The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

20 A dialogic approach to coaching teams

Paul Lawrence, Sarah Hill, Andreas Priestland, Cecilia Forrestal, Floris Rommerts, Isla Hyslop and Monica Manning

Though team coaching as a discipline may be significantly behind the development of individual coaching (Hawkins, 2014), nevertheless there exists a proliferation of different approaches and models (Peters & Carr, 2013). In this chapter, a dialogic approach to team coaching is described, based on the pioneering work of Isaacs (1999). The approach appears to sit well with generic team coaching frameworks (e.g., Hawkins, 2014) and is consistent with contemporary theories of organisational development and change. The dialogic team coaching model includes tasks the coach must consider before and ...