9 Defining team coaching

A practitioner perspective

Paul Lawrence

 

Though coaching has been defined by some, specifically as a dyadic practice (Grant et al., 2010; Peterson & Little, 2005), team coaching is now recognised and accepted as a form of coaching in many parts of the world (Henley Business School, 2010; Sherpa Coaching, 2012, 2013). However, there exist multiple definitions of team coaching (Clutterbuck, 2013b; Peters & Carr, 2013), and there are no universally accepted boundaries between team coaching and other disciplines, such as group coaching, facilitation, process consultation or even training (e.g. Carter & Hawkins, 2013). In this chapter, we will review the outcomes of a recent research study, the primary purpose of which was ...

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