In this second part of my conversation with Dr Alison Hodge, we dive further into the territory of team coaching. I hope you find it as thrilling, fun and eye-opening as I did.
Some of the points we explore are how to use or apply the map to:

*Identify the dynamic forces at play on the team and organisation
*Invite nature into the conversation
*Navigate your terrain as a team coach during a client engagement
*Share the map with your client to define where to start an engagement
*Develop yourself and your clients’ capacity to be with the emergent
*Allow ourselves to be with the magic of life itself
*Create dialogue and a unified field for the team coaching profession

129: Alison Hodge: Mapping the Territory of Team Coaching

Michelle Chambers and I met through Team Coaching International several years ago as members of Faculty. She's one of the most joyful people I know and a really savvy organisational development and team coaching expert. We caught up just before the end of 2020 to talk through her take on resilience and how she works systemically with teams to build it.

Always grateful to hear your feedback, meanwhile please enjoy this episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast.

Find Michelle at

michelle@chambersandassociates.ca
www.chambersandassociates.ca
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/michellechambers

130: Michelle Chambers: What Creates Resilience in Teams?

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and leading organizational coach Bob Costello—a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Bob offers over 20 years experience in the software industry and has held leadership positions in both software startups and large organizations. He has a background in software development, product management, and engineering. For the last 8 years Bob has been helping organizations, both at the team and leadership levels, to make the transition to agile. Bob excels at helping organizations achieve both their business and organizational goals of an agile change program, with leadership coaching, team coaching and change management. He has a rich background of experience with IBM Design Studio, BlueCollar Objects, Akkolade Consulting, Valtech, ACS, CGI-AMS, BEA Systems, Deloitte, Next Software and more.

In this episode Bob shares his journey over the last 20 years rising up through the ranks in the software development industry to becoming an agile leadership and team coach. Themes covered in the podcast include: working at NEXT Software with Steve Jobs; The Agile Manifesto; the changing operating context that catalyzed the agile movement; agile principles and practices; coaching agile mindsets vs. process; “being” vs. “doing” agile; using situational leadership for coaching agile leaders and teams; shared leadership in agile teams; the 4 SCRUM ceremonies; managing your role as an agile team coach; team maturity and development; agile teams as learning teams and more. Bob also shares some great stories coaching agile teams as well as recommendations on books and team coach training programs that focus on agile.

All team coaches including both generalist practitioners as well as specialists in coaching agile teams will find Bob’s insights and lessons learned well worth the listen. This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

053: Bob Costello: Coaching Agile Teams: From Being a Group to Becoming an Agile Team

Before, during and for sure post the immediate crisis of #Covid-19, organisations today are having to reinvent themselves faster than ever before. 

As a behaviour change expert working with senior teams, I tend to focus on the human system itself rather than operational systems and processes. Clearly both relationships and tasks need to be reimagined for companies to adapt and thrive.
 
Unpicking the spaghetti junction of a business’s operational system is not easily done, but Dr Klaus Leopold, CEO of Flight Levels Academy and Managing Partner of Leanability seems to have the knack for it. For those in the agile world, Klaus is a bit of a legend and it is his third book, Rethinking Agile that prompted me to invite him onto the Team Coaching Zone podcast to ask about how he goes about whole-systems change.

Here's some of what Klaus and I cover
･ How he discovered and defines flight levels
･ Why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility
･ How flight levels work in helping to re-imagine businesses 
･ Why we don’t need high-performance teams  
･ The dangers of focusing on teams as islands rather than agile interactions
･ The relationship between flight levels thinking and three horizons thinking
･ Klaus’ vision for a better world 

For show notes and information on Klaus including his books, his blog and how to find him on Twitter and LinkedIn go to: https://www.teamcoachingzone.com/klausleopold

From Team Coach to Changemaker

120: Klaus Leopold: Reinventing Agile: Why High Performing Teams Isn't The Answer

TCZ Podcast #122: Jennifer Garvey Berger: Cultivating Leadership & Unlocking Mindtraps in Teams

Given the astonishing experience of 2020 – which has confirmed that we have entered a moment of radical change and alteration - how can we as team coaches find deep and intentional ways to grow ourselves and our clients in order to better thrive in complex times?

In Episode #122, I’m really excited to pose this question and more to my guest Jennifer Garvey Berger – Jennifer’s ‘Growth Edge Coaching’ approach, which she describes in her book, Changing on the Job, has been developed over the last decade and underpins her work developing leaders and coaching senior teams in organisations such as Google, KPMG, Microsoft, and the New Zealand Department of Conservation.

Jennifer also coaches transformational and development coaching approaches in her Growth Edge Coaching certification series, and is a highly popular speaker at leadership and coaching conferences around the world. She is the co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, the author of three acclaimed books and holds a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University.

During our conversation we touch on
- an overview of the adult development theory that underpins Jennifer's work
- the uniqueness of a transformational and development coaching approach to working with teams
- stories of working with teams using this approach
- the challenge of helping to accelerate human growth in leadership teams
- meeting our own shadow and doing the work ourselves
- the sense of urgency for this work
- Jennifer's vision for the coaching and team coaching industry
- bringing spirit back into the workplace

Find out more about Jennifer: 
cultivatingleadership.com (Company Website)
kiwibergers.blogspot.com (Blog)
growthedgecoaching.com (Company Website)
twitter jgberger
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-garvey-berger-7b4a264/

122: Jennifer Garvey Berger: Cultivating Leadership & Unlocking Mindtraps in Teams

According to the World Economic Forum 70% of the world’s economy is made up of family businesses and 50% of the global workforce work in those businesses. Aside from the business case, I am passionate about coaching family businesses and have been looking around for a few buddies to talk things through. I’m delighted therefore to be joined in Episode #123 of The Team Coaching Zone podcast by a real expert in the field - @Aileen Miziolek, a fellow ORSC Coach (Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching) and a consultant at the @Family Business Consulting Group who joins me from her home in Toronto, Canada.

In this episode Aileen and I swap stories and talk about
- the appeal of working with families in business
- the unique challenges of coaching family teams
- Aileen's concept of the Learning Family
- working with Founders and intergenerational dynamics
- the potency of a Relationship Systems Coaching approach
- insights for Team Coaches curious to explore working in this arena

Our conversation begins with Aileen's personal story, which is touching and sets the tone of why this work is so important. Hopefully more Team Coaches will consider jumping into the fray.

You can find more on Aileen Miziolek

https://www.thefbcg.com/miziolek/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aileen-miziolek-b7654220/

123: Aileen Miziolek: Insights and Inspiration for Coaching Family Business Teams

I’m very excited to be joined in this episode on The Team Coaching Zone by Andres Roberts, the founder of the Bio-Leadership Project and co-founder of Way of Nature. Andres’ TEDx talk How Would Nature Change Leadership? – quickly made its way onto the global TED platform within weeks of giving the talk. Andres is on a mission to reinvent leadership to be more like nature. He believes we are at ‘sliding doors’ moment in time, in which humanity has the challenge and the opportunity to rewrite the rules of collective progress in history. He argues rather than battling with the old operating systems, making nature our guide might be the most important innovation of our times. Andres left the world of big organisations early on in his career. He has worked and learnt with elders and teachers from around the world, as well as first class partners in organisational learning and development. Andres works with institutions such as Patagonia, the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Amani Institute.

In episode #124 I begin by asking Andres to share his earliest memories of being in nature. We also venture into:
*What inspired Andres to make leadership and nature his life’s work
*The Bio-Leadership project as a global movement for change
*Three threads woven into the Bio-Leadership philosophy
*How some companies are applying the model to reinvent their future
*How it could inform Team Coaches grappling with a transformation agenda

124: Andres Roberts: What Can Nature Teach Us About Coaching Teams?

In Episode #125 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast I’m joined by a dynamic duo team – Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour, co-authors of Building Top Performing Teams A practical guide to team coaching to improve collaboration and drive organizational success (Kogan Page).
Lucy is Director of Performance Edge and a board member of the UK International Coaching Federation. During her 30 year corporate career Lucy worked at board level and as an HR Director in retail and airlines and led award-winning teams. Paul combines a global client base with practitioner research in human collaboration, team coaching and conflict resolution. His interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. Both Lucy and Paul are lead tutors on Team Coaching at Henley Business School.
In this episode we focus on ways of being as a Team Coach including:
– a framework to explore your Being as a Team Coach
– the importance of contracting as a means to unleashing creativity
– tools to bring out the collective wisdom of teams
– how to get beyond your own story and self-limiting mindset
– discovering your signature as a Team Coach
Find out more on Lucy and Paul here:
Lucy linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson
Paul linkedin.com/in/pauljbarbour
Find Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success (Kogan Page, January 2021). on Amazon, Google Books and Apple Books.

125: Lucy Widdowson and Paul J. Barbour: Building Top Performing Teams

Delighted to be joined in this episode by Joel DiGirolamo, Director of Coaching Science for the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Joel leads the organization’s efforts to develop, curate and disseminate information around the science of coaching, and most recently the publication of the Team Coaching Competencies.

Joel shares what inspired this groundbreaking research and gives us insight into the extensive and rigorous process the ICF conducted to realise a framework with twenty-nine team coaching competencies. In this episode Joel shares the definition of team coaching versus other forms of team development. We also talk about why this work matters now, accreditation and next steps.

For listeners who enjoy personal stories, Joel and I also share our passion for ashtanga yoga and the power it has had in advancing our practice as team coaches.

126: Joel DiGirolamo: The Story Behind the ICF Team Coaching Competencies

I am delighted to share this latest Episode #127 of the Team Coaching Zone in which I interview Linda Berlot, CEO of Berlot Group in Dubai. In this episode we explore what is it like coaching C-Suite leaders as a team? What golden nuggets would you want to have as a team coach walking into this arena for the first time? Especially coaching a multicultural leadership team?

Linda and her colleagues at Berlot Group provide professional and expert team coaching solutions to C-Suite leadership teams across the Middle East, and Internationally. Linda is also a CRRGlobal partner - and owner of the ACTP coach training school licensed to deliver ICF accredited ORSC Coaching core curriculum programs in the region.

Other aspects of team coaching we explore are:
- Coaching a leadership team as a system
- Helping leaders become more Relationship Systems intelligent
- Linda's litmus test for coaching with a worldview

You can reach Linda Berlot here:
www.berlotgroup.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-berlot-pcc-orscc-1aaa387/

127: Linda Berlot: Coaching Across Cultures in the C-Suite

TCZ Podcast Episode #128: Alison Hodge: Journey into Team Coaching Supervision

I'm delighted to introduce Dr Alison Hodge to you listeners in this first of two episodes on team coaching supervision. Alison has been supervising Executive Coaches and OD/HR consultants for more than 21 years in Australia, South East Asia, the United States, Europe and the UK, both individually and in groups. She is a senior faculty member with the Coaching Supervision Academy responsible for curriculum and design, and published author on supervising team coaches. More recently Alison has created a map that captures the complexity of the multi facets of team coaching. She is also an accredited Executive Coach and brings a wealth of experience as a practitioner in her own right.

In this conversation we explore
- how to characterise team coaching supervision
- what the process involves
- tips for team coaches considering becoming a supervisor
- the distinction between team and group dynamics
- mapping the territory of team coaching

In episode #129 we will journey deeper into the territory of team coaching.

Find more on Dr Alison Hodge and her work:

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-hodge/
Twitter: alisonhodgecom
Website: https://alisonhodge.com/mapping-the-complex-territory-of-team-coaching-and-supervision/
PDF of the Mapping Team Coaching Paper:
https://alisonhodge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mapping-team-coaching-august-20.pdf

Published chapters

“Guidelines for team coaching supervision” (Hodge & Clutterbuck) In Birch, Jo & Welch, Peter (Eds) (2019) Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes Routledge, Abingdon pp 161-175
“Supervising team coaches: working with complexity at a distance” (Hodge & Clutterbuck) In Clutterbuck, Gannon, Hayes, Iordanou, Lowe and Mackie (Eds) (2019) The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching Routledge Abingdon pp 331-342

Alison Hodge: Journey Into Team Coaching

Krister Lowe, PhD is an Organizational Psychologist, a Leadership and Team Coach, and the Host of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. Lowe is a specialist in team coaching, conflict resolution and performance management and has more than fifteen years of experience consulting to diverse organizations in more than 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. His coaching, consulting, facilitation and training interventions have reached more than 20,000 people globally. He has expertise in a number of sectors including: international organizations, professional services, financial services, foundations, pharmaceuticals and education. Krister holds both a Master of Arts Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. He has completed a number of additional training and certification programs including the Coaches Training Institute Coach Training Program; the Team Advantage Team Coach Training Program; the Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the ICCCR at Columbia University; New York State Mediation Certification; NBI Thinking Preferences Certification; and the LeaderNation 360 Feedback Certification.