The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

6 Standing on the shoulders of the science of team effectiveness

Building rigour into your team coaching design

Colm Murphy and Melissa Sayer

We have identified some of the significant gaps in the existing team coaching literature. We propose that the field of team coaching needs to be more robust in showing impact and that the field of team effectiveness is a valid base on which to build rigour into team coaching practice. This chapter examines how team effectiveness is measured in the literature, the key components and outcomes that impact team effectiveness, and consequently how team coaching interventions might be approached. We will highlight some of the gaps for future research and provide insight into how the co-authors bring together ...