Team & Group Development Coaching Services in Bristol
Transform your team with expert guidance. Build trust, resolve conflicts, and boost productivity with James O’Halloran’s tailored workshops. Unlock your teams true potential today!
What is Team & Group Development Coaching?
Team and group development coaching is all about helping your team work better together. It’s more than just team-building activities; it’s an in-depth approach that aims to identify and rectify any issues that your team might be facing.
These workshops or coaching sessions provide a space for your team to reflect, make meaningful changes, and reset their approach to work life. It helps your team gain the insights they need to build resilience for long-term success. The goal is to create a high-performing team that can work in collaboration, and contribute to your organisation’s goals.
- Is your team new and struggling to get started?
- Is there a lack of trust holding back collaboration?
- Are conflicts between team members making the work environment tough?
- Are diverse personalities and energies hard to bring together?
If these issues sound familiar, Team & Group Development Coaching can help turn these challenges into opportunities for growth and improved performance. Investing in team development means building a strong, high-performing team that can confidently face future challenges together.
Identifying Common Team Challenges and When to Consider Team Coaching
Teams can often face challenges in the workplace that can hinder performance, collaboration, and overall effectiveness. These challenges can arise in many ways, such as breakdown in communication, reduced productivity, lack of trust, ongoing conflicts, missed deadlines, scope creep and difficulties in managing diverse personalities. These issues can significantly impact your team’s morale and the success of your business if not addresses.
To better understand whether your team might benefit from coaching, consider the following questions:
- Have you noticed a lack of trust among your team members?
- Have any team members shown dissatisfaction or signs of disengagement, such as avoiding meetings or frequent absences?
- Is communication within your team breaking down?
- Have you noticed reduced productivity or low morale among your team members?
- Is your team struggling to meet the goals and objectives?
- Are your team members comfortable voicing their thoughts and opinions in the workplace?
- Are your employees happy and engaged in their roles?
- Do teammates understand each others strengths and weaknesses and can they both utilise the collective strengths and support each other?
If any of these challenges sound familiar, it may be time to consider team and group development coaching. Addressing these issues are crucial to a high performing team, this will also support the individuals to enjoy their roles within the workplace.
How Does Team & Group Development Coaching Help Your Organisation?
There are numerous benefits of Team & Group Development Coaching. This isn’t just limited to the performance of your employees, but extends to all aspects of your business, creating a safe and sustainable culture and optimising for growth.
Some of the key benefits include:
- Clearer Communication: Enable clear and more effective interactions.
- Improved Collaboration: Encourages more efficient teamwork by utilising individual strengths.
- Conflict Resolution: Turns disputes into opportunities for growth.
- Boosted Productivity: Unlocks intrinsic motivation within individuals and aligns with organisational goals.
- Better Alignment: Focuses team efforts on your businesses key priorities.
- Increased Trust and Retention: Builds trust and improves employee satisfaction.
- Improved Well-being: Promotes mental and emotional health by virtue of creating a safe and supportive environment.
- Accountability: Creates an environment of accountability.
I understand that every team, and their dynamics are completely different. And because of this, my sessions are tailored to gain the maximum benefit from each individual, rather than using a templated approach.
Impact on Individuals
We’ve covered how coaching benefits your organisation, but how will it benefit your employees as individuals? My coaching sessions can have a strong personal impact, helping your employees grow and thrive in various ways:
Benefits for Individuals
- Personal Growth: Develops individual skills and self-awareness.
- Increased Confidence: Encourages individuals to contribute more freely.
- Stress Reduction: Creates a healthier work environment.
- Career Development: Provides tools and insights for personal career advancement.
- Improved Relationships: Improves relationships within the team.
- Resilience: Builds the employees capacity to handle challenges and changes.
- Problem-Solving: Improves problem-solving skills and abilities.
- Innovation: Encourages creative thinking and new ideas.
By focusing on these areas, coaching helps to improve your employees performance but also helps them to grow on a more personal level. Each session is unique, providing the maximum benefit for you and your team.
What is Lego Serious Play?
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a facilitation methodology developed at The Lego Group. Its goal is improving creative thinking and communication. People build with Lego bricks 3-dimensional models of their ideas and tell stories about their models. Hence the name “serious play”.
Who is your bad boss?
What is your dream position within your team?
What strengths do you bring to your team?
Have you ever tried to answer these questions out of LEGO? Lego Series Play allows you to find freedom with your answers and step outside and see things from an alternative viewpoint? Lego Series Play is one of the best tools to use to express how we wish to work individually, coming together as a team.
Leading innovators within their industries, such as Google and Nasa, use Lego Series Play, to get the best out of their teams, to enable growth, performance and creativity.
How do my Team & Group Development Coaching Services sessions work?
Through my Team Development coaching, I offer a variety of tailor-made bespoke services to suit your growing company’s needs.
Team Development Workshop ½ Days (on-site)
Team Development Workshop Full Day (on-site)
Team Development Workshop Away Days (on-location)
These workshops are delivered on-site in your offices, to reduce stress and planning, on your end. Half-day workshops usually run between 2-4 hours and will cover a mix of topics (see below).
A full day of workshops, on-site in your offices, with a healthy mix of key areas for team development coaching. Running all day, with a break for lunch, these full-day workshops can be instrumental to the success and growth of your team!
If you are really looking to bring your team together, to help both the individuals and the wider team evolve as one, then Away Days are a great way to create cohesion and receive some invaluable coaching. Away Days are usually hosted somewhere remote in the countryside for a day or more, for you and your team to switch off from work and instead switch on as a team.
The above workshops are all bespoke to your company’s needs – with ‘pick ‘n’ mix’ menu options to choose from – to help develop your team. See below some of the key areas we can bring together for your team to grow and unite:?
Communication
Learning best practices for effective communication across the team, that account for teammates’ preferences, whilst respecting boundaries.
Managing Personalities
Managing the disparity within the team by looking at values and ensuring everyone is heard.
Risk Assessment
Working through the product roadmap and ensuring all risks are considered and mitigated.
Scenario Planning
Through playful scenarios, learning to collaborate as a team with a laser focus on looking into detailed possible scenarios of what could be…
Strategy & Priority
An opportunity to give time to uncover the team’s priorities and work with implementing or creating a strategy.
Strengths
Uncovering and sharing strengths across the team to capitalise on the innate, natural value of individuals and create effective collaboration.
Ways of Working
Exploring day-to-day running of the team, such as frequency of meetings, 1-2-1’s, standups, socials and even how to raise concerns.
Weaknesses
You’re only as strong as your weakest link! Surfacing weaknesses within the team to help everyone come together to negate them.
Ready to Learn More?
Each of the above would be delivered in approx 90 minutes. All of them will bring awareness, understanding and trust.
Each Team Development Workshop is bespoke and tailor-made specifically to suit you and your business’s needs. Through a Discovery Call we will discuss the challenges and opportunities your team is facing, and then build the best workshop to suit.
