The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

13 Emotion and team performance

Team coaching mindsets and practices for team interventions

Geetu Bharwaney, Steven B. Wolff and Vanessa Urch Druskat

Team coaching requires a “State of Being,” which we refer to as team coaching mindset, as well as practices for delivering team interventions, the “Doing.” In this chapter, we begin with a list of mindset shifts that team coaches must make to be effective. We then present examples of each mindset in practice showing how the mindset leads to decisions on how to structure, design and execute a productive team coaching engagement. Our suggested mindsets and practices will inform practitioners, in a variety of contexts, who are eager to help teams reach their potential. Our intention is to shorten the ...