Lauron Buys Coaching

What is Systemic Team Coaching? 

Systemic team coaching (STC) is a process of coaching a team, individually and collectively, over an agreed period of time so that  the team and team members:  

• are aligned with their primary stakeholders’ mandate; 

• are aligned with each other regarding their common purpose, goals, roles, have well-defined tasks and constructive norms;  

• work optimally together so that they exceed expectations;  

• develop collective leadership;  

• engage effectively with their key stakeholders; and  

• jointly transform the business by ensuring that they learn at least as quickly as the change around them is happening

 

Who would benefit from STC? 

• Organisational leadership teams 

• Business unit teams 

• Leaders who are committed to growing as individuals, becoming increasingly more competent, self-aware and conscious • Organisations who want to create a more collaborative, fast learning, adaptive team-based culture

• Organisations who wish to lead cultural change and transformation within their business 

• Organisations who wish to create a coaching culture 

• Organisations and teams who wish to create and execute on a new strategy 

• Teams that are beginning – brand new teams or new beginnings for an established team through a new team project, strategy,  major initiative, fiscal year, or business cycle 

• Teams that are at the midpoint - the approximate midpoint of the team’s work together as a project team, or a functional or  leadership team that is implementing new strategy, initiative, fiscal year, or business cycle 

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Desired outcomes 

• Creation of a collaborative, fast learning, adaptive team-based culture within organisations 

• Improved navigation of complexity 

• Greater conversion of leadership effectiveness into business results 

• Strategy creation and execution processes 

• Culture development across the organisation, in and between teams 

• Leadership learning and development 

• Network and partnership building across the business ecosystem 

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How will organisations and teams benefit from STC? 

• Management of the expectations of all the different stakeholders 

• Increased capacity for working through systemic conflict and restoring trust 

• Improved quality of engagement  

• “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is  so powerful and so rare.” (Patrick Lencioni, 2002) 

• “Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority – and, if done well, a competitive advantage.” (Anderson & Adams, 2016) 

• Teams not only become more effective and high-performing, but create a collaborative, fast learning, adaptive team-based  culture 

• Generative collaboration not only within teams but also between teams across the organisation

• Continual co-creation and development of effective strategy that is owned, engages, and is quickly executed by all parts of the  organisation 

• Acceleration of cultural change, strategic development and transformation 

• Development of collective leadership in an organisation ensuring that all leaders as well as the collective leadership are  learning faster than the world around them is changing 

• Rising above the silos
 

What have some of our clients had to say? 

• "You took a team which was working … and in a period of 3 months turned into a highly focused and efficient unit. You achieved  this by quickly establishing the group dynamics and in a very subtle, but effective manner, got us to adjust our bad behaviours. I  have no doubt in saying that we have moved from being a good team to a great team. What’s more we are having fun doing  business and working together. It is one of the very few times when a consultant has under - promised and over - delivered in my  experience. In fact, during our interactions you felt more like a team member than a consultant. I would have no hesitation in recommending c -business to other organisations.” 

      Dave Rennie 

      MD, Unifeeder, a member of the Grindrod Ltd Group 

• “Thank you for helping us realise our potential and supporting our effort to becoming inspiring leaders and truly great team.  Your dedication to our personal growth has made a positive difference in our lives and its appreciated by us all. Thank you  Lauron and until we meet again” 

      Alexey Atanassov 

      Team Leader – Comair 

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How does STC work? 

Our particular brand of STC combines two powerful, globally recognised and tested coaching methodologies into a three-level process that includes: 

• Systemic team coaching 

• Group coaching of the individual team members for individual and collective development 

• Individual coaching of the team leader and team members to coach the team 

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Traditionally, team coaching has normally focused only on internal aspects of the team, namely creating common or shared goals,  and improving teamwork and the team dynamic. STC includes both internal and external aspects of the team: 

• External 

   o Stakeholder expectations (not only now but in the future) 

   o Stakeholder relationships – connecting with critical stakeholders for the benefit of both 

• Internal 

  o Team tasks – clarifying what is needed to exceed stakeholder expectations  

  o Team relationships – gaining optimum value from the diverse capacities, skills and styles of its team members 

• Internal and External 

  o Core learning – where the team stands back and reflects on its own performance and how it can use its experiences to  enhance its performance in the future.  

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Typically, the process tends to move through three phases: 

1. Diagnostic phase 

  a. Agreeing with the organisation’s sponsor and the team leader exactly what will be done in the phase; 

  b. Meeting with the team to outline the process; 

  c. Collecting the agreed data; 

  d. Holding a discovery workshop with the team at which: 

    i. The data is collated and made sense of; and 

    ii. A game plan is co-created; 

  e. A decision is made whether to proceed with the game plan or not. 

2. Executing and engaging to fulfil the game plan 

3. Review, evaluation and learning.