So, I’m not a “pure” team coach. Sorry about that.

I don’t have any issue with Team Coaching as a field, nor its practices or practitioners. In actual fact, some of my best friends are team coaches.

(That was a joke.)

I employ a great many of the techniques I’ve formally studied with master team coaches, always to profound effect. And some of the best moments of team-level transformation I’ve ever been involved with have come as a result of a predominantly team coaching approach.

But not in isolation to other disciplines. Not as THE alternative to (for example) training and facilitation. And not because team coaching creates sustainable change where training and facilitation does not, cannot, will not.

This implication is my least favourite thing about the current messaging of Team Coaching: “training and facilitation don’t work; team coaching does.”

Nonsense. It all works – assuming good design, application and delivery.

And it’s not an either/or – I would say it’s exactly the opposite, having never myself met a team that didn’t need it all. Training. Facilitation. Coaching.

If we want to support a team to achieve all (and more) of which it is capable, we need to bring it ALL: training AND facilitation AND team coaching.

Honk your horn if you agree. 📢

If you’re looking for a pure team coach, I’m not your person. If you want someone who’ll bring it all, impurities-be-damned, you’re in the right place.