The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

7 What does ‘good’ look like?

An overview of the research on the effectiveness of team coaching

Jacqueline Peters and Catherine Carr

Organizations increasingly rely on teams as the complexity of business problems and tasks increases (Gude, 2016) and team coaching is a solution that is accessed more frequently every year as a result. To meet this demand, we have an opportunity and responsibility as practitioners to define what we do and provide evidence that what we do makes a difference. Coaching as a whole is a $2 billion annual global industry yet it still has limited efficacy research (ICF, 2012).

This chapter updates and expands upon the team coaching literature review published by these authors in Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, ...