The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

17 Spinning the Systems Wheel

Turning the magic of ‘systems thinking’ into a practical tool for team coaching

Richard Boston

Hawkins (2014) differentiates ‘systemic’ team coaching from other approaches to team coaching and facilitation primarily on the basis that the systemic team coach pays far greater attention to the team as a system that exists within a number of wider systems. The systemic team coach also helps the team develop its own capacity to think systemically, enhancing its ability to engage and co-create with its stakeholders. The ‘contract’ is with the team and its key stakeholders and the coach acknowledges that they, too, become part of the system as soon as the work begins – that they cannot, even if they’d like to, remain entirely ...