-Embedding Action Learning within organizations and to foster teaming cultures

-Peter’s E-Book: Team-As-One: When A Team Connects

-A conference on teams that Peter is organizing in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November 2018

-And more!

This episode is essential listening for all team coaches who are seeking to unleash the power of learning to transform teams and drive organizational change. Tune in today and let Dr. Peter Cauwelier help you take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How can companies address the intersection of technology, complexity and humanity in order to be “ready” for the 21st century? How can we change mindsets and an organization’s “operating system” in order to foster continuous and participatory change? Tune in to this week’s featured episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where special guest Aaron Dignan shares his views on these and other important questions challenging today’s organizations. Aaron Dignan is the Founder of The Ready—an organization design and transformation partner that helps organizations change the way they work.

In this episode of the podcast, Aaron shares his journey to founding The Ready and his mission to changing how the world works by examining and transforming how we show up, organize, team and get things done in organizations. Some themes explored in the episode include:

3 forces influencing companies and the future of our species: technology, complexity, humanity
“Operating Systems” as a metaphor for seeing organizations as complex adaptive systems
Examining current tensions within an organization and how they can be transformed to drive continuous participatory change
The Operating System Canvas – 9 areas for organizational diagnosis and visioning
Services provided by The Ready
Two case examples of organizational intervention facilitated by The Ready: one involving decision making and transforming a company’s “meetings culture” and a second case involving an agile transformation
The role of emergence in organizational consultation and change
Dynamic teaming and more

As the world becomes increasingly complex and uncertain, traditional ways of organizing are holding us back. The Ready provides organizational design and transformation consultants and coaches with a vision as well as practical insights for how institutions can be reinvented to thrive as adaptive networks fit for the 21st century. This is an episode that all team coaches cannot afford to miss. Tune in today and get Ready to upgrade your game!

What forces are disrupting the nature of teaming in organizations? How can team coaches keep up with the pace of change in organizations? What opportunities exist beyond coaching high performing teams? Tune in to this week's episode of the The Team Coaching Zone podcast with special guest Professor Hawkins to explore these and other compelling questions.

In this episode Professor Hawkins updates listeners on what he has been up to in the Team Coaching field since he last appeared 2 years ago in episode #019 of the TCZ podcast. Themes covered in this episode include:

The recent release of the 3rd Edition of Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership
Forces disrupting the team coaching industry: threats and opportunities
Leadership about orchestrating the partnership ecosystem
Coaching partnerships, networks and relationships between teams
Creating teaming cultures
4 Levels of Team Coaching: High Performing Team Coaching, System Team Coaching, Systemic Team Coaching, Ecosystemic Team Coaching
Coaching New Types of Teams: startup teams, cutting edge teams, black ops teams, red teams, shadow teams, teams of teams and more
Practical tips for coaching teams
Developing team coaches and more

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the great pioneers and thought leader in the team coaching field! This is an episode you surely will not want to miss!

Is the goal of team coaching just about developing better performing teams? Can team coaching also help create better leaders in organizations and the world? How can team coaches balance the roles of coach, facilitator, trainer and consultant in team coaching? Tune in to this week's episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews Serhan Kuseyrioğlu--a Founder and Managing Partner at Elemental V based in Istanbul Turkey--to reveal the answer to these and other important questions.

In the episode Serhan shares her compelling story from studying dentistry to becoming a corporate executive in the pharmaceutical industry to discovering coaching and then to founding Elemental V. Themes explored in the episode include: -

Serhan's approach to creating Dream Teams

-Using team assessments in team coaching

-Kickoff workshops

-Frequency of team coaching sessions

-Embedding skills training in team coaching

-Team coaching as a vehicle for leadership development

-Pitching team coaching engagements to clients

-Co-team coaching

-A story of coaching a challenging team to becoming a Dream Team

-And more

Serhan models in an effortless way how coaching helps us to live more consciously and boldly. And she demonstrates how it also has the power to transform both our individual lives and businesses. This is an episode that all team coaches will surely not want to miss!

What can sailing on a tall ship teach us about increasing our leadership agility and building high performing teams? How can we as coaches and team coaches challenge both ourselves as well as our clients to bring more wholeness and purpose into modern organizations? Would reconnecting more closely with nature reinvigorate individual, team and organizational learning and performance and take us to new levels? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these and other compelling questions.

In this episode, host Dr. Krister Lowe is joined by two colleagues and friends Eric Kohner--a master coach, a senior faculty member at the Coaches Training Institute and a pioneer in coach training and leadership development--and Pim Harder--an individual, team and systems coach who has been a pioneer in bringing coaching to the education and law enforcement sectors in the Netherlands.

On the show Eric, Pim and Krister share stories, insights and lessons learned from The Nautilus Experience--a recent leadership and team coach training program that they facilitated on the Wylde Swan tall ship as part of the England to Portugal leg of the 2017 Transatlantic Tall Ships Race and Regatta. Themes explored in the episode include: 1) Eric, Pim and Krister's 1-year journey in becoming a team and conceiving and delivering The Nautilus Program; 2) challenging the leadership and team coaching industry to engage the full human being through the 5 Knowledge Center framework including the Head (Reason), Heart (Emotion), Gut (Intuition), Groin (Passion), and Hands (Action); 3) the role of Nature as a 6th and unifying Knowledge Center; 3) stories of delivering the program on the Wylde Swan tall ship over the course of 2 weeks; 4) the story of how the program became called "The Nautilus Experience"; 5) insights about going through the stages of Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing as both a facilitation team as well as a learning community; and more. The Guys share more about the future of The Nautilus Experience as well as resources where listeners can learn more: www.TeamCoachingZone.com/Nautilus

Tune in and get inspired to take your team coaching practice to the next level!

Will artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies render coaches irrelevant? How can coaches embrace and integrate technology into their coaching practices rather than be freaked out or misguided by it? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews special guest Dr. Jonathan Kirschner--Founder and CEO of AIIR Consulting--to answer these and other important questions.

Dr. Jonathan Kirschner is Founder and CEO of AIIR Consulting, a Member of the AIIR Global Coaching Alliance, an Executive Coach and a Business Psychologist. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Religion from New York University and a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from Widener University. Jonathan leads a team of professionals at AIIR Consulting dedicated to helping clients achieve sustainable change through the AIIR Method--a place where business and psychology meet. In this episode of the podcast Dr. Kirschner shares his compelling journey to founding AIIR Consulting; AIIR's 4 stage method for driving sustainable change; how AIIR differentiates and scales coaching using technology; The Coaching Zone, Enterprise Coaching Manager and Team Zone platforms; AIIR's approach to Team Effectiveness; the essential dimensions of Team Culture and Team Productivity; AIIR's modular approach to team intervention and coaching; as well as stories coaching both client teams as well as teams within AIIR itself.

This is a rich episode that provides listeners with a range of useful tips and tools as well as a compelling vision for how coaches can remain relevant in an increasingly technology-augmented world. Dive into The Team Coaching Zone today and let Dr. Kirschner help you take your team coaching practice to the next level!

What can the Agile approach teach us about sustaining momentum in team coaching engagements? How do leaders and organizations need to evolve in order to enable a shift to agile teaming? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast with Host Dr. Krister Lowe and guests Art Pittman and Bob Costello to learn the answers to these and other intriguing questions.

Art Pittman is a Leadership Coach with the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, an Agile Team Coach with the Eliassen Group and an Adjunct Staff at the Center for Creative Leadership. Bob Costello is a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group-an IT Staffing, Recruiting and Consulting Company. In the episode, Art and Bob share their insights about coaching leaders, teams and organizations to become more agile. Some themes covered include:
-Trends in agile
-The mainstreaming of agile
-The role of leaders in agile change
-The story of the Chicken and the Pig
-Shifting to team-based organizational designs in new companies vs. large established ones
-Factors that impact momentum in team coaching
-Complex adaptive systems and simple rules
-The role of norms in teams
-Team maturity and indicators of development
-Mindset in teams
-Vulnerability and psychological safety
-And more!

This is a rich episode brimming over with practical insights, tips and resources that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! Get in The Team Coaching Zone Today and start taking your team coaching practice to the next level!

What would be possible if schools and workplaces focused on cultivating people's strengths? Why is coaching the magic catalyst for unleashing the potential of strengths in individuals and teams? How can organizations move from a global average of 13% on engagement metrics to 70-80% through a strengths-based approach? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast with special guest Paul Allen--Global Strengths Evangelist with the Gallup organization--to explore these and other important questions.

In this episode of the podcast host Krister Lowe and TCZ partner George Johnson explore a range of themes with guest Paul Allen including:
1. Paul's journey from tech entrepreneur and Founder of Ancestry.com to joining the Gallup organization as a Global Strengths Evangelist.
2. Don Clifton and the origins of the strengths-based movement.
3. An introduction to the StrengthsFinder assessment and the 34 strengths.
4. Four strengths domains (Strategic, Execution, Relationship, Influence).
5. Coaching individuals and teams with a strengths-based focus.
6. How to approach weaknesses.
7. Stories of transforming individuals and teams through a strengths-based approach.
8. Reaching 1 billion people and 1 million coaches via StrengthsFinder.
9. Research on strengths and teams.
10. Why a strengths-based approach is needed in the world now.
11. How coaches can incorporate a strengths-based approach into their coaching practice.

This is an episode that all team coaches can't afford to miss! Tune in today and begin your journey to helping unleash the power of strengths to transform individuals, teams, organizations and even the world!

How can team coaches help project teams successfully deliver results? What makes team coaching an essential condition for teams working on "complex" vs. "complicated" projects? Can the project manager be the team's coach? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews special guest Tony Llewellyn on these and more thought-provoking questions!

Tony Llewellyn, M.Sc. is a team coach, the author of "Performance Coaching on Complex Projects: Influencing Behavior and Enabling Change," a Collaboration Director at Resolex, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. Tony has a 30+ year background working on complex projects in the construction and real estate industries and for the past 5 years has been focusing on developing team coaching within the project management field.

In this episode of the podcast Tony shares:
1. His journey from working as a Director and Partner on complex projects to the field of team coaching.
2. Why team coaching is necessary for the evolution of the project management field at this time.
3. Challenges faced by project teams that require team coaching.
4. Tony's 5 Phase Team Coaching Model for Project Teams
5. Two stories applying the team coaching concepts on large construction projects.
6. Tony's 2016 book "Performance Coaching on Complex Projects: Influencing Behavior and Enabling Change"
7. His website and free resources: http://www.teamcoachingtoolkit.com/

This episode provides all those working in the project management arena with a compelling case for incorporating team coaching into the PM approach. It also provides all team coaches with some rich insights into managing complexity in teams, how to overcome some of the key pitfalls of complex projects, as well as how to capitalize on some of the opportunities that await those who dare to make the plunge into this arena. The is an episode that you will surely not want to miss! Tune in today and take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How do the unconscious dynamics of a team impact its ultimate performance? What are some practical ways that team coaches can enable the secret life of groups to support rather than thwart team effectiveness? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and guest Christine Thornton--author of "Group and Team Coaching: The Secret Life of Groups"-- for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to discover the answer to these and other important questions!

Themes explored in the episode include:
-Christine's journey into group analysis and group and team coaching
-The origins of group analysis
-6 practice elements from Group Analysis that inform team coaching (1. Attending to the Individual; 2. Nuances of Interpersonal Communication; 3. Attention to Context; 4. the Value of Multiple Perspectives; 5. Creative Incorporation of Difference; 6. Anxiety and Leadership Projections)
-A case example involving a leadership team
-Christine's book "Group and Team Coaching: The Secret Life of Groups" (2nd Edition)
-Christine's training programs and supervision groups for group and team coaches and more

All team coaches need a basic understanding of group dynamics in order to be able to "hold" a group for learning and performance to unfold. Dive in today and begin your journey into discovering the secret life of groups!

Why do some team coaching engagements seem to get traction and create magic while others peter out and fail to produce results? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast with Host Dr. Krister Lowe and special guest Dr. Richard Boyatzis to discover the answer to this important question.

Dr. Richard Boyatzis is the H.R. Horvitz Professor of Family Business, a Professor of Organizational Behavior and a Distinguished University University Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Using his well-established Intentional Change Theory (ICT) and complexity theory, Richard Boyatzis, PhD, has continued to research how people and organizations engage in sustainable, desired change. The theory predicts how changes occur in different groups of human organizations, including team, community, country and global change. Ongoing research supporting this theory includes developing new and better measures of an individual’s emotional, social and cognitive intelligence as well as studies that demonstrate the relationship between these abilities and performance. His latest research includes fMRI studies to establish neuro-endocrine arousal of coaching to the Positive Emotional Attractor and resonant leadership.

In this episode, laden with "value bombs," Dr. Boyatzis outlines his more than 50 year journey in the area of coaching and how this led to his seminal work on Intentional Change Theory. Some of the themes covered in the episode include: why training fails to create change; what is required for coaching to be effective at create sustainable change in individuals, teams and systems; the role of purpose, learning, emotion, strengths and relationships in the change process; why team coaching engagements get or don't get traction; what coaches should focus on in a coaching session; the 5 discoveries of ICT; the positive and negative emotional attractor and how the balance drives or inhibits change; peer coaching as the main form of learning and team coaching in the future and more.

Dr. Boyatzis also shares a rich list of resources where listeners can further their learning on his important work. This is truly an episode that team coaches will listen to repeatedly and is chock full of wisdom and insights that will take your team coaching practice to the next level. Enjoy! For show notes for this episode go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com

Can team coaching help address gender inequity in our societies? What role do women's leadership teams have in transforming our society and in building sustainable peace? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these questions and more with special guest Dr. Susan Coleman!

Dr. Susan Coleman is the Host of The Peacebuilding Podcast, an internationally recognized mediator, and a team and systems coach with more than three decades of experience. She specializes in the field of peace building, conflict resolution and strategies to build common ground. Her recent focus is on women's leadership development.

In this episode of the TCZ podcast, Susan shares her journey from a corporate attorney working on litigation to discovering the world of integrative negotiation at the Program on Negotiation, to pioneering work in the field of intercultural negotiation and conflict resolution training at Columbia University and the United Nations, to developing as a systems intervener blending a range of methods including training, coaching, consulting, mediation and facilitation; to developing as a Gesltalt-based practitioner and ICF certified coach; to her current focus on supporting women's leadership development as well as being the Host of The Peacebuilding Podcast. Susan also shares a recent powerful team coaching case study working with senior women leaders in the Afghan government as a consultant for UN Women and team of other coaches and consultants. Themes covered in the episode include: self-management as a team coach; blending a range of methods in team coaching interventions; the role of vulnerability in team coaching; women's collective leadership development; embodiment in team coaching; team coaching in peacebuilding settings and more.

This is an inspiring episode that reveals the value that team coaches can play at even the highest levels of society and government as well as the need for team coaching at the leadership level in our countries. The is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

How can organizations upgrade their operating models to adapt more effectively in an increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world? Tune in to this week's episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast with guest Olivier Compagne of HolacracyOne to find out. Olivier is a Partner at HolacracyOne as well as a seasoned consultant and coach with years of experience supporting companies transitioning to Holacracy.

In this episode of the podcast learn about Olivier's journey from his homeland in France to coming to the US to pursue a Master’s in Psychology with a focus on adult development, to his study of various conflict-resolution practices from Non-Violent Communication to mediation, and to his discovery of Holacracy.

Themes explored in the episode include: the need to upgrade our organizational operating models to be fit for the 21st century; the trends and movements that inspired Holacracy; defining Holacracy; self-managing organizations; the role of teams and circles in Holacracy; distributed authority and the governance process; the iterative process of updating the organizational structure; moving away from job descriptions to roles; how teams link up to each other as part of larger wholes; conflict resolution and decision making in the system; the role of coaching in Holacracy; how to introduce Holacracy into organizations; the book by Brian Robertson "Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World;" and more.

Olivier also shares some stories of companies that have implemented Holacracy as well as how consultants and coaches can become trained in the system.

This is an episode that all team coaches cannot afford to miss!

Does building a high performing team require knowledge of rocket science? Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to discover the answer with guest Dr. Gordon Curphy--the Managing Partner of Curphy Leadership Solutions. Dr. Curphy is the author of 19 books including The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams released in 2012. He is also the creator of Team Assessment Survey (TAS-II) based on the Rocket Model. Dr. Curphy has 30 years of experience working with more than 1500+ leaders, 200+ teams and consulting to a long list of leading organizations in a diverse array of industries and sectors.

Themes explored in the podcast include: Gordon’s journey from being a professor in the United States Armed Forces, to joining PDI, to working with the Blandin Foundation and then to setting up Curphy Leadership Solutions; Gordon’s 2012 book The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams; why high performing teams tend to be more the exception than the rule; the importance of having a team model; a compelling story about two ship-wrecked crews in the Antarctic; 8 elements and 3 stages of the rocket model: 1) Context, 2) Mission, 3) Talent, 4) Norms, 5) Buy-in, 6) Power, 7) Morale, 8) Results; the Team Assessment Survey (TAS-II); using the Rocket Model and TAS in team coaching and in leadership development programs; a story coaching a leadership team in a $billion retail organization facing a critical turnaround; lessons learned about when team coaching fails; resources for extending learning on the Rocket Model and utilizing the TAS-II; certification in the TAS-II; thoughts on future trends in teaming and more.

This is a rich episode laden with “value bombs” that all team leaders, team members and team coaches will surely not want to miss!

What can we learn from the past and present of team coaching in order to understand its future? What role will team coaching play in helping build 21st century organizations that are fit for purpose? What challenges and opportunities currently face team coaching as an emergent niche area within the larger coaching field? Tune in to this special episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to find out!

This episode features a replay of a panel discussion on "The Past, Present and Future of Team Coaching" that was held on October 20, 2016 at the 2nd International Columbia University Coaching Conference which took place in New York City. The session was co-moderated by Dr. Krister Lowe (Host of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast (www.TeamCoaching Zone.com) and Dr. Sandra Hayes--an expert in Adult Learning, Leadership and Coaching. 7 key thought leaders and pioneers in team coaching were featured on the panel including: Jennifer Britton, David Clutterbuck, Marita Fridjhon, Dr. Peter Hawkins, DJ Mitsch, Phillip Sandhal, and Dr. Ruth Wageman. The panelists participated remotely via the Zoom meeting platform.

The session explored 3 broad questions:
1) What was the Zeitgeist that led these pioneers to contribute to the emergence of the team coaching field?
2) What key lessons learned stand out for each of the pioneers as result of their work coaching teams in organizations?
3) What are some of the key challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in the future for the field of Team Coaching?

If you are interested in understanding more about the Past, Present and Future of team coaching then this is an episode that you will not want to miss! For episode Show Notes go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com/Past_Present_Future_Team_Coaching. For a video-based version of this episode go to The Team Coaching Zone channel on YouTube: https://youtu.be/i3fb6RLnTcI

What can the millennial generation of team coaches teach us about teams, teaming and team coaching? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to find out! In this episode host Dr. Krister Lowe explores this topic with Yehudi Meshchaninov--a millennial team coach and the Founder of Leadership Labs NYC.

In the episode Yehudi shares his journey to team coaching beginning as a Rabbinical student where he was interested in exploring spiritual traditions; to discovering positive psychology and pursuing a master's degree; to working in education reform in New York City schools; to starting Leadership Labs NYC where he has been consulting to tech startups, boutique consulting firms and small businesses as a team coach; to pursuing an interdisciplinary doctorate at Columbia University in Adult Learning, Leadership and Organizational Psychology.

Some themes explored in this episode include: the role of learning in an age of constant change; Millennial values and how they are pushing a desire to bring the whole person to work; rapid iteration, sub-optimizing and learning in context; the role of spirituality in work; influences on Yehudi's approach to team coaching including structuralism (organizational psychology) developmentalism (adult learning and leadership); using video feedback in coaching and more. Yehudi also shares four stories coaching teams that reveal some powerful lessons learned and practical tips for team coaches.

This is a fun, inspiring and thought-provoking episode that you are not going to want to miss! Tune into today and get ready to take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How can you make team coaching as simple, sticky and fun as possible? And why is that critically important? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast with Rob Bier--Founder of 6:30 Partners and Executive and Team Coach--to find out.

Rob Bier has coached full-time for seven years. His background makes him equally comfortable working with the soft and the hard sides of business and people challenges. Prior to becoming a coach Rob served as founder and CEO of two private equity-backed companies in financial services, and previous to that he was a partner in Monitor Group, the strategy consulting firm.

Rob studied coaching with Professor Chris Argyris of the Harvard Business School, at the Coaches Training Institute, and with Nancy Kline of Time to Think. He has an engineering degree from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

In this podcast episode, Rob shares his journey from graduate school in the United States, to working with the Monitor Group in the UK, to building his own leadership team in a financial services company that he started in the Netherlands, to moving to Singapore and establishing 6:30 Partners.

Themes explored in the podcast include: connecting team coaching to business performance; team coaching in Asia; three guiding principles for team coaching: simplicity, stickiness and fun; the positivity-productivity framework by Team Coaching International; the white-water rafting metaphor of team coaching; and using “The Thinking Environment” from Nancy Kline to create psychological safety and surface hidden conflict.

Rob shares two stories from his team coaching practice: a success story with the leadership team of a tech startup; and a semi-failure that surfaced conflict too quickly. He also discusses his thoughts on the future of team coaching and shares a number of tips and resources including: "Time to Think" by Nancy Kline; use of the VoxVote app; Patrick Lencioni's books The 5 Dysfunctions and The Advantage, and more. He also telegraphs his own book, "The Big Ride," which will be coming out in 2017.

This is a rich episode that all new as well as experienced team coaches will not want to miss! Tune in today to begin taking your team coaching practice to the next level!

How can leaders, teams and organizations bring human spirit and engagement back to the world of work? Tune in to this week's special Halloween episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews DJ Mitsch the Founder and Chief Coaching Officer of the Pyramid Resource Group and the Author of "Zombies to Zealots: Reawaken the Human Spirit at Work."

DJ Mitsch was featured back in Episode #009 of the TCZ podcast where she introduced listeners to the Team Advantage team coaching approach and to some stories that illustrate the transformative potential of team coaching in organizations.

In this episode DJ takes us into the journey of how we can move from being "zombies" at work into become "zealots." Themes explored in show include: the impetus for the book; the cause of low engagement in organizations; paying attention to the language we use at work and in particular to how we refer to people; a new consciousness trying to emerge in today's organizations; reclaiming the mind, heart, body and soul in our work; 4 pathways back to the light:

Reawaken
Remember
Reconnect
Rehumanize

DJ also shares linkages of the book to team leadership and to team coaching.

This is an inspiring episode that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! Tune in today and get ready to come back to life!

What is it that sets team coaching apart from other modalities, and what makes this way of working so powerful? Alexander Caillet—Founder and CEO of Corentus—has a clear point of view: team coaching focuses on real work, in real time, for real results.

Over the past 20+ years, Alexander has worked with more than 150 teams in more than 30 countries across five continents. In addition to his client work, he also conducts intensive team coaching training, through both Georgetown University and the Corentus Team Coaching Certificate Program. In this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast, Alexander shares his journey into team coaching and his perceptions of the possibilities and promise of this growing field.

Themes explored on the podcast include:

The impact of coaching teams in real time, on real business issues
Limits of traditional team development approaches
Several different hats team coaches may wear
The need for practical team tools
Factors influencing the demand for team coaching engagements
Structure of team coaching engagements
Using sociograms for data gathering
Self-coaching within teams
What it takes to achieve sustainable change in teams
Critical considerations for coaching a team leader
Team coaching presence and mindset
and more.

Alexander relates stories from his own experience—both failures and successes—and highlights the lessons he’s learned about what it takes to practice effectively and responsibly as a team coach. He also shares a variety of resources for aspiring team coaches and current practitioners—ranging from self-guided learning tools to the 9-month Corentus Team Coaching Certificate Program to the 2017 Team Coaching Toolbox Gathering. (More information is available at www.corentus.com.)

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from an influential pioneer and thought leader in the team coaching field!

Join host Dr. Krister Lowe and today's featured guest Karin Zastrow--an innovator in the field of leadership and management development--for this week's episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Karin is the Founder and CEO of the Zastrow company based in Copenhagen Denmark. She is the author of the book and training program "Direct Leadership: The New Narrative of Every Day Leadership."

In this episode of the podcast, Karin shares her personal journey from conducting staff satisfaction surveys to delivering leadership training programs to creating the Direct Leadership program. Themes explored in the podcast include: the gap that Karin perceived in the leadership development field that led to creating Direct Leadership; 7 essential roles for leader-managers (Strategy Developer, Organization Developer, Knowledge Manager, Team Builder, Decision Enabler, Career Developer, Performance Generator); 4 behaviors that help enact the roles (Catcher, Initiator, Coach, Referee); the leader-manager as team coach; how many leadership development programs focus on the human dimension yet fail to equip leaders with the every day practical skills that actually lead to results; the problem of promoting leader-managers who have not been equipped properly and more. Karin shares some stories of team leaders and organizations that have applied the Direct Leadership approach. She also discusses some of the resources and training programs she offers that team coaches may find useful to explore.

Leadership and team coaches looking for practical tools and frameworks that can help team leaders succeed will find this episode right up their alley! This is yet another episode that you will surely not want to miss!

How can organizations leverage and scale the agile and nimble nature of small high performing teams at the enterprise level? Tune in to this week's featured Team Coaching Zone podcast with David Silverman--Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CrossLead--to discover some insights and answers to this fundamental question of our times.

In this episode David shares his life-long journey being on and working with high performing teams beginning with an early interest in competitive swimming and water polo; to becoming a Navy SEAL officer where he served on numerous combat deployments over 12 years with distinction; to bringing back insights learned from transforming the US counter-terrorism effort against Al-Qaeda that could then be applied in the business world; to co-authoring the book "Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World" with General Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell, and Tantum Collins; and to founding the firm CrossLead in 2016 that provides an enterprise solution combining a proven framework, software and services to empower organizations to thrive in today's complex environment.

Additional themes explored in the episode include: the shift from the industrial age to the knowledge age and now to the digital age; the disruptive forces and adaptive challenges faced by today's organizations and how they can be overcome through scaling nimble agile teams on an enterprise level; some of the elements of successful teaming gleaned from the 10,000+ hours in becoming a Navy SEAL and working on the SEAL teams; the CrossLead framework, software and services and how they are being applied in organizations; and more.

David shares a number of stories and lessons learned throughout the podcast that apply to all organizations at this time of disruption that brings both great challenge as well as opportunity. This is an episode that all team coaches will surely not want to miss!

Join Host Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest Keith McCandless--the Co-Founder of Liberating Structures--for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! In this episode Keith introduces listeners to "Liberating Structures." LS are powerful microstructures or simple rules that help groups unleash a culture of innovation.

Keith is the Co-Founder of Liberating Structures (www.LiberatingStructures.com) along with his colleague Henri Lipmanowicz. They are both co-authors of the book "The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash a Culture of Innovation." Keith works with a diverse array of public and private organizations to help people take on complex challenges and innovation efforts. He specializes in unleashing everyone to work at the top of their collective intelligence. He calls himself a structured improvisationalist. He holds a Master's in Management of Human Science from Brandeis University in Boston and a B.A. from Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington.

Some themes explored in this podcast include: why planned change efforts tend to fail in organizations; the origins of liberating structures and why they help groups, teams and organizational systems develop new habits and culture; avoiding the extreme poles of top down change efforts on one end to the anarchy of open discussion and consensus-building and brainstorming on the other; reference to a number of the 33 structures; a compelling story of how Liberating Structures were used to transform a leadership team and whole subsidiary of a global company in Venezuela; how groups can very quickly in less than 20 minutes leverage their collective intelligence to innovate, make decisions, solve problems and more; the un-learning that is required to use Liberating Structures as a organizational consultant or pro facilitator and more. Keith also provides a brief overview of how listeners can quickly get up to speed on using Liberating Structures by visiting the website at www.LiberatingStructures.com, by reading the book and/or by attending an "immersion workshop" which are available in different places around the world.

Liberating Structures provides all team coaches with a powerful shift in mindset as well as a set of tools that help teams unleash their collective intelligence and that can unleash innovation as well as organizational change and transformation. This is an episode that all team coaches will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and show guests--Dr. Vanessa Druskat and Dr. Steven Wolff--for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. The title of this episode is: "Team Emotional Intelligence: Cracking the Code on High Performing Teams." Dr. Druskat is Associate Professor at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, USA. She is an internationally recognized expert on team effectiveness, team leadership, and emotional intelligence. She works with top leadership teams around the world and is passionate about helping teams meet their collaborative potential. Together with Vanessa Druskat, Dr. Steven B. Wolff has developed a theory of group emotional intelligence that extends the theory of individual emotional intelligence to the group level. Dr. Wolff has over ten years experience as a professor teaching and researching team effectiveness and leadership. He worked as a research consultant at HayGroup where he helped Richard Boyatzis and Daniel Goleman develop their second generation EI instrument (the ESCI), and has 15 years experience in the high-tech industry as an engineer and manager.

In this episode Dr. Druskat and Dr. Wolff take listeners on a journey from their early days in graduate school conducting research together on teams, to collaborating with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis on scholarship in the area of team emotional intelligence, to publishing an article in the Harvard Business Review on "Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups," to creating the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey, through some great stories working with real teams using the Team Emotional Intelligence framework and survey, to training team practitioners in the Team Ei instrument.

Specific themes covered in this episode include the 20 years of research behind team emotional intelligence; the team fundamentals, team emotional intelligence norms and social capital outputs that comprise team emotional intelligence and The Team Emotional intelligence Survey; lessons learned applying Team Ei with real world teams; the critical role of norms in facilitating team effectiveness; what differentiates good performing teams from high performing teams and more.

This is a rich episode that listeners are sure to listen to over and over again. All team coaches should be familiar with this important body of knowledge that cracks the code on what drives high performing teams. This is definitely an episode that you won't want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! In today's show, Dr. Lowe rounds out a 3-part series on Team Coaching Resources with a review of 5 team coach training programs. In the episode Krister puts training in the context of the 70-20-10 rule of learning as well as the 10,000 hour mastery perspective.

The five team coaching training programs reviewed in the episode include:

The Team Advantage Team Coaching Certification Program offered by The Pyramid Resource Group.
The Systemic Team Coaching Certificate and Certification Program offered by the Academy of Executive Coaching.
The Certified Team Performance Coach Certification Program offered by Team Coaching International.
The Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching Certification Program (ORSC) offered by CRR Global.
The Advanced Group and Team Coaching Intensive and Practicum offered by Potentials Realized.

Additional themes mentioned on the podcast are certification programs in the Team Diagnostic Survey and The Team Emotional Intelligence Assessment, the upcoming Columbia International Coaching Conference in October as well as special discounts on many of the training programs mentioned in today's episode for subscribers of The Team Coaching Zone newsletter. Sign up today at www.TeamCoachingZone.com!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! In this podcast, Krister shares his recommendations for books on team coaching. This is the second in a 3-part series focusing on resources for team coaches. The first episode looked at assessments in team coaching and the third episode will look at team coach training programs.

This episode is divided into 2 Parts:

Top 5 Books on Team Coaching
Recommendations on 10 Additional Books on Teams, Teaming, and Team Effectiveness/Performance.

Listeners will find this episode useful for reviewing some essential bodies of knowledge and resources relevant to the field of team coaching.

Finally, listeners are encouraged to go to http://www.teamcoachingzone.com to subscribe to the Zone's weekly newsletter which has information and discounts for upcoming team coaching training and assessment certification programs along with other helpful information for team coaches. Links to all the books mentioned in this episode can be found in the show notes page for this episode at www.teamcoachingzone.com as well as in the Resources section of the website.

Have a great day and remember to Stay in the Zone!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! In this episode, Krister shares his thinking around using assessments as part of team coaching engagements. This is the first in a 3-part series focusing on resources for team coaches. The second episode will look at leading team coaching books for team coaches. The third episode will look at some of the leading team coach training programs available.

Specific themes explored in this episode include:

The Pros & Cons of Using Assessments
Overview of individual Level Assessments
Overview of 5 Team Level Assessments
Alternative Methods of Assessment: surveys, interviews, focus groups and observation

Listeners will find this episode useful for understanding why to use assessments in the first place as well as what options are available for doing so. Krister also shares some of his experiences using assessments with clients.

Finally, listeners are encouraged to go to http://www.teamcoachingzone.com to subscribe to the Zone's weekly newsletter which has information and discounts on upcoming team coaching training and assessment certification programs along with other helpful information for team coaches.

Have a great day and remember to Stay in the Zone!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and thought leader in the area of team coaching—John Leary-Joyce—for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. John is the President and Founder of the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)—a global organization that provides a route for professionals to gain coaching mastery. He has rapidly established the AoEC as a brand of excellence accredited by the International Coaching Federation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and Middlesex University. He is the author of Fertile Void: Gestalt Coaching at Work, is a founder and thought leader of Systemic Team Coaching, and certifies and supervises team coaches around the world.

Themes explored in the podcast include: John’s journey as a Gestalt psychotherapist into executive and team coaching; the establishment of the AoEC; individual signature presence; incorporating the organizational and systemic context into coaching; John’s collaboration with Peter Hawkins; similarities and differences between team development, team facilitation and team coaching; the ongoing process of team coaching over time; the Five Disciplines of Team Coaching – Commissioning, Clarifying, Co-Creating, Connecting, Core Learning; inside out and outside in as well as the task and relationship components in team coaching; collective leadership; individual and collective performance appraisal within teams; the learning team; differentiating elements of Systemic Team Coaching; supervision of team coaches; shadow team coaches; being able to challenge as well as hold as a team coach; helping teams maintain momentum in team coaching; the future of team coaching and more.

In the episode John shares a number of success as well as failure stories from his executive and team coaching practice. He also shares information about AoEC’s team coach training programs; the Team Connect 360 diagnostic tool; his book Fertile Void: Gestalt Coaching at Work; as well as other resources available at www.aoec.com.

Systemic Team Coaching is one of the leading approaches to team coaching that all team coaches should explore. This episode provides a great introduction from one the thought leaders and founders in the area. This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and leading organizational scholar and practitioner Dr. Bill Torbert—a Principal at Action Inquiry Associates—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Bill Torbert received a BA in Politics and Economics and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Yale University. He served as the Founder and Director of the War on Poverty Yale Upward Bound program and the Theatre of Inquiry. He taught leadership at Southern Methodist University, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and from 1978-2008 at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College where he served as the graduate school Dean. He later served as the Director of the Organizational Transformation Doctoral Program. In addition to consulting to dozens of companies, not-for-profits and government agencies, Bill has served on a number of boards including notably at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare and Trillium Asset Management. As of 2014 he serves as Principal of Action Inquiry Associates and is a Founding Member of the Action Inquiry Fellowship. Bill has published a range of books, papers, psychometric assessments and has created a number of training programs and fellowships in Action Inquiry as well.

On this episode of the podcast Dr. Torbert shares his journey first growing up abroad as the son of a father who worked in the Foreign Service and where he had to learn a number of languages. These early experiences set the stage for his future work around “developmental action-logics.” Bill shares some of his experiences as a student of Chris Argyris at Yale and his work trying to create a collaborative program between blacks and whites in the Yale Upward Bound program. He discusses how the work in this program led to his interest in understanding the developmental stages of leaders and organizations.

Themes covered in the podcast include: developmental stages among leaders; the Global Leadership Profile; Action Inquiry; single, double & triple loop learning; 7 Developmental Action Logics – Opportunist, Diplomat, Expert, Achiever, Redefining, Transforming, Alchemical; unilateral and mutual power; humanity’s evolution across three stages of action-logics: dependence, independence & inter-independence; action-logics at the team and organization levels; stories applying Action Inquiry with teams; redistributing leadership roles in the team; the moderating role of the CEO’s action logic; the action-logics of coaches; the role of conflict in Action Inquiry; time frames for change and more. Bill shares an interesting tip involving coaching with your eyes closed.

Specific resources mentioned in the episode include: Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership; www.actioninquiryleadership.com; 3 day Action Inquiry Workshops including the Global Leadership Profile; the 3 day Alchemists' Workparty; the Action Inquiry Fellowship; and the 2005 Harvard Business Review article The Seven Transformations of Leadership.

This episode provides team coaches with yet another priceless opportunity to learn from a legend in the field. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and leading organizational coach Bob Costello—a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Bob offers over 20 years experience in the software industry and has held leadership positions in both software startups and large organizations. He has a background in software development, product management, and engineering. For the last 8 years Bob has been helping organizations, both at the team and leadership levels, to make the transition to agile. Bob excels at helping organizations achieve both their business and organizational goals of an agile change program, with leadership coaching, team coaching and change management. He has a rich background of experience with IBM Design Studio, BlueCollar Objects, Akkolade Consulting, Valtech, ACS, CGI-AMS, BEA Systems, Deloitte, Next Software and more.

In this episode Bob shares his journey over the last 20 years rising up through the ranks in the software development industry to becoming an agile leadership and team coach. Themes covered in the podcast include: working at NEXT Software with Steve Jobs; The Agile Manifesto; the changing operating context that catalyzed the agile movement; agile principles and practices; coaching agile mindsets vs. process; “being” vs. “doing” agile; using situational leadership for coaching agile leaders and teams; shared leadership in agile teams; the 4 SCRUM ceremonies; managing your role as an agile team coach; team maturity and development; agile teams as learning teams and more. Bob also shares some great stories coaching agile teams as well as recommendations on books and team coach training programs that focus on agile.

All team coaches including both generalist practitioners as well as specialists in coaching agile teams will find Bob’s insights and lessons learned well worth the listen. This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s guest and early pioneer in the team coaching field—Professor David Clutterbuck—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Professor David Clutterbuck is Practice Lead at David Clutterbuck Partnership, Special Ambassador for the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Founder of Coaching and Mentoring International, Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam, Oxford Brookes and York St. John Universities and an Adjunct Faculty at Ashridge Coaching MBA. He is also the author of 65 books and countless articles, white papers and blog posts. David is the author of the team coaching classic “Coaching the Team At Work”—an essential read for all team coaches. He is a thought leader in the coaching world and a leading trainer and supervisor of coaches and team coaches.

In this episode of the podcast, David shares his journey into team coaching. Themes explored on the show include: his book “Coaching The Team At Work;” working with teams across the full organizational hierarchy; multiple types of teams (leadership teams, cabin crew teams, stable teams, project teams, learning teams, evolutionary teams and more); knowledge management in teams; working with history in teams; coaching as a link between the inner context and the outer context; getting quick wins; the dangers of focusing too much on dysfunction; goals in team coaching; contracting and re-contracting in team coaching; three core focal areas in team coaching (performance, learning, relationships/behavior); focusing on opportunities vs. problems; performance vs. learning orientations; self-coaching in teams; individual vs. team level learning; coaching cultures in teams; learning plans in teams; peer coaching within teams; the importance of having skills in “being coached;” 9 signs when you shouldn’t coach a team; the current lack of team coach supervision; four developmental mindsets of coaches (model-based à process-based à philosophy/discipline-based à systemic/eclectic-based); powerful questions in team coaching; balancing bringing calm to teams while also generating constructive conflict; three practical tips for coaching teams – 1) how to manage extroverts vs. introverts in teams, 2) how to manage resistance to you as the team coach, 3) a creative way to address interpersonal conflict in teams; David’s 3-day “From One-to-One Coach to Team Coach” training program; David’s perspectives on the evolution of team coaching and more.

This is yet another podcast with a towering figure in the team coaching arena that is chock full of “value bombs” and an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and pioneering figure in the field of team and systems coaching--Marita Fridjhon--for this episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Marita Fridjhon is CEO and Co-Founder of CRR Global, Inc.--an ICF accredited coach training school--and the Creator of the Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) Program. Her primary focus in coaching is on systemic change, leveraging diversity, creative communication, deep democracy in conflict management and the development of learning organizations.

Marita was a guest on the TCZ podcast last year in episode #020. The show was titled: "The Dreaming Nature of Systems: How Team, Executive & Business Coaches Can Work with What's Emerging." Marita is now back a year later to share an overview of her recently published book: "Creating Intelligent Teams: Leading with Relationship Systems Intelligence" which she co-authored with Anne Rod. Themes explored in the episode include: Why we need intelligent teams; the 5 principles of intelligent teams; the distributed nature of leadership in teams and systems; competencies of intelligent teams; the 3 phase approach to help teams discover and work with their intelligence; culturally intelligent teams; and more. Marita also provides listeners with two free resources available on the CRR Global website: 1) a benchmarking tool for creating coaching cultures in organizations; and 2) a white paper on the 5 principles and Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI).

This episode provides listeners with a taste of the insights, tips and tools that await them in this "must-read" book on team coaching! Enjoy!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach Dr. Doug MacKie for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. MacKie is a Director, a business psychologist and an executive coach at CSA Consulting in Brisbane Australia. He specializes in the strength-based assessment and development of executive and leadership capability within top 100 companies both in the UK, Asia and Australia. Doug completed the largest controlled trial to date on the effects of strength-based executive coaching on transformational leadership behavior. He recently published a book on Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organisations (2016).

In this episode, Doug shares his early career as a practicing clinical psychologist and his experiences working on clinical teams. He then discusses his transition into organizational psychology and his mission to bring rigor to the research underlying the coaching field. Themes explored in the podcast include: strengths-based approach to leadership and team coaching; positive psychology; the importance of evidenced-based practice in coaching; strengths-based research controlled trial findings; the importance of aligning with team leaders; using the MLQ 360 with leaders and teams; how to bring a strengths-based approach into team coaching; how team coaching complements and adds to team facilitation and other forms of team intervention and more. Doug also shares some great stories from his practice coaching leaders and teams around the world including working with a team in Mongolia.

This is an episode that is sure to both inspire as well as to educate team coaches. You will not want to miss the powerful insights, lessons learned and practical tips that Dr. MacKie provides!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's show guests and leading organizational coaches--Yosh Beier and Yael Sivi--for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Yosh Beier and Yael Sivi are Co-Founders at Collaborative Coaching--a leadership and team coaching firm based in New York City. Yosh Beier is an executive coach and organizational effectiveness consultant who coaches leaders and teams to improve alignment and strategic executions while moving past human issues that interfere with individual and organizational success. Yael Sivi is an organization development consultant and executive coach who supports leaders and organizations create collaborative and engaging work environments. She has expertise in emotional intelligence, team collaboration and leadership development for emerging leaders. She also regularly speaks publicly about integrating generational differences and team collaboration.

In this episode of the podcast Yosh and Yael share their respective journeys into coaching and team coaching and also provide an overview of Collaborative Coaching--a firm they co-founded that focuses on helping organizations create collaborative advantage. Themes explored on the podcast include: why there are so few high performing teams; the role of collaboration, conflict and culture in teams and team coaching; the role of psychological safety, vulnerability and emotional intelligence of teams; force field analysis in needs assessment; structuring team coaching engagements; the role of the team leader in team coaching and more. They also share a number of insightful stories and lessons learned coaching teams from their practice.

This is an episode that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! For episode show notes go to: http://www.teamcoachingzone.com/yoshbeieryaelsivi

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach--Dr. Faith Fuller--for this episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Faith Fuller, PhD is Co-Owner and President of CRR Global and The Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) program. CRR Global is an ICF accredited coach training school. She is an experienced Psychologist, Coach and Trainer with 15+ years experience working with organizations, couples and communities. Faith takes a systems approach to coaching.

In this episode of the podcast Faith shares her journey as a psychologist into the field of coaching and into working with systems at the individual, pair and collective levels. Themes explored in the podcast include: coaching with a system's lens; 3 levels of system; the 3rd entity; bringing the system into the coaching; the role of conflict in creating organizational and culture change; an overview of the 5 course ORSC series; sustaining change through coaching systems over time; some insights about working with systems coaching across cultures and more. Faith also shares two great stories: one about a disrupter in a team called "The Beach Master" and another involving scaling systems coaching in a county government.

This podcast is a wonderful opportunity for team and systems coaches to learn from one of the pioneers in the field and is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's interview guest Dr. Trexler Proffitt for this special episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Trexler Proffitt, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Organization and Management at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta Georgia. He is also the CEO of Team Diagnostics, LLC.--the provider of The Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS), a scientifically validated and reliable instrument that assesses teams on 6 essential conditions that drive effectiveness. Dr. Proffitt holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, a M.S. from Northwestern University and a B.A from Yale University. He is a passionate and innovative teacher with a range of experiences in: strategic management, organization behavior, negotiation, social responsibility, and entrepreneurship. He is grounded in rigorous academic training while focused on fostering socially responsible leadership and entrepreneurial thinking. He also values being a team player and is comitted to teaching a variety of courses and meeting students where they are in their learning path.

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Proffitt provides an overview of the origins of The Team Diagnostic Survey at Harvard University with the late Dr. Richard Hackman as well as a team of researchers including among others Dr. Ruth Wageman. He shares insights into the academic as well as applied purposes of the instrument. Trexler walks listeners through two sets of factors that comprise the model and instrument. The first set--The Essentials--looks at 1) Real Team, 2) Compelling Direction, and 3) Right People. The second set--The Enablers--looks at 4) Sound Structure, 5) Supportive Context, and 6) Expert Coaching. Throughout the episode Trexler provides rich examples that provide context to the instrument and how it can be used to help teams increase their effectiveness and performance.

The episode provides listeners with an excellent overview of the essential factors that drive team effectiveness and also with a tool that may be an essential addition to every team coaches toolkit!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's show guest and pioneering innovator, consultant and coach- Barry Jentz--on this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Barry is an Owner and Partner at Learning & Leadership, Inc., and an innovator, author and practitioner in the area of leadership, team and organizational intervention. His career spans more than 40 years. Barry holds a BA in English from Kenyon College and a MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Barry's experience spans a range of industries and sectors including: newspaper publishing, media, finance, nuclear power, architectural design, construction, real estate development, international management consulting, engineering, and high tech start ups; as well as private schools and universities, community colleges, town governments, state education organizations, school boards/committees, public school professional organizations, non-profits, law firms, and doctors associations. He is the author of "Talk Sense: Communicating to Lead and Learn," of "The EntryPlan Approach: How to Start a Leadership Position Successfully," and "Leadership and Learning: Personal Change in a Professional Setting." He has also pioneered a number of consulting and coaching methodologies.

In this episode of the podcast, Barry shares highlights from his 40 year career. Themes explored in the interview include: getting counseling as a prerequisite for consultants and coaches; Barry's experience at NTL; the role of discrepancies and Barry's video feedback model for coaching leaders and teams; psychological safety; the role of infrastructure in teaming; the Predict, Plan and Preclude framework; The PlayBook Offsite methodology; the Stop Start Continue team feedback model, using the MBTI and more. Barry also shares some great stories coaching leaders and teams in the education, nuclear power, and high rise construction industries.

This is yet another wonderful opportunity for team coaches to learn from another legend in the field. Barry drops a lot of value bombs in this episode and it is surely one you will not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach Andrew Sillitoe for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Andrew Sillitoe is a Business Psychologist, Speaker and Author of "Managing the Mist: How to Develop Winning Mind-sets and Create High Performance Teams." He is the owner of www.AndrewSillitoe.com and of Strategic Team Coaching Ltd, a company that is passionate about enhancing leadership, creating high- performance teams and developing winning mind-sets. Andrew is an experienced executive coach and business consultant. He studied an MSc in ‘Management Consulting and Organisational Change’ at Birkbeck University and draws upon his strong commercial experience to help organisations, teams and individuals realise their potential and deliver better results. A talented athlete, Andrew played 77 games in 11 World Championships for Great Britain Inline Hockey Team and competed professionally representing Vancouver, California and Colorado. In 2011 Andrew coached Great Britain to win a Division One gold medal, achieving promotion into the top eight countries at the IIHF 2012 World Championships for the first time.

In this episode of the podcast, Andrew shares his journey as a child growing up playing inline hockey to becoming a professional inline hockey player and coach and then into establishing his own career as a business psychologist and team coach. Themes explored in the podcast include: lessons learned from being a player on high performing sports teams; coaching sports teams; transitioning from coaching sports teams to business teams; Andrew's 5 part "Is Your House In Order" high performance teams and team coaching framework; Andrew's approach to coaching teams and sustaining change; his book "Managing the Mist: How to Develop Winning Mind-sets and Create High Performance Teams;" translating team coaching terminology into a language that real-world teams can access; and more. He also shares some stories of coaching business teams around the world.

This is a yet another inspiring story of an exceptional individual who found his way into team coaching and the first former athlete featured on the podcast as well. Andrew drops multiple "value bombs" for the listeners in this episode and this is surely an hour that listeners will not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach--Mazher Ahmad--for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Mazher Ahmad is a Principal at Philosophy IB where he oversees the firm's Human Capital Consulting Practice area and where he is also actively involved in the Leadership and Team Practice area. Mazher has in-depth experience as an Executive and Team Development coach, and has worked with leaders at all levels, across a variety of functions and industries. Prior to joining Philosophy IB, Mazher was the Chief People Office for the KIPP Charter Schools, the largest network of public charter schools in the nation, and also served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet, where he oversaw a number of strategic human capital initiatives. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

In this episode, Mazher shares insights on Philosophy IB's approach to scaling internal team coaching. Specific themes explored include: the driving need for team coaching in business; the importance of understanding the fundamentals of teams; developing core coaching skills; the use of diagnostic instruments in team coaching; designing a team coaching training curriculum; catalyzing an internal team coaching culture and more. Mazher shares a number of insights and lessons learned from a recent client engagement involving training more than 30+ internal team coaches.

This is an episode that both new as well as experienced team coaches will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's show guest and leading organizational coach Allison Crumpler--the Associate Director of Learning and Leadership Development at Novella Clinical. Allison provides executive, management and team coaching with an emphasis on functional and cross-functional collaboration to achieve ultimate team, project and process optimization. Allison is also responsible for the development and deployment of leadership training programs and the oversight of the clinical technology training group.

In this episode of the podcast Allison shares her journey beginning with a 15 year career for the YMCA where she rose to becoming the Associate Branch Executive Director and where she developed a passion for coaching and leadership learning and development. She then moved over to Novella Clinical and over the past two and half years has become an internal team coach and has now coached a dozen teams. As part of her journey she pursued formal training as a coach through the TeamAdvantage team coaching program as well as through the Healthcare Coaching Institute in Raleigh North Carolina. Themes explored in the podcast include: the journey to becoming a team coach; the Team Advantage team coaching process; coaching team leaders; overcoming roadblocks and setbacks in team coaching; fostering an organizational culture of team coaching and more.

Allison is an inspiring example for team coaches looking to make the leap into team coaching. And her story also highlights the value for companies of investing in the development of internal team coaches and developing a teaming culture. This is an episode that all team coaches will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's show guests--leading organizational coaches William Adams and Roma Gaster of Full Circle Group and The Leadership Circle. William Adams is the CEO of Full Circle Group and The Leadership Circle and has more than 30 years of experience focusing on transformational change, large systems change, leadership and teamwork as well as youth leadership. Roma Gaster is a Director and Partner at Full Circle Group and The Leadership Circle and also brings more than 30 years of experience working on the human side of business alongside their strategic context in order to generate results beyond expectations.

In this episode of the podcast, Bill and Roma share insights about coaching at the individual, team and systems levels. They explore their approach to "collective leadership" which they have been helping organizations capitalize on for 20 years. They also explore the developmental consciousness of leaders, teams and full organizational systems. Additional themes and resources explored in the podcast include: organizations as creating the greatest laboratory and environments to develop people; stories and lessons learned working with organizations around the globe; the Leadership Circle Profile; the recently published book "Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results;" as well as information about their certification training programs and more.

This is an episode full of wisdom and value that both new and experienced team coaches will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach Tara Nolan for this week's episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Tara Nolan is the Founder and Managing Director of Lime Trees Road Executive Coaching. She is also a Facilitator, Executive and Team Coach. Lime Trees Road works alongside companies, teams and individuals to identify the negative behaviors that frustrate organizational performance and personal fulfillment. Then it goes about changing them. It’s an approach that works, and its growing list of global clients includes: Microsoft, Deloitte, Zurich Financial Services, ICON, Johnson & Johnson, and Ericsson. In this episode of the podcast, Tara shares her journey from investment banking into executive recruitment and then into executive and team coaching. She discusses the influence of a number of coach training programs and certifications that she has pursued including: Ontological Coaching, Gestalt Coaching and Systemic Team Coaching. Themes covered in the podcast include: Tara's "ADD VALUE" team coaching model; the leader as coach; coaching the team as a whole, the team leader and individual team members; coaching multiple "learning teams" within and across organizations as well as agile teams; the Team Diagnostic Survey and more. Tara also shares a number of stories from her own team coaching practice as well as provides recommendations on a number of essential books and resources for team coaches. This is an exciting episode loaded with insights that every team coach will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach Carissa Bub for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Carissa is a successful leadership and organizational coach, former journalist and entrepreneur with over 15 years's global experience. She helps clients to co-create future fit organizations increasing both social and business value. As a former broadcast journalist (BBC) turned executive coach, her trusted reputation is built on challenging senior management, board directors, global teams and next generation leaders to proactively drive change and consistently deliver high performance results. Carissa is on the Global Coaching Faculty at BlackRock, is a member of the International Coaching Federation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and the Royal Society of Arts. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and has a number of additional qualifications including: Organizational Relationship Systems Coach (ORSCC), Master NLP Practitioner, Psychometric Assessor, Team Diagnostic Consultant, Post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, Diploma in Performance Coaching, and a Diploma in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology. Carissa has run her own leadership development business since 2002, and recently launched her latest endeavor--a new company called Intellegra.

In this episode of the podcast, Carissa shares her journey from studying child psychotherapy to entering the world of broadcast journalism to conducting media training for companies and executives and then into executive and team coaching. Themes explored in the podcast include: the role of story and emotion in teams and team coaching; the role of relationships; helping teams give voice to the emotion in the room; coaching for hygiene in teams vs. performance and systemic change; helping teams shift from being management teams to leadership teams; contracting in team coaching; building teams of teams across silos; walking away from team coaching when you aren't a good fit; slowing down to focus on what really matters; reinventing organizations; life long learning and more. She also shares stories and tips from her own team coaching practice.

Carissa's insights about the power of story and emotion in teams will leave every team coach wanting to learn more about how to leverage these two powerful aspects in their own coaching practices.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s special guest Dr. Ruth Wageman--a leading scholar and practitioner in the area of team coaching. Dr. Wageman is Director at ReThink Health and an Associate in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She specializes in the field of Organizational Behavior, studying and teaching the design and leadership of task performing teams. Professor Wageman studies the conditions under which teams are able to accomplish collective purposes and to grow in capability over time. Her work with teams places a particular emphasis on self-governing teams, especially those with complex problem-solving and social change purposes. Her current work focuses on enabling the development of collaborative leadership capacity, especially that of multi-stakeholder groups working to transform regional health systems. With Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman, she designed the Team Diagnostic Survey, an instrument that assesses the effectiveness of teams and that is used both for scholarly research and to guide effective leadership of teams. Selected publications include: “Creating Great Leadership Teams for Complex Problems,” “The changing ecology of teams: New directions for teams research,” with Heidi Gardner and Mark Mortensen, “Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great,” with Debra A. Nunes, James Burruss, and Richard Hackman; “Asking the Right Questions about Leadership,” American Psychologist; “As the twig is bent: The effects of shared values on emergent interdependence in teams” with Fred Gordon, Organization Science; “A theory of team coaching,” with Hackman, Academy of Management Review; “Team Diagnostic Survey: Development of an Instrument,” with Hackman and Lehman, Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Wageman received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Joint Doctoral Program in Organizational Behavior in 1993. She received her BA in Psychology from Columbia University in 1987, and returned there to join the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, making her the first female alum of Columbia College to join Columbia’s faculty. She joined the faculty of the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 2000, and returned to Harvard in 2006. She joined ReThink Health, an Initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, as its Director of Research in 2009.

In this episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast, Dr. Wageman shares her journey into becoming a leading scholar in the area of teams and team coaching. She also provides an overview of a number of her books and articles that will be of particular interest to team coaches. Additional themes covered in the episode include: the key factors that contribute to team effectiveness; the role of compelling purpose, task requirements, and structure in teams; the different types and timing of team coaching interventions; the leader as team coach vs. using external team coaches; the Team Diagnostic Survey; leadership teams; multi-stakeholder teams, stewardship teams and more. She also shares some reflections on her mentor and colleague the late Dr. Richard Hackman. Finally Dr. Wageman discusses her recent work creating systemic change in regional healthcare systems through her work as a Director at ReThink Health--an initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation.

This episode is a priceless opportunity for team coaches to learn from a world-class scholar, a leading researcher and an early pioneer in the field of team coaching. It is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and pioneering organizational coach Dr. Dorothy Siminovitch for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dorothy Siminovitch, PhD, MCC is a Master Certified Coach, the founder of Gestalt Coaching Works, LLC and an international coach, consultant, group facilitator, presenter/speaker, and author. She is founder, co-owner, faculty, and Director of Training for the Gestalt Coaching Programs in Istanbul and in Toronto, both ICF-ACTP coach training programs. She is also co‐founder of the Gestalt Center for Coaching, which delivers ICF-accredited coach training workshops and extended programs internationally.

In this episode of the podcast Dorothy shares her journey into Gestalt-based coaching which she pioneered 20 years ago. Themes explored in the podcast include: the shift in human collective consciousness required to adapt to a VUCA world; an introduction to Gestalt approaches to intervention; key Gestalt principles and practices and how they inform coaching individuals and teams; levels of system; the influences of Appreciative Inquiry, Adult Learning Theory and Intentional Change on Gestalt-based practice; as well as a range of tips and techniques for applying Gestalt thinking to team coaching. Dorothy also shares a story from her team coaching practice and also introduces listeners to her latest area of innovation: Awareness IQ. Finally she shares information about her coach training programs in Toronto and Istanbul.

Dr. Siminovitch is truly one of the pioneers and leading figures in the field of Gestalt-based coaching. Every team coach will surely want to dive into the depths of Dorothy's experience and wisdom in this episode!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guests and leading organizational coaches Richard Boston and Dean Taylor for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Richard and Dean are with LeaderSpace—a consultancy specializing in leadership and team performance based in the United Kingdom and in Australia. Richard is Managing Director at LeaderSpace and a Chartered Business Psychologist with a thorough knowledge of leadership, team performance, and psychology. He’s the author of ‘ARC Leadership’, arguing that leaders need to be Authentic, Responsible and Courageous if they and their organisations are to move from surviving to thriving in a complex world. Dean is a Chartered Business Psychologist with a special interest in emotional intelligence and positive psychology. He is highly skilled in leadership assessment and development, emotional intelligence, team and organizational development and psychometrics.

In this episode of the podcast Richard and Dean share a range of insights and stories from their team coaching practices. Themes covered in the episode include: the LeaderSpace 5 step team coaching process (1. Engage, 2. Assess, 3. Align, 4. Progress, 5. Review); co-team coaching; future trends in team coaching including: habit formation in teams, where team coaches can really make a difference, bringing multiple teams together to accelerate change, catapulting team coaching across organizations and within industries to address systemic challenges, and more. Richard and Dean also share a number of compelling stories involving teams in the management consulting, charity and public sectors.

This episode is brimming over with a wealth of practical tips, techniques and resources that will help every team coach take their coaching practice to the next level. It's an episode you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's special guest, George Johnson, for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. George is the CEO of Team Coaching International—a global professional services firm with a clear purpose: to help our clients create and maintain high-performing teams and organizations. George is a serial entrepreneur who has worked with over 150 clients. He was the co-founder of Internet Broadcasting, worked with United Health Care and Techies.com and also founded three non-profits and two consulting practices. George was the former president of the Minnesota Coaches Association and has been coaching since 2001 as well as conducting strategic planning for over 30 years.

In this special episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast, George shares insights on how to build a team coaching practice and business. Themes explored in the episode include: the emergence of the field of team coaching; the business case for team coaching; research findings conducted with more than 100 team coaches on the state of their team coaching practices; pricing of team engagements; generating executive coaching clients through team coaching engagements and vice versa; developing a niche team coaching business and more. George also shares insights and lessons learned from Team Coaching International’s experience coaching teams as well as training team coaches. An overview of Team Coaching International’s range of current product and service offerings is also provided.

This is an episode specially tailored for team coaches who are looking to gain insights into how to establish a successful as well as sustainable team coaching business!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach, Jim Tamm, for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Jim Tamm is the President of RC Group, LLC with training partners in 18 countries. He specializes in building cultures of collaboration within organizations and training other consultants and trainers how to teach collaborative skills. Fast Company Magazine described Jim Tamm as an “Ace Relationship Builder”. For most of his career he was a Senior Administrative Law Judge for the State of California with jurisdiction over workplace disputes. He is currently on the faculty of the International Management Program of the Stockholm School of Economics, the Management Education Program at NASA, and the Leadership Academy of the University of California. His book, Radical Collaboration, has been on Amazon’s top seller lists for organizational psychology and collaboration books for much of the past nine years.

In this episode of the podcast Jim shares a range of insights into building cultures of collaboration in teams and organizations. Among the topics covered include: the Radical Collaboration approach; 5 skills for effective collaboration (Collaborative Intention, Truthfulness, Self-Accountability, Self-Awareness, Negotiation and Problem-Solving); red zone and green zone modes; the crucial role of defensiveness, stories of hits and misses working with teams and organizations; the factors that lead to culture change and more.

This is a rich episode with a range of practical tips, techniques and resources that will help every team coach take their coaching practice to the next level. It's an episode you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading organizational coach, Edgar Papke, for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Edgar Papke is globally recognized as an award-winning executive coach, author, and speaker. He is a student and teacher of leadership, conflict, and the human art of business and has been recognized for his innovative approaches to leadership and business. He has delivered over 2500 keynote speeches, lectures, and workshops to audiences worldwide and consistently ranks among CEOs and executives as one of the field’s most impactful and influential speakers. Along with being the author of "The Elephant In The Boardroom," his newest book that explores how leaders use and manage conflict to achieve greater levels of success, he is also the author of "True Alignment®," his book that provides a unique and preeminent framework for linking customer motivation and experience with brand, culture, and leadership. Edgar holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Business, a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology, and a Culinary Arts Degree.

In this episode of the podcast Edgar shares insights from his book "True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results" and how the work of an organizational coach is fundamentally about helping leaders, teams and organizations get alignment. He discusses the concept of the Business Code and how alignment comes through 4 key elements: The Customer, The Brand Intention, Culture and Leadership. Themes delved into on a deeper level in the podcast include: the human art of business, leadership, the central role of conflict in organizational change processes; coaching a team's leader, individual team members as well as the full team as a whole; the management of complexity and more. Edgar also shares insights, stories and practical tips on coaching teams from his own practice as well as his work building a global community of organizational development consultants and coaches who are versed in the True Alignment® methodology.

Team coaches are sure to find Edgar's book, "True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results," not only an essential read on the art of business but a helpful framework to support team coaching interventions. This is an episode that you surely will not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach, Dr. Terrence Maltbia, for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Maltbia is the Faculty Director of the Columbia Coaching Certification Program and an Associate Professor of Practice for Adult Learning & Leadership Programs in the Department of Organization & Leadership at Teachers College Columbia University. Since joining Teachers College in 2006, he has become internationally recognized as a scholar practitioner in the areas of strategic learning; executive and organizational coaching; global leadership development; and emotional, social and cultural intelligence.

In this special two part episode, Terry shares reflections and insights on the interdisciplinary nature of team leadership coaching as well as on the emerging frontiers of the coaching field. In Part 1 - Episode #032, Dr. Maltbia shares reflections on establishing the Columbia Coaching Certification Program, on Theories of Change, on the Interplay between Executive and Team Coaching, and on his approach to Team Leadership Coaching. In Part 2 - Episode #033, Terry shares a Challenging Team Coaching Case from his coaching practice involving a sales team and its leader, shares a range of penetrating insights on Team Coaching Competencies, shares his thoughts on Process Consultation, and a visionary perspective on the Future of Executive & Team Coaching.

This is a very rich episode and both executive and team coaches will discover a wealth of practical insights, lessons learned and recommended resources for taking their coaching practices to the next level. Terry's visionary insights about the coming of age of the coaching field and the new frontiers that are emerging are truly thought provoking. These are two essential episodes that you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach, Dr. Terrence Maltbia, for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Maltbia is the Faculty Director of the Columbia Coaching Certification Program and an Associate Professor of Practice for Adult Learning & Leadership Programs in the Department of Organization & Leadership at Teachers College Columbia University. Since joining Teachers College in 2006, he has become internationally recognized as a scholar practitioner in the areas of strategic learning; executive and organizational coaching; global leadership development; and emotional, social and cultural intelligence.

In this special two part episode, Terry shares reflections and insights on the interdisciplinary nature of team leadership coaching as well as on the emerging frontiers of the coaching field. In Part 1 - Episode #032, Dr. Maltbia shares reflections on establishing the Columbia Coaching Certification Program, on Theories of Change, on the Interplay between Executive and Team Coaching, and on his approach to Team Leadership Coaching. In Part 2 - Episode #033, Terry shares a Challenging Team Coaching Case from his coaching practice involving a sales team and its leader, shares a range of penetrating insights on Team Coaching Competencies, shares his thoughts on Process Consultation, and a visionary perspective on the Future of Executive & Team Coaching.

This is a very rich episode and both executive and team coaches will discover a wealth of practical insights, lessons learned and recommended resources for taking their coaching practices to the next level. Terry's visionary insights about the coming of age of the coaching field and the new frontiers that are emerging are truly thought provoking. These are two essential episodes that you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach, Dr. Mary Lippitt, for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Lippitt is an award-winning author and founder of Enterprise Management Limited. Known for her pioneering work linking leadership with organizational results, Dr. Lippitt is internationally recognized as a leader in the execution of change and strategy implementation for over twenty-five years. Her specialities include working with leaders to develop effective leadership practices, engage others, align strategy, improve execution planning, and enhance team power to achieve desired results. Dr. Lippitt is the creator of The Leadership Spectrum Profile (LSP)--an instrument that examines mindsets or a leader's choice of what is most important to achieve at a given point in time. She is also the author of the book (2014) "Brilliant or Blunder: 6 Ways Leaders Navigate Uncertainty, Opportunity and Complexity.

In the episode, Mary shares her fascinating journey into the fields of leadership, team and organizational intervention beginning as the daughter and niece of two legends in the field of organizational psychology: Gordon and Ronald Lippitt. She describes the impact of spending her summers as a child and teenager in Bethel Maine at NTL (National Training Laboratories) where she gained first-hand experience with group dynamics, T-Groups and human relations conferences. She then shares her journey working as a leader in both the public as well as private sectors including her role in taking over her father and uncle's firm Organization Renewal, Inc. which she later re-named Enterprise Management Ltd.

In the episode, Mary also introduces listeners to The Leadership Spectrum Profile (LSP) and explores 6 mindsets that help leaders and teams understand the organizational context both internally and externally. The LSP aids with strategic thinking and decision-making. The 6 mindsets (Inventing, Catalyzing, Developing, Performing, Protecting, Challenging) are linked up with the organization's lifecycle and provide leadership and team coaches with a rapid approach to helping leaders and teams accelerate their performance and effectiveness. Mary shares two powerful stories from her practice using the LSP that are full of great tips and lessons learned. In addition she discusses her latest book that also covers the 6 mindsets: "Brilliant or Blunder: 6 Ways Leaders Navigate Uncertainty, Opportunity and Complexity."

Team coaches will surely find this episode inspiring and a golden opportunity to learn from a distinguished thought leader in the field. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach, Alex Durand, for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Alex Durand is an Executive and Team Coach, the Founder of Frable Consulting and a Thinker and Writer. Frable Consulting provides executive and team coaching services to individuals of all generations and centers on The Frable - 3 Phase Coaching Method that leads to sustainable long-term change. In this compelling episode, Alex shares his journey from completing his undergraduate degree at George Washington University, to landing a "dream job" as an international consultant with one of the Big 5 Consulting firms, to the personal journey and struggles that led him to founding his own firm--Frable Consulting in 2014.

Alex shares his thought-provoking perspectives on a number of themes including: inter-generational thinking; the current and future of states of coaching; on challenging our current mindsets about coaching; The Frable 3 Phase Executive Coaching Model - 1) Vision & Strengths, 2) Values, 3) Action Plan; on being a Millennial executive and team coach; on the nature of change and coaching; on team coaching as a vehicle for engagement, leadership development, developing a teaming culture, organizational learning, organizational fitness and more.

Alex's perspectives are sure to leave every listener inspired as well as thinking more broadly about their executive and team coaching practice and how they can take their game to the next level. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Geetu Bharwaney—a thought leader in the areas of Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Resilience and Team Emotional Intelligence—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Geetu is the Founding Director of Ei World Limited, the Author of “Emotional Resilience: Know What It Takes to Be Agile, Adaptable and Always at Your Best," and an executive coach, team coach, mentor and consultant. She has more than 25 years of experience helping organizations develop high performance. Ei World Limited is a company based in the UK at the forefront of innovative development programs based on Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Resilience. Geetu and her team support talent management, team coaching and leadership development of individuals and teams in the world’s most prestigious companies across 37 countries. She has been using the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey since 2012 and equips other team coaches in its effective use.

In this thought-provoking episode of the podcast, Geetu shares her insights on a number of themes including: team emotions and team emotional intelligence; the role of emotion in high performance teams; 4 common challenges that arise in teams that reveal underlying emotional dynamics; Geetu’s 5 element approach to coaching teams using a team emotional intelligence framework; The Team Emotional Intelligence Survey; her recently published book on “Emotional Resilience: Know What It Takes to Be Agile, Adaptable and Always at Your Best;” and differentiating emotional resilience from emotional intelligence. Geetu also shares a number of compelling stories, insights and lessons learned from her practice coaching teams.

This is a rich episode brimming over with value and lessons learned that both new as well as experienced team coaches will want to listen to multiple times!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Ethan Schutz for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Ethan Schutz is the President and CEO of The Schutz Company--a consulting and publishing company and provider of the LIFO Method and The Human Element approach. Ethan promotes, encourages and directs the use, development and expansion of these bodies of work in the US. Globally, he nurtures and grows the LIFO and Human Element communities, made up of practitioners and partners in over 30 countries. He delivers training, coaching and in-depth practitioner training progams to support consultant excellence and creativity. Ethan worked with his father Will Schutz, PhD, creator of FIRO theory and The Human Element--a body of work designed to improve individual, team and organizational effectiveness through self-awareness and direct, honest communication.

Prior to assuming the President and CEO role of The Schutz Company in 2009, Ethan worked as a manager of training and development for Reuters; as an organizational development consultant for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and as the President of the Business Consultants Network. Ethan also worked as an architect for a decade where he discovered his true passion around helping people work more effectively together. Ethan holds a Master of Arts Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University as well as a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture from The University of California at Berkeley.

In this episode of the podcast Ethan introduces listeners to the FIRO-B and Human Element body of work pioneered by his father Will Schutz PhD and now extended by both himself as well as a global community of practitioiners. The use of this well-tested and applied body of work is illuminated through stories of coaching teams. Ethan shares two stories from his practice--one a non-profit leadership team and another involving an action learning-based leadership development program in a hospital both grounded in The Human Element methodology. Some themes covered in the interview include: inclusion, control and openness in human relationships; compatibility in teams; rigidity and defensiveness in human interactions; decision-making in teams; process consultation; utilizing team coaching to embed training outcomes into the culture of organizations; becoming a Human Element Practitoner and more.

Team coaches looking for a tested method for helping individuals, teams and organizations become more effective may find The Human Element approach and tools right up their alley!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Dr. Pamela Van Dyke for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast.

Dr. Van Dyke is a Managing Principal at The Van Dyke Resource Group and is a Human Capital Consultant, an Executive Coach, a Team and Group Coach, an Author, a Speaker and a Leading Generation Y Specialist. For more than 25 years Pam has been helping individuals, teams and organizations define and reach their goals. Pam started her career in behavioral healthcare where she was a practicing therapist for 13 years. For the last several years, she has worked at the executive level of organizations in a variety of capacities. Her corporate experience has included financial and insurance services, manufacturing, aerospace, and healthcare. Working for Fortune 500 companies such as Tenet Healthcare, Baylor Healthcare, American Airlines, Bell Helicopter, American International Group (AIG) and Tenet Healthcare, she has held executive level positions in Human Resources, Talent and Leadership Development, Organization Development, Employee Engagement and Quality and Risk Management.

Pam has a passion for helping others connect the dots, whether personally or professionally. Pam’s diverse background in behavioral health, fortune 500 companies and academia, provides her with a unique and rich blend to understand the needs of others and the complex dynamics in which they find themselves. For the past fifteen years Pam has been an Adjunct Instructor at several universities teaching both virtually and on Campus. Currently, she teaches at Southern Methodist University – Cox School of Business located in Dallas, Texas and virtually at Colorado State University-Global Campus. Pam, a life-long learner, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology, a Masters of Arts in Education, a Masters of Arts in Healthcare Management, a Masters of Arts in Human and Organizational Development and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems.

In this episode of the podcast, Pam introduces listeners to the P.E.R.F.O.R.M. team and group coaching model that emerged from her doctoral dissertation work on virtual group and team coaching. The acronym stands for: P - Participant Selection; E - Elements of Group Process; R - Regular Cadence; F - Facilitation Skills; O - Organization and Logistics; R - Results Orientation; M - Medium. These 7 foundational elements provide team and group coaches with a strong platform and a frame of reference for their coaching. Other themes explored in the episode include: the emergence of team and group coaching as bona fide coaching disciplines; differentiating team, group and peer coaching; working in an emergent way as a coach vs. "cookie cutter" approaches; lengths of team coaching engagements as well as frequency; coaching the process vs. coaching the individuals; the need for dialogue among team coaches in order to develop the field and more. Pam also shares two stories from her coaching practice: one involving an executive team and one a newly promoted leaders team. The episode is rich with a balance of theory, research and practical tips and will help new as well as experienced team and group coaches take their coaching game to the next level!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Kati Livingston for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Kati Livingston is a Managing Partner at Creative Management Systems, a consulting firm that helps organizations and teams adapt to changing conditions and re-engineer how they work together. She holds a Master’s in Adult Development and Psychology from Harvard University and is certified in Executive Coaching from Columbia University. Her coaching interest is in partnering with professionals to build effective relationships. Even in a world of increasing globalization and reliance on technology, Kati sees human interaction as a core competency to lead, motivate, connect and build trust with clients and colleagues. She teaches two courses in Harvard Extension School’s Master’s in Management program, titled “Creating and Leading Team Dynamics” and “Leading Through Change.” She also designs and delivers executive education programs for financial advisors on the Harvard campus. Prior to her work in organizational development Kati earned a Master’s in Art History and often brings works of art into business presentations to spark thought and reflection. Kati has been a Big Sister volunteer since 2000 and still regularly sees her Little Sister Felicia, now a 23-yr old college graduate.

In this episode Kati shares insights from her research, teaching and practice in using "metaphor" as a vehicle to foster understanding and transformation in leadership and team coaching. Themes covered in the interview include: metaphors as devices for framing, fostering awareness and facilitating behavior change; techniques for using metaphor in leadership and team coaching; some metaphors that often surface in coaching; resources to further study team coaching and more. Kati also shares two stories from her own coaching practice that illuminate how she leverages metaphor in her work. One is a story from her leadership coaching practice and another from her team coaching practice.

This episode is inspiring and provides both new and experienced team coaches with some super practical tips and techniques that will help them take their team coaching practices to the next level!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and two leading organizational coaches--Nancy Alexander and Ethan Hanabury--for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast.

Nancy Alexander is a Principal at Nancy Alexander Consulting and is an executive coach, facilitator and consultant. Nancy has a distinguished background with experience in marketing, strategic planning and new product and service development with Procter and Gamble and American Express where she specialized in expansion, turnarounds and repositioning. After serving as a Vice President at Bank of America, she became a social innovator and eco-entrepreneur and founded one of the first green companies in Connecticut, inventing a business in a declining, generic industry and achieving twice the industry average customer retention rate through eco-friendly products and services, brand differentiation and loyalty, and creative communication. Her work earned national press attention and was featured in Joline Godfrey’s book, Our Wildest Dreams: Women Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good. Nancy holds a BA degree in Sociology, an MBA from Yale and a MA in Women's Studies from Southern Connecticut State University.

Ethan Hanabury is a team leadership expert and executive coach, and was a higher education leader and senior administrator. He is an award-winning executive coach, top management team expert, and executive education pioneer. Ethan brings 28 years of experience and perspective as a senior leader and educator to his coaching practice. As Senior Associate Dean at Columbia Business School, he led the teams that brought #1 rankings to the School’s Executive MBA and Executive Education programs; raised student satisfaction levels to record levels; and fostered a learning community that nourished tens of thousands of young women and men to achieve their professional goals. When he transitioned in 2011, Columbia Business School recognized his legacy by naming one of the graduating student awards in his honor for perpetuity. Previous to his deanship at Columbia, Ethan was a product manager with Unilever and a CPA with Arthur Andersen. Ethan holds an MBA from Columbia University and also is a graduate of Columbia's Coaching Intensive Program.

In this episode, Nancy and Ethan share their perspectives on co-team coaching together and explore a recent engagement with a team in the higher education arena. Themes covered in the episode include: the importance of shared values among co-team coaches; the value of co-team coaching over and above working solo; innovative data feedback strategies in team coaching; building trust in teams; experimentation and innovation in team coaching; techniques for helping teams develop practical action strategies and more.

The episode is chock full of practical tips and best practices that both new and experienced team coaches will find valuable.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach and early pioneer in the field of team coaching, Phillip Sandhal, for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Phil is a Master Certified Coach, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and the Co-Founder of Team Coaching International (TCI). Phil is an internationally recognized consultant, coach, trainer, and author. He was an early pioneer in the field of team coaching and has worked with teams in North America, Europe and Asia that include Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Cisco, Cap Gemini, ING Bank, TransCanada, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Navy.

He is a sought-after speaker on team performance, team leadership, and team trends. He has presented at conferences in Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Australia, and of course the U.S. He is co-author of the leading textbook on coaching: Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives, with more than 100,000 copies in print and in 10 languages. Phil is a former senior faculty member for The Coaches Training Institute and has been training coaches worldwide since 1998. As principal trainer for Team Coaching International, Phil has trained more than 1,000 team coaches from 43 countries. That training also certifies coaches in the use of the Team Diagnostic suite of team and team leader assessment tools. The Team Diagnostic has been used with thousands of teams worldwide and is in 22 languages.

In this episode of the podcast Phil shares his journey from a career in journalism to discovering the field of coaching where he became a senior faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute and where he trained coaches around the world and also co-authored the well-known text on co-active coaching. He then shares the journey into team coaching and to co-founding Team Coaching International in 2004. In the episode Phil shares stories of hits and misses from his own practice coaching teams and also insights from training team coaches. Some themes covered in the episode include: the Team Diagnostic; appreciative inquiry in team coaching; productivity and positivity - two essential dimensions in teams; a 3 phase approach to team coaching; the eclectic mixture of skills a team coach uses during ongoing team coaching sessions; the role of metrics in team coaching; coaching multi-cultural teams; training team coaches and more.

This episode is another opportunity for both new and experienced team coaches to gain lessons learned, tips and wisdom from one of the early pioneers in the field of team coaching. It's surely an episode you will not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Gilbert Brenson-Lazan for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Gilbert is a Social Psychologist and the Founding Parter of Amauta International, LLC.--an organization dedicated to optimizing wisdom, efficacy and resilience with top management teams in the Americas, through the facilitation of meaningful conversations. Professor Lazan has forty years of teaching, facilitation and coaching experience in the Americas and in 13 other countries. He is the author of 34 books and texts, and has presented in over 40 international professional conferences. He was a founding member and President of Global Facilitators Service Corps (GFSC) and is an Honorary Member of the Asociación Latinoamericano de Facilitadores-ALFA. A seventeen-year member of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), he was past International Vice-Chair and received the 1999 IAF Global Stewardship Award, the 2010 IAF Community Outreach Award, and was inducted into the first IAF Facilitators Hall of Fame in 2014.

In this episode Gilbert shares his inspiring journey into team facilitation and coaching that has continued to evolve over a period of 40 years. He shares his perspectives on the role of appreciative inquiry, positive psychology and solution-focused coaching in his approach to team coaching. He draws insights on the role of meaningful conversation and its impact on neuroscience and culture change in organizations, families and communities. Gilbert shares a number of powerful stories of hits and misses coaching teams including a compelling story of a 3-year transformation of a beverage company's leadership culture and the story of supporting a community following a volcanic eruption that resulted in the devastating loss of 26,000 residents of a town.

This episode is overflowing with inspiration as well as practical insights, tips and tools that will help every new and experienced team coach take their practice to the next level!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Krish Iyer for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Krish is the Founder and Chief Catalyst at Qual Aliter Associates and brings more than 25+ years of experience across industries in sales, business development, business strategy, business process consulting, key account management and coaching for leadership and performance. Krish has worked for a number of leading companies including 3M Co., Praxis, Satyam Computers and SAP. Prior to founding Qua Aliter, Krish was the Global Vice President in the Strategic Customer Program for SAP and led a global team supporting SAP's most strategic customers that accounted for 1/3 of the company's $20 billion dollar business. Krish is a graduate of Columbia University's Advanced Coaching Certification program and currently works to deliver comprehensive and transformational engagements for both leaders and teams.

In this episode Krish shares his journey into team coaching building on his extensive experience leading cross-cultural and cross-functional global teams. Krish shares stories coaching teams in the technology and customer relationship management arenas. Some key themes explored in this episode include: team coaching in a VUCA world; learning, innovation and change in teams; design thinking and team coaching; blending the roles of consultant, facilitator, and coach; coaching presence; building leader-coach capacity within teams; appreciative inquiry; focusing on business results; experimentation in team coaching and more.

This episode is overflowing with practical insights, tips and tools that will help every new and experienced team coach take their practice to the next level!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading figure in the area of creative thinking, Dr. Kobus Neethling, for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Neethling is the President of the South African Creativity Foundation and the Creator of the Neethling Brain Instruments (NBI). He is a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the area of creativity thinking and learning. Additionally, he holds six degrees including two master's degrees, a doctoral degree and a post-doctoral degree. Dr. Neethling is the author of many books and articles as well as award-winning television shows and is also the recipient of numerous accolades and awards for his pioneering work in field of creativity studies. Dr. Neethling is a frequent key note speaker and actively consults to corporations, national sporting teams and education groups around the world. Dr. Neethling was asked by the South African transitional government to provide creativity training to the police in order to build better relationships and later was engaged by Nelson Mandela's chief of staff to provide similar training to Mandela's staff. Dr. Neethling has hosted an annual international creativity conference in South Africa every year for the last 21 years. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Neethling shares his early history and journey into the field of creativity studies, to his post-doctoral work with the late Dr. Paul Torrance at the University of Georgia, to inventing the Neethling Brain Instruments, to the establishment of the South African Creativity Foundation and to becoming a leading figure in the field of creative thinking. He also shares insights into how teams, leaders and whole organizations can become more creative, adaptable and high-performing. Dr. Neethling shares numerous stories from his work consulting to teams in a range of sectors including banking, mining, sales, education, sports, government and more. Any team, executive or organizational coach interested in fostering creativity in their own practices will surely not want to miss this episode!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach and early pioneer in the field of relationship systems coaching, Marita Fridjhon, for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Marita is the CEO and Co-Founder of CRR Global, Inc.—an ICF accredited coach training school—and the creator of the Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching(ORSC) program. Her primary focus in coaching is on systemic change, leveraging diversity, creative communication, deep democracy in conflict management and the development of Learning Organizations.

In this episode Marita shares her journey growing up during the Apartheid era in South Africa; to sailing up the Amazon river where she investigated the impact of death and dying on families and communities and where she discovered the concept of the “dreaming nature of human systems;” to becoming a faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute and then to co-founding CRR Global. Some themes explored in the episode include: the dreaming nature and emergence of systems; the 3rd entity; Relationship Systems Intelligence; holonic shifts; the dynamics of coaching systems; becoming a systems coach and more. Throughout the interview, Marita shares stories of success and challenge from her own practice coaching individuals, teams and organizational systems.

This episode provides team, executive and business coaches with powerful insights and practical tips and for how to bring a systemic approach to their coaching practices. This is an episode that all coaches will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach and early pioneer in the field of team coaching, Professor Peter Hawkins, for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Hawkins is a Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, is the Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, the Chairman of Renewal Associates, and a leading consultant, coach, writer and researcher. He is a thought leader in executive coaching, team coaching and board development and is the author of a number of books and papers including, among other works, Leadership Team Coaching (2014) and Leadership Team Coaching in Practice (2014).

In this episode Professor Hawkins shares his journey from working in drama therapy and psychotherapy in mental health organizations, to shifting into organizational development and getting a Ph.D. in organization learning and founding the Bath Consulting Group, to becoming a thought leader and practitioner in the area of systemic team coaching. Themes covered in the episode include: the continuum of team coaching; the 5 disciplines of successful team practice (commissioning, clarifying, co-creating, connecting, core learning) and team coaching; the CID-CLEAR team coaching process; the team leader as coach; becoming a team coach; supervision and training of team coaches; and trends in the field of team coaching. Throughout the interview, Professor Hawkins shares stories of success and challenge from his own practice coaching teams in diverse organizations.

This episode is overflowing with inspiration, practical insights as well as tips and tools that will help every new and experienced team coach take their practice to the next level. For episode show notes and more go to: http://www.teamcoachingzone.com/drpeterhawkins/

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Herb Stevenson for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Herb is the Founder and CEO of the Cleveland Consulting Group, a Board Certified Executive Coach, a Gestalt Certified Coach, and a Certified Professional Coach. He specializes in executive development and coaching, succession planning, whole and large-scale change and diversity management. Herb is also the Founder of Natural Passages, an organization that offers nature-based leadership programs for men. He has spent the last decade reclaiming his Cherokee and Shawnee Indian heritage and provides workshops across the country on indigenous healing practices.

In this episode Herb shares his journey from working in the banking industry, to making a shift into gestalt consulting and coaching, to founding the Cleveland Consulting Group and also to facilitating leadership retreats for men. Specific themes discussed on the show include: the gestalt approach to systems change; 4 levers to improve team effectiveness: roles, responsibilities, communication and authority; constructive conflict in teams; Tuckman’s four stages of team development including accelerating team development across the stages as well as clarifying the leader’s role at each stage; Hackman’s four purposes/types of meetings: informational, decisional, consultation, coordination; team charters; the diagnostic stage of intervention; a number of assessments (The Team Diagnostic, Extraordinary Teams Assessment, MBTI-Form Q, Thomas Kilman Conflict Styles Inventory, FIRO-Business, Influence Styles and the Intercultural Conflict Styles Assessment); prioritization and ROT (return on time); the ripening of receptivity for team coaching in business; virtual team coaching; co-leadership vs. individual leadership; and the relationship of engagement to leadership, team and organizational culture. Throughout the episode Herb shares numerous stories and anecdotes from his experiences coaching teams from a range of industries including banking, oil & gas, insurance and more.

As a bonus to the episode, Herb shares perspectives from his work running nature-based retreats through his company Natural Passages that focuses on creating constructive rites of passage for men.

For detailed Show Notes go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com/HerbStevenson

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Cliff Kayser for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Cliff is a Vice President at Polarity Partnerships, LLC as well as the President and Founder of XPERIENCE, LLC and Kayser Ridge (a retreat center). Cliff holds Masters Degrees in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development, both from American University. He completed his ICF Coaching Certification at The Georgetown Executive Leadership Coaching Program. Cliff has 25 years of experience in organization development consulting, coaching, and leadership training. Prior to joining Polarity Partnerships in 2012 and launching XPERIENCE, LLC in 2007, Cliff was Vice President of Organizational Development and Training for The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) and spent nearly a decade serving The Washington Post newspaper as Senior Organization Development Consultant and The Washington Post Company as Corporate Manager of Human Resources, Training & Web Development. Cliff is a faculty or adjunct faculty member for: The American University’s Master’s in Organization Development and KEY Executive Certificate Program; The Advanced Coaching Certificate program at George Mason Center for the Advancement of Well-being; The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland; The Federal Executive Institute under the Office of Personnel Management; and The 2-year Mastery Program in Polarity Thinking. In this episode of the podcast, Cliff introduces listeners to "polarity thinking" and illustrates how this powerful framework can be used to drive leadership and team coaching. Themes explored in the episode include: an introduction to polarity thinking; polarity maps; solvable problems vs. polarities; the 5-step process to leveraging polarities (Seeing, Mapping, Assessing, Learning, Leveraging); using polarities to go from "Good to Great" and more. Cliff shares examples from his own practice of helping clients leverage polarities to drive leadership, team and organizational development. Leadership and team coaches will find the polarity framework and tools a powerful addition to their coaching toolkit!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Jennifer Porter for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Jennifer is the Managing Partner and a specialist in leadership and team coaching at the Boda Group. The Boda Group helps leaders and teams assess their capabilities, clarify how they want to engage and lead, strengthen critical relationships and skills, and operate more effectively. Prior to founding The Boda Group in 2011, Jennifer was a COO of Circles and Sentient Jet, a leadership coach with Spencer & Bean, a Vice President of Einstein Bagels and a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Jennifer holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, and has pursued training and certification in: Interpersonal Dynamics at Stanford; Enneagram; The Coaches Training Institute, CPCC; International Coach Federation, PCC; Team Diagnostic Assessment; Harvard University/Kegan and Lahey: Immunity to Change; CRR Global, Advanced Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC). In this episode Jennifer shares her experience making the transition from a c-suite executive to a leadership and team coach as well as stories of hits and misses from her own team coaching practice. Themes explored in the episode include assessment in team coaching, structural dynamics, dialogue and native american counsel practices, team norms and operating principles, virtual team coaching platforms, the distinction between team training and team coaching, the link between business outcomes and team behaviors, scheduling team coaching engagements, discussable and undiscussable dialogue topics, building a "say anything" culture in teams, modeling and being bold as the team coach, finding "sandbox" clients to learn as a beginning team coach, supervision, having a plan while also working in the moment, and more. This episode is full of value, tips and lessons learned!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Dr. David Tate for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. David Tate is a licensed clinical psychologist, an executive coach and organizational consultant, an author and a Principal at Tate Consulting Group--a boutique consultancy that focuses on executive coaching and leadership advising, family owned and closely held enterprises, and organizational development. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University where he received the 2013 Distinguished Faculty Award. He is the co-author of "Sink or Swim: How Lessons from the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business." David is also a certified coach through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. In this episode David shares stories and lessons learned coaching family business enterprises as well human service organizations. He discusses the importance of managing three subsystems--the management system, the ownership system and the family system--when coaching family business teams. Other themes explored in the episode include: introducing a coaching culture to a team, using the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey in team coaching, managing challenging individual personalities in team coaching, navigating power and generational dynamics, and more. The episode is brimming over with tips and tools that all team coaches and team leaders will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Erin Hutchins for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Erin is the Director of Corporate Client Solutions and Organizational Coaching for the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) based in Washington DC. She is a Professional Certified Co-Active Coach (CPCC), is Credentialed with the ICF (PCC Level), is a CTI Leadership Graduate, and is Leadership Circle Certified. Erin is passionate about heightening awareness, aligning your mind + body + soul, and inspiring transformational change through connecting with your authentic self and purpose. She has travelled and worked across various cultures in Europe and Asia. In this episode of the podcast, Erin provides an overview of the Co-Active Relationship Engine--a model useful for guiding team coaching engagements--and also takes listeners on a deep dive into one critical element of the Relationship Engine called "Designed Alliance." Designed Alliance involves helping the team establish a strong foundation upon which four aspects of team coaching can then unfold: 1. Take Responsibility, 2. Choose, 3. Align, 4. Commit. Erin shares stories from her own team coaching experience and how designing a strong alliance up front sets the conditions for successful team coaching engagements.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Dr. Catherine Carr for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Catherine Carr is an Individual and Team Coach, Consultant and Facilitator as well as a Director at Carr Kline & Associates in British Columbia Canada. Catherine coaches leaders across Canada and internationally, from new supervisors to seasoned top executives. She is an internationally respected leader in team coaching and development. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a Registered Clinical Counselor. In this episode, Dr. Catherine introduces The High Performance Team Coaching System. The comprehensive system for leaders and coaches, developed by both Dr. Carr and her colleague Dr. Jacqueline Peters, was published in a book in 2013. Dr. Carr walks listeners through six key aspects of the team coaching system including: 1. Assessment, 2. Coaching for Team Design. 3. Team Launch. 4. Individual Coaching. 5. Ongoing Team Coaching. 6. Review Learning & Successes. Dr. Carr also discuss the centrality of safety in the team coaching model and how this approach to coaching impacts the quality outputs of a team, the team's capabilities and relationships as well as the individual engagement of the team's members. The comprehensive system provides team coaches with a powerful framework that can be used for coaching both new as well as ongoing teams. This is an episode that is brimming over with practical tips, tools and value!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Dr. Jacqueline Peters for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Jacqueline Peters is the President of InnerActive Leadership Associates and is an Executive Coach, Team and Leadership Specialist and an Author in the area of high performance team coaching and relationships. She has over 15 years of experience supporting leaders, executives, and teams to achieve higher performance. Jacqueline’s clients say that her unique mix of practical corporate experience and doctoral level knowledge of leadership, coaching, and team effectiveness helps them achieve and exceed their personal and team productivity goals. She and Dr. Catherine Carr co-authored the High Performance Team Coaching System, a robust approach developed for leaders and coaches that is grounded in the research and proven practices that build team effectiveness. In this episode Dr. Peters discusses her forthcoming book the High Performance Relationship System and how it adds unique value as well as complements the High Performance Team Coaching System. This episode is chock full of value that no team coach will want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Jennifer Britton for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Jennifer is the Founder of Potentials Realized, a Canadian Performance Improvement company focusing on coaching, leadership and team performance issues. Jennifer is the author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013). Jennifer integrates her passion for individual and team excellence, with her skills as a coach, trainer and facilitator, in the area of group and team coaching. She trains coaches group and team coaching skills in both face-to-face as well through virtual formats. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Psychology, and a Masters of Environmental Studies (MES) and has completed post-graduate HR studies. Jennifer is a Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP) and a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT). She is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI, 2005). She is recognized as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation and brings over 3000 hours of coaching experience with groups, individuals and teams. Jennifer has also completed advanced coach training in Organization and Relationship Systems (ORSC) and Shadow Coaching. Jennifer also holds the credential of Board Certified Coach (BCC) through the Center for Credentialing and Education. In this episode, Jennifer helps differentiate group coaching from team coaching and shares some best practices tips and reflections about the dynamic practice of coaching teams. Jennifer's journey to becoming a leading figure in group and team coaching is inspiring and is a story that listeners will surely not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Jane Abitanta for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Jane Abitanta, Principal of Perceval Associates, occupies a special position in the institutional investment arena that comes from her ability to diagnose the underlying problems that get in the way of money managers, and provide successful solutions that help them attract and retain clients. Over the past fifteen years, Jane has advised many of the top institutional fund managers, family offices and more than 100 hedge funds, helping them to articulate their particular edge in terms of the real-world needs of their markets. She has served as a charter faculty member of the Institute for Private Investors, a member of the Investment Committee of Women’s World Banking, and a director of the Association for Investment Management Sales Executives (AIMSE). She is a director of Green Cay Asset Management, a Bahamas-based alternative investment firm and a former director of Shaking the Tree, a not-for-profit organization that uses interactive theater to illustrate family dynamics. In this episode Jane shares stories of hits and misses coaching asset management teams. Themes highlighted in the podcast interview include: establishing credibility as a coach, using the self as instrument, balancing the roles of coach and facilitator, supervision and peer coaching support and more. Some resources Jane recommends are the work on Intentional Change Theory and Learning Agility. If you are a team coach interested in working with money managers, this is an episode you surely will not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach DJ Mitsch for this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. DJ is an award winning author, a thought leader in the coaching profession, a certified Mentor Coach and a Master Certified Coach and one of the first 25 designated by the International Coach Federation (ICF). As the 2001 President of the ICF, DJ led the association across borders to become recognized as the global professional society of coaches. DJ served on the Board of Directors for six formative years as the ICF developed the certification programs and the ethics and standards for coaching, and was responsible for international chapter development including China, Japan and Australia. DJ co-founded The Pyramid Resource Group, The Corporate Coaching Company, in 1994 with husband Barry Mitsch. In January 2013, DJ founded the Healthcare Coaching Institute to serve the growing need to prepare coaches who work with leaders in the chaotic business of healthcare. She is the Creator of Team Advantage-a leading edge team coaching approach for transforming teams. In this episode DJ shares the incredible story of scaling team coaching in a pharmaceutical company that involved coaching 60 teams and that led to dramatic organizational results. The episode is chock full of lessons learned, tips and practical advice that every team coach will not want to miss!

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Greg Burns for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Greg Burns is the President of G Burns and Associates, an Executive Coach as well as a Human Capital Transformation, Learning and Leadership Development Consultant with over 25 years of senior executive experience in leading global organizations. His corporate experience includes serving as the first Chief Learning Officer for Citigroup – leading 1700 learning professionals in 41 countries, Senior Human Resources Officer of US Consumer Lending at Citigroup, Manager of Organizational Capability at Pepsi, and HR and Training Manager at Saks Fifth Avenue. In this episode Greg shares his five-step approach to coaching teams for high performance and highlights the approach through two powerful stories from his own practice.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Dr. Yaron Prywes for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Yaron Prywes is a Coaching Psychologist and the Creator of the LeaderNation™ 360 Degree Multi-Rater Feedback Instrument. In this episode Dr. Prywes shares a combined “hit and miss” story that focuses on coaching a senior leadership team. The case highlights strategies for engaging team members who exhibit varying degrees of motivation to participate in the coaching process. The story highlights the importance of proactively and regularly receiving coaching supervision in order to maintain one’s role and focus during team coaching engagements. Dr. Prywes provides a number of valuable resources and recommendations: The Center for Creative Leadership, The Hudson Institute of Coaching, The LeaderNation 360 Multi-Rater Feedback Instrument, the NBI Thinking Preferences Assessment, The Confidentiality Spectrum, the CCL Situation Behavior Impact model, and more. For show notes and more information on team coaching go to www.TeamCoachingZone.com.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and this week's guest and leading organizational coach Tom Fumarelli as we explore coaching CEO and COO partnership teams. Tom is a Leadership Development Consultant, Professional Certified Executive Coach and Business Advisor who supports leaders, business owners and organizations to make sustainable change and achieve their personal best. His consulting, coaching and advisory work is based on a successful thirty-year career as a global CFO, COO and President. During his career as an operating executive, Tom had full P&L and management responsibility. He was President of Holly Hunt Enterprises, COO of Yakima Products Inc. and Senior Vice President of CHANEL where he was responsible to coordinate finance and operations in more than 25 countries. Prior to this he learned his craft at Kidder Peabody, Chase Manhattan Bank, Exxon Corporation and Price Waterhouse - in various global roles. Tom has a proven track record of leading high performing teams in public, private and family owned businesses. His success is based on his ability to motivate others to achieve challenging goals while honoring the unique differences and contributions of each individual. Tune in to this week's episode and listen to Tom share three team coaching stories.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and this week's guest and leading organizational coach Jean Frankel as we explore developing leadership cultures through team coaching. Jean Frankel is an internationally known and respected management consultant, educator, facilitator and executive coach. She is a Founder and Principal for Ideas for Action, LLC. and the author of a number of books the most recent of which is called "From Insight to Action: 6 New Ways to Think, Lead and Achieve." Tune in to this week's episode and listen to Jean share three team coaching stories.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this week's interview with Felipe Paiva. Felipe Paiva is a Partner at Artisan Consultoria, based in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Felipe is an experienced executive and team coach who works with a range of multi-national firms operating in Brazil and globally. In this episode Felipe shares stories about "surfing the wave of team coaching" from his practice.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and this week's guest Dr. Rachel Ciporen. Dr. Ciporen is an executive coach, consultant and educator based in Brooklyn New York as well as a faculty member of the Columbia University Coaching Certification Program. In this interview Dr. Ciporen shares two stories of team coaching that highlight team coaching for development and for performance.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for this episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. In this episode Dr. Lowe shares two team coaching stories and explores the role that macro frameworks and micro tools play in the coaching process.

Join Dr. Krister Lowe for the launch episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast. In this episode you will learn about the rationale for the podcast and how the podcast series will provide value to new and experienced team coaches.