The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

4 Models of shared leadership and team coaching

Doug MacKie

 

 

Convergent anthropological evidence suggests humans were fiercely egalitarian throughout prehistory with dire consequences for those who sought to excessively dominate the group or limit the capabilities and roles of fellow members (Boehm, 1999). Until recently, organisations appear to have forgotten this archetypical lesson from history, promoting the individual leader over the team and emphasising leaders not leadership (Hawkins, 2014). Recently this collective amnesia appears to have been dissipating with the rise of interest in high performing teams, their structure and embedded leadership styles, (Hawkins, 2011; Wageman, Nunes, Burruss, & Hackman, 2008). One of the major drivers ...