063: Alexander Caillet: Coaching Teams in Real Time with a Focus on Both Heart and Results

What is it that sets team coaching apart from other modalities, and what makes this way of working so powerful? Alexander Caillet—Founder and CEO of Corentus—has a clear point of view: team coaching focuses on real work, in real time, for real results.

Over the past 20+ years, Alexander has worked with more than 150 teams in more than 30 countries across five continents. In addition to his client work, he also conducts intensive team coaching training, through both Georgetown University and the Corentus Team Coaching Certificate Program. In this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast, Alexander shares his journey into team coaching and his perceptions of the possibilities and promise of this growing field.  

Themes explored on the podcast include:

• The impact of coaching teams in real time, on real business issues
• Limits of traditional team development approaches
• Several different hats team coaches may wear
• The need for practical team tools
• Factors influencing the demand for team coaching engagements
• Structure of team coaching engagements
• Using sociograms for data gathering
• Self-coaching within teams
• What it takes to achieve sustainable change in teams
• Critical considerations for coaching a team leader
• Team coaching presence and mindset
• and more.

Alexander relates stories from his own experience—both failures and successes—and highlights the lessons he’s learned about what it takes to practice effectively and responsibly as a team coach. He also shares a variety of resources for aspiring team coaches and current practitioners—ranging from self-guided learning tools to the 9-month Corentus Team Coaching Certificate Program to the 2017 Team Coaching Toolbox Gathering. (More information is available at www.corentus.com.)

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from an influential pioneer and thought leader in the team coaching field!