October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
The internal coaching approach is generally my preferred approach. Not surprisingly, there are a strong set of advantages to it, including the following:
• Well-running teams do not need to be split. A drawback to the prior patterns is that functioning teams are split to form the foundations of new teams. When using internal coaches, teams stay intact with only the minor disruption of an occasional outsider (the coach) joining the team.
• Coaches can be hand-selected for new teams. An approach like the split-and-seed pattern takes a whole-team approach to coaching: The new team is coached collectively by the seeding team members. Some of those individuals will be good in that role; some will not. With internal ...
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