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

Chapter 7

Virtual Design and Delivery

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

–Plato¹

Technology continues to rapidly change the landscape in which team and group coaching is being rolled out. Coaches may find themselves working with a geographically dispersed group with members who connect from across the continent, or across the globe. Coaches working in organizations may find themselves connecting with both intact teams and virtual teams, for phone- and web-based programs. Virtual design and delivery is becoming the norm ...