Team Coaching

What can sailing on a tall ship teach us about increasing our leadership agility and building high performing teams? How can we as coaches and team coaches challenge both ourselves as well as our clients to bring more wholeness and purpose into modern organizations? Would reconnecting more closely with nature reinvigorate individual, team and organizational learning and performance and take us to new levels? Tune in to this week's episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these and other compelling questions.

In this episode, host Dr. Krister Lowe is joined by two colleagues and friends Eric Kohner--a master coach, a senior faculty member at the Coaches Training Institute and a pioneer in coach training and leadership development--and Pim Harder--an individual, team and systems coach who has been a pioneer in bringing coaching to the education and law enforcement sectors in the Netherlands.

On the show Eric, Pim and Krister share stories, insights and lessons learned from The Nautilus Experience--a recent leadership and team coach training program that they facilitated on the Wylde Swan tall ship as part of the England to Portugal leg of the 2017 Transatlantic Tall Ships Race and Regatta. Themes explored in the episode include: 1) Eric, Pim and Krister's 1-year journey in becoming a team and conceiving and delivering The Nautilus Program; 2) challenging the leadership and team coaching industry to engage the full human being through the 5 Knowledge Center framework including the Head (Reason), Heart (Emotion), Gut (Intuition), Groin (Passion), and Hands (Action); 3) the role of Nature as a 6th and unifying Knowledge Center; 3) stories of delivering the program on the Wylde Swan tall ship over the course of 2 weeks; 4) the story of how the program became called "The Nautilus Experience"; 5) insights about going through the stages of Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing as both a facilitation team as well as a learning community; and more. The Guys share more about the future of The Nautilus Experience as well as resources where listeners can learn more: www.TeamCoachingZone.com/Nautilus

Tune in and get inspired to take your team coaching practice to the next level!

Exploring the Art & Science of Team Coaching

077: The Nautilus Experience: A LeaderSHIP & Team Coaching Voyage on the High Seas

Living by the Laws of Creation

Could there really be a single misunderstanding of how creation works that keeps us from what we want? Dominic has been coaching for eleven years, and in this extended episode shares how he has created a very successful coaching practice, without plans or complex strategies, by simply using what appear to be the laws of creation.

Here’s a little more about Dominic:

Dominic Scaffidi’s purpose is to “awaken greatness.”  As a certified executive coach, he fulfils this purpose by partnering with individuals to point them back toward the unlimited potential and possibility of who they really are. By accessing their own innate wisdom, clients are supported to take on important professional and personal goals.  

In 2008, following a 20-year corporate career, Dominic founded HR Possibilities to provide three core services:  
1) Individual Executive Coaching for senior leaders, entrepreneurs and high performing individuals.
2) Team Coaching for senior executive teams 
3) Training for leaders and people managers to learn “how to be a Great Coach rather than a good boss.”

Dominic has worked with leading edge, global organizations across a variety of industries. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed through the International Coach Federation and has been awarded two Prism awards for excellence in coaching within organizations. He is also grounded in the Three Principles and certified as a transformative coach through Michael Neill’s coach academy.

You can find out more about Dominic at
https://www.hrpossibilities.com
and
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominicscaffidi

The Coaching Life Podcast

067 Dominic Scaffidi - Living by the Laws of Creation

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

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

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

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.