098: Jason Ighani: Coaching Purpose-Driven Teams: Insights from International Humanitarian Organizations

What are the challenges and opportunities coaching purpose-driven teams vs. profit-driven teams? How do we develop team leaders and teams working in hierarchical organizational settings? How do we balance the structural, relational and emergent needs and dynamics in teams?

Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these compelling questions with special guest Jason Ighani. Jason Ighani is an accomplished team development specialist who brings over 15 years of (global experience) to KITE. He has worked extensively within the United Nations system in the areas of leadership development and performance management; specializing in assessing, launching and coaching leadership teams in both emergency and development contexts. Jason’s clients include a wide range of agencies and NGOs including UNICEF, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNHCR and the UN Secretariat. Jason is also the founder of The Humanitarian Coaching Network, an organization that enlists coaches worldwide to help humanitarian and development organizations support the engagement and wellbeing of their staff and accelerate organizational change. Jason often works with an organization's most senior leadership, and has a strong reputation for combining empathy with a candid, supportive, direct approach to helping teams become more responsive, aware and agile.

Some themes explored in this episode include:

• The journey to becoming a team coach
• Balancing coaching the structural conditions of teams along with the relational and emergent aspects
• The special role of team leaders in team coaching as well as the limits of their role
• Coaching purpose-driven teams in the international humanitarian sector
• Clarity of purpose and accountability in teams
• Assessing team leader and team readiness for team coaching
• The frontier being more in the “art of team coaching” vs. the “science of team coaching”
• Continuing one’s evolution as a team coach
• And more!

This is an episode full of value bombs that all team coaches will surely not want to miss! Start listening today and let Jason Ighani help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! For show notes and more information on team coaching go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com