The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

Introduction

Defining and differentiating team coaching from other forms of team intervention

David Clutterbuck, Judie Gannon, Sandra Hayes, Ioanna Iordanou, Krister Lowe and Doug MacKie

Interest and focus on teams and their development are inexorably rising and with that comes the need to define and clarify how processes like team coaching can be distinguished from other forms of team development. Before we do so, it is valuable to consider why an interest in teams, and how to fast-track their development, appears to be in the ascendency in organisations. Several arguments have been advanced to explain this phenomenon. First, the rise of complexity in general, and leader role complexity specifically, has demanded an ever-widening skill set from ...