Chapter 1

Your role

It’s not often that we take a step back and think about our role as a leader. This chapter offers you a chance to do just that and take the opportunity to fine tune or change the way you work in order to develop your role as a team coach.

In this chapter you will have the opportunity to:

  • understand your role as a team coach
  • develop a coaching mindset
  • develop your team coaching approach.

How do you see your role?

Look at the statements on the following two pages and indicate where your preference is for leading your team. Try to be honest and think about examples from your day-to-day work.

STRONGLY AGREE AGREE NEUTRAL AGREE STRONGLY AGREE
As a team leader I am responsible for ­making all the decisions Decision-making ...

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