The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

24 Action, reflection and learning in team coaching

Chandana Sanyal and David E. Gray

 

 

The aim of this chapter is to examine the role of a coach in supporting reflection, learning and taking action in a team or a group. The chapter will begin by exploring the role of a coach or adviser in learning groups, such as action learning sets where the role of the coach is to ask questions to encourage the team to consider and reflect on their current situation (Marquardt, Leonard, Freedman, & Hill, 2009). This is compared and contrasted to the role of a team coach working with a team to achieve common team outcomes in a way that combines performance and processes (Hackman & Wageman, 2005). The concept of learning as a social process in both interventions ...