The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership

How can team coaches increase their adaptability and versatility? What are the essential roles of an effective team coach? What bodies of knowledge about teams are critical for coaching teams for success?  Tune in to this installment of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews team coaching thought leader, educator and practitioner Dr. Laura Hauser.  Dr. Hauser is the Founder of www.Leadership-Strategies.com and President of the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching. Laura wears multiple hats as masterful coach, consultant, mentor, author, educator, social scientist, conference speaker and business owner.  She is the author of the seminal team coaching article based on her PhD dissertation Shape-Shifting: A Behavioral Team Coaching Model for Coach Education, Research and Practice in the 2014 Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, 5, 48-71. Themes explored on the podcast include:  Laura's journey to team coaching following an 18 year corporate career and founding Leadership Strategies International in 1993 Laura's seminal doctoral dissertation on team coaching in organizations The Shape-Shifting team coaching model: 4 essential and dynamic roles: Advisor, Educator, Catalyzer, Assimilator 4 lenses for understanding teams: group dynamics, task coordination, team development, systemic context Laura's upcoming June/July 2018 Gestalt Review article on The Team Coaching Operating System Stories about coaching teams using the Shape-Shifting model Inspiration and advice for making the leap into coaching teams And more!  This episode provides a wonderful opportunity to learn from one of the team coaching field's pioneering thought leaders who bridges the worlds of theory, research and practice.  Tune in today and let Dr. Laura Hauser help you take your team coaching practice to the next level!  This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

What role can technology play in helping teams form, develop and grow? Will coach bots and artificial intelligence replace the need for human-based team coaching? Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling questions with Tom Marsden, CEO of Saberr—a people analytics company that leverages technology to improve collaboration and help people create happy, high performing teams. In this episode Tom shares his journey from an early career in private equity to management consulting and then to discovering a passion for teams and technology as the CEO of Saberr. Themes explored in the podcast include: •Origin story of Saberr •The role of values in predicting team success •Team composition and formation •Saberr’s 3 core offerings: Base, CoachBot and Coaching •How to integrate both technology as well as human-based coaching to foster self-coaching teams •How to generate buy-in for using technology and coaching in teams •Stories and lessons learned using Saberr’s approach in a range of companies •How the future will continue to integrate technological as well as human-based approaches to fostering more engaged and successful teams •How artificial intelligence and coachbots will increase the need for human-based team coaching rather than reducing it •And more! This episode is a must listen for all team coaches who are interested in how to incorporate technology into their practices and who are wary of being potentially outsourced by that very technology itself. Tom’s vision of the future of team coaching is inspiring and a blue ocean for those willing to dive in! Tune in and listen to this episode today and get ready to take your team coaching practice to the next level!

How can integrating embodiment approaches supercharge your leadership and team coaching practice? Is there any science behind somatic practices? Is embodiment the missing key to moving from transactional to transformational leadership and teams? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling topics with featured guest Dr. Carmela Bennett—an executive leadership coach and consultant and leadership faculty member at Columbia University. In this episode Dr. Bennett shares her journey from an early childhood epiphany while watching the Nutcracker, to her sojourn into various forms of dance, to becoming a behavioral health therapist, to becoming an Aikido practitioner, to pursuing a doctorate in body-based leadership development and coaching, and to becoming a thought leader, teacher and practitioner in embodiment coaching and consulting. Specific themes explored in the podcast include: How awareness is helpful but often insufficient to manifest change Integrating “being and doing” Positioning somatic and embodiment approaches in the marketplace Ways the body responds to situations The science behind somatic approaches Mindfulness and partnership practices Incorporating the “neck down” in leadership development in addition to the “head” Stories and tips for how to apply embodiment practices in one-to-one and team coaching Resources for getting started in incorporating embodiment into your coaching practice And more! Tune in today to this episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast and let Dr. Carmela Bennett help you move your coaching from the transactional to the transformational! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

What is learning agility and how can it be measured? What role does learning agility play in helping us adapt more effectively in an increasingly VUCA world? Is learning agility something that can be systematically developed within individuals, teams and organizations? Tune in to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast with show host Dr. Krister Lowe and special guest David Hoff--the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Leadership Development at EASI•Consult. In this episode, David introduces listeners to the concept of Learning Agility and why this critical capability is essential for leaders, teams and organizations. Themes covered in the show include: Defining and measuring learning agility David’s journey to working with Professor Warner Burke on bringing the Burke Learning Agility Inventory to the market 4 years of research underlying the instrument An overview of David and Warner’s new book: Learning Agility: The Key to Leadership Potential The 9 dimensions of learning agility A case example using the Burke Learning Agility Inventory with a leader in healthcare Areas where the Burke Learning Agility Inventory is being applied in organizations Ongoing areas of research on Learning Agility Resources to Learn More about Learning Agility and Burke Learning Agility Inventory As we start to get into 2018, learning agility couldn’t be a more important topic for us as team coaches. It’s implications strike at the heart of enabling individual, team and organizational success. Tune in to the Team Coaching Zone today and let David Hoff start taking your learning agility to the next level!

Where should teams begin to start building momentum and a thriving culture? Can meetings really be disrupted to become spaces of genuine productivity and value creation?  How can teams create a culture of shared ownership for meeting success? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guests Mamie Kanfer Stewart and Tai Tsao to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast!  Mamie Kanfer Stewart is CEO and Founder of Meeteor, a collaboration company that helps organizations builds strong, healthy cultures in which people thrive. Tai Tsao is Change Management and Customer Success Lead at Meeteor. Some themes explored on the podcast include: How teams can build momentum by disrupting their meetings culture Mamie and Tai’s new book Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging and Enjoyable Meetings The origins of the company and its name Meeteor: “Meetings with Impact” Insights into pitching team coaching to clients Meeteor’s 8 dimension team effectiveness model and tool: Balance, Communication, Change Agility, Common Vision and Direction, Accountability, Shared Support, Meaningful Engagement, and Trust Meeteor’s approach to working with teams: assessment; 2 week sprints including training, coaching and action modules for 2 to 4 months; sustaining new habits and change Meeteor’s approach to meetings: tips and techniques for before, during and after team meetings Desired outcomes, time management, agendas, notes, using tools and technologies and more to increase meeting effectiveness Research showing that 30% of meeting time is wasted due to inefficiencies A case example of how Meeteor helped a stone masonry company transform its team and organizational culture and how that impacted customers All team members, team leaders and team coaches will find this episode essential listening for transforming team meetings and more.  Join the movement for creating better meetings! Tune in today and let Mamie and Tai take your team coaching practice to the next level.  For episode show notes and more go to: https://www.TeamCoachingZone.com/meeteor. Learn more about Meeteor: Website: www.meeteor.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/meeteorHQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meeteorHQ/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meeteor-software Link to article on Thriving Teams Model: Take Your Team from Good to Great with These 8 Elements of a Thriving Team (http://blog.meeteor.com/blog/thriving-team/) Mamie and Tai’s book available on Amazon For people interested in bulk orders discounts are available for 11+ books on the Meeteor website. Visit http://www.meeteor.com/store/momentum. If you're using twitter to push content you can mention Mamie and Tai @mamieks and @taitsao. Their respective websites are http://www.mamieks.com and http://www.taitsao.com

Can games help accelerate forming, learning and performance in teams? Is there more to playing games than just fun and entertainment? How can team coaches, facilitators and trainers incorporate games into their team interventions? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guests Bradley Albright (Managing Partner and Founder of Escape Entertainment and Vitality Teaming) and Sarah Raccuglia (Learning and Development Professional with Vitality Teaming) to explore these and other interesting topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Some themes explored in the Zone this week include: Brad’s journey from officer in the US Army, to investment banker with JP Morgan, to serial entrepreneur in technology, renewable energy and now to gaming. Sarah’s background in Organizational Psychology, somatic leadership and research on dolphins. Purposeful games as vehicles of training and coaching The surfacing of team dynamics and individual preferences through games Task vs. process in teams Emergent and distributed leadership through game simulation Helping, caring and collaboration behaviors in teams 3 Game Form Factors: escape rooms, mobile cases, large group games Time length of games and team size considerations The origins of escape games in Asia Designing collaborative games Integrating assessments into the gaming experience Using games with teams at scale The role of coaching, facilitation and training with team games Generational and other diversity effects on game experiences Flow states: the neuroscience of play, creativity, engagement, flow Looking to add some fun and spice to your team coaching engagements? Dive into the world of Vitality Teaming with Brad Albright and Sarah Raccuglia and let them help you take your team coaching game to the next level! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

Can team coaching serve as a vehicle for leadership development in addition to generating better business results? How does team coaching create collaborative energy across teams and organizations? What happens when team coaches slow down the action in order to allow moments of truth to surface? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Dr. Hilary Lines to explore these and other interesting topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast! Dr. Hilary Lines is a Founding Partner at Touchpoint Leaders where she is a practicing Executive and Team Coach. She is also a Faculty Member in team coaching at the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), and a co-author of the book Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations (with Jacqui Scholes-Rhodes). Themes covered in this episode include: Lines’ journey from business researcher to HR professional working with R&D teams, to leadership development and change management consultant and later to Head of Partner Development at Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting, to leadership coach and consultant at IBM, to leading her own Executive and Team Coaching business and becoming a Faculty Member at the Academy of Executive Coaching. Teams as nested entities “Leadership at the Touchpoint” as first described in Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations (Lines and Scholes-Rhodes) that spans individual, team and organizational coaching Organizations as networks of relationships; relationships as the prime source of value creation in organizations Team coaching as a vehicle for leadership development and creating collaborative energy Leadership as residing in the relationships between individuals, teams and organizational systems Hilary Lines and John Leary-Joyce’s forthcoming book on Systemic Team Coaching Story of coaching a team in a professional services firm The role of team leaders in team coaching engagements Moments of choice as team coaches: Slowing down the action in order to surface moments of truth  Coaching individuals on the team in addition to the team and the team leader Team coaching as a learning process Insights into the training of team coaches: the What, the How and the Who Trends in the team coaching industry Resources for team coaches and more… This is yet another episode chock full of learning gems for team coaches. Get into the Team Coaching Zone today and let Dr. Hilary Lines help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! To learn more about Dr. Hilary Lines visit: www.TouchpointLeaders.com. For episode show notes and more information on team coaching go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com.

How do we more fully integrate the "being" aspect of team coaching with the "doing"? What are the essential competencies that need to be internalized to successfully coach teams? How do we accelerate our learning as team coaches and as a team coaching community? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Georgina Woudstra to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Georgina Woudstra is an ICF Master Certified Coach and Principal & Founder of the Executive Coach Studio (http://www.executivecoachstudio.com/). She has over 20 years of experience and specializes in coaching chief executives and senior leadership. She also trains team coaches through the Executive Coach Studio's Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery. Some themes explored in this episode include: Georgina’s journey as a successful entrepreneur, her dive into the field of coaching and her development into coaching teams Coaching competencies needed to successfully coach teams Coaching presence Additional roles one may play that are separate from coaching and Georgina's stance on maintaining a “pure” coaching role Coaching the team 80-90% of the time How coaches use control and structure to manage anxiety vs. actually coaching the team The coach's relationship with the team leader and team Case example that shifted her team coaching practice from structure to emergence Her lessons learned on becoming a reflective practitioner by journaling and looking inward Process consultation and systemic team coaching How to accelerate your learning as team coach 4 module Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery Forming team coaching learning communities The relational element of team coaching as an emerging trend Reflections on the market need for team coaching and the importance of self-as-instrument This is a great episode for coaches interested in learning how to navigate the art of team coaching. Georgina strikes at the heart of team coaching and creates a compelling case for the importance of the “being” of a team coach. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

How do we coach across individuals, teams and systems to drive organizational change? Is it possible to be both an internal leader and an organizational coach at the same time? Do team coaches need to be subject matter experts in the content of what the teams are working on? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Phillip Cave to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Phillip Cave is a Life and Organizational Fulfillment Coach and a Senior Manager at Accenture. He is a people and organizational transformation leader with more than 27 years of experience creating himself, technology startups and coaching organizations. His experience in software engineering, leadership and product management shifted to professional life coaching which results in cultural shifts in Fortune 50 companies. Some themes explored in this episode include: Phillip’s journey from photographer to software developer, to becoming a leader and manager of teams and people, to becoming an organizational coach. Metaphor of a chiropractor: creating alignment across teams, leaders and organizations Forces driving the shift to new forms of organizational design and effectiveness: 1) agile movement and 2) humanness Coaching as a vehicle to help individuals and systems emerge Engaging leaders around their willingness to lead transformation: both the “being” as well as the “doing” aspects Coaching leaders to see themselves as part of the system and not apart from it The Lean Change Canvas Role of the coach to act as a mirror to help the organization “see itself” Case example: building a new commerce platform over the course of 1 year with a team of 70 at Starbucks Coaching the “team’s voice” Being part of the leadership team as an internal director and organizational coach at the same time Challenging teams to embody roles like “scrum master” as a function distributed across the team rather than as a job owned by one person Team Performance Model: resource form coaching teams across the lifecycle The emergence of the “Management Coach” job in companies Learning how to be a catalyst of people The merging of worlds: technology + learning and development Coaching organizational design and effectiveness Reflections on the future of organizational coaching and more This is a great episode for coaches interested in understanding how organizational coaching is adapting in order to stay relevant in an era of disruptive organizational change. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!

How is work changing and how do we design organizations to be fit for purpose in the knowledge and collaboration economy? How do we form and equip teams to balance capability with infinite demand? How do we coach teams for emergence? Tune in this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling questions with featured guest Gabe Abella--an Organizational Coach and Vice President in Global Technology at JP Morgan Chase and an accredited Kanban trainer. Themes covered in the podcast include: • Gabe’s journey from project and program manager to organizational coach • Fundamental shifts occurring in how we approach and organize work in the knowledge and collaboration economy • Understanding 3 Natures: 1) the nature of the work the team is doing, 2) the nature of the organization, 3) the nature of the environment/market • The infinite backlog and the finite team: balancing capability with demand • Kanban – Lean; visual management system; seeing the flow of work; “look at the board” or signal card; an improvement method • Problem-solving as a biological process: iterative cycles and learning • The invisibility of knowledge work • Collocated vs. distributed teams • Team formation for organizational realignments • Skills vs. roles and motivation in team formation • Being invisible as a team coach • Use of simulation prior to engaging in real work in order to reduce learning anxiety • Fitness for Purpose Framework • Diffusion of Innovation • Flow Lab – experiential simulation to overcome efficiency mindset and more • Reflections on the ongoing coaching of teams and scaling agile • Implications of agile coaching for non-software teams • Coaching for emergence • Tons of great resources for team coaches and more! The Agile movement is disrupting organizations and our approaches to working, learning and teaming. All team coaches need to increase their own agility and to be fit for purpose themselves in order to compete in the knowledge and collaboration economy. Tune in to this episode and let Gabe Abella help you elevate your team coaching game today!