The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

19 Looking outside-in

The case for a context-driven approach to team coaching

Krish Iyer

Understanding, interpreting and leveraging the various elements that form the context that teams operate in can significantly enhance the value delivered from team coaching engagements, and, conversely, if ignored, can significantly reduce their impact and effectiveness. This chapter outlines an approach to incorporate the analysis of context into team coaching engagements. The key aspects of team context that this chapter seeks to address are therefore three-fold.

1 The rationale and significance to considering context in team coaching (the “why?”).

2 The key elements of external context that need to be considered in team coaching engagements (the “what?”). ...