The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

30 Team coaching through CDAI and the GLP

Cara Miller, Bill Torbert, Nancy Wallis and Karen C. Yeyinmen

 

This chapter illustrates how Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry (CDAI) theory, method, and practice (Erfan & Torbert, 2015; Taylor, 2017; Torbert, 1991, 2013; Torbert & Associates, 2004) can be used to simultaneously assess and transform leaders, teams, and organizations, through a non-formulaic coaching and consulting process that becomes increasingly self-transforming and collaborative as it evolves. After a brief theoretical introduction, two cases are discussed in which team coaches used CDAI along with a psychometric measure, the Global Leadership Profile (GLP), to promote learning and performance objectives of teams and their ...