From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching

Chapter 3

Core Skills for Team and Group Coaching

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

—Aristotle

As a discipline, coaching is grounded in a series of core coaching competencies. These skills distinguish our work as coaches. Inherent to the discussion of coaching many is an exploration of the core skills and approaches needed for team coaching. This chapter helps to further delineate coaching from other related fields such as training, facilitation and consulting.

The core coaching competencies make group and team coaching what it is. This chapter explores what the core coaching competencies are, and how they play out in the team and group coaching conversation. Whether you are an internal or external ...