Keeping the wheels turning
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Aileen Goodman & Caroline Love
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Team leaders have prime responsibility for ensuring the continued effectiveness and efficiency of their team. Coaching is an essential part of this role. The team leader has to be able to recognise when coaching is appropriate, to keep the team motivated and highly performing. This activity helps team leaders to use coaching to promote learning, using mutual respect, trust and freedom of expression to develop team excellence and keep the wheels turning to maintain high performance.
A milling exercise lets participants find out more about each other and helps build trust. Pair work and a group discussion identify when team coaching may be an appropriate intervention. Differences between team and individual coaching are discussed, before small groups use a case study to explore the skills involved in team coaching. Participants use role-play to practise, and receive feedback on, their coaching skills. The activity ends with individuals completing a learning log to audit their team coaching skills and consider their practice in the future.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to explore team coaching.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 03:30:00 |
| No of Pages: | 38 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Coloured paper - cream, pink, green, blue, mauve and white; 2 pads of Post-itŪ Notes.
Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to enable them to explore when team coaching is an appropriate intervention, and to identify the skills required. This activity also gives team leaders the opportunity to practise team coaching. Use this activity as part of your programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, and for other team programmes such as Team Communications and Team Development. It can also be used for Managing for the First Time, Managing Poor Performance and Personal Development programmes.
Download the training activity, Keeping the wheels turning as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role