Episode 53: Team Coaching: How to help teams have the conversations they need to have with Steph Clarke
In a perfect world, we would be working alongside newly formed teams, newly promoted managers and helping to set the scene, create a team vision, purpose and values and define ways of working. The reality is, we’re usually called in when things are either starting to crack in a team environment.
And it can be tricky trying to scramble together, and figure out what you’re going to do to help a team at this stage, and that’s why I’m talking to today’s guest. Her name is Steph Clarke and if you’ve been listening to this show for a while, you would have heard my conversation with her back in Episode 33.
As a team coach and facilitator, Steph creates more meaningful moments in teams to help them meet their collective potential. She creates an environment for teams to have the conversations they need to, and it involves going beyond the leadership retreat or the strategy day as she work with the team ‘in situ’ as they tackle the real work in real time.
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On this episode you’ll learn:
Some key differences between team coaching and facilitation
The importance of creating a shared language and vocabularly, to help individuals and teams articulate what’s required to grow together
Why team chaos is useful (and how it can help when teams work through chaos, collectively)
The questions Steph uses to help team’s find their purpose (and explore why it matters)
What people really mean when they say they ‘need to hold someone accountable’
Why it’s important for facilitators to notice the dynamics and explore what’s ‘unsaid’ in a workshop
How using visual facilitation (and ditching a powerpoint) can help you use more of the space in a room
About our guest: Steph Clarke
Steph is an accountant turned facilitator and team coach and pommy (that’s a Brit living in Australia for the uninitiated) based in Melbourne.
She loves finding tools, techniques and concepts that are proven and work so she can apply them and share with you and your teams. You’ll find that most of her workshops and facilitation combines the best of leadership theory, team coaching, the actionable science of behaviour change and habit building; along with the real life stories of her and her clients, to set your team up for success in effectively applying the lessons.
Steph hold qualifications and certifications in executive coaching, facilitation, LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) and a variety of diagnostic tools and methodologies. She’s also an experienced facilitator having delivered thousands of hours of training and leadership workshops to audiences all around the world.
When she’s not transforming teams you’ll find her in the pilates studio, in the kitchen, on a plane or hiding somewhere with a podcast, book or a great Spotify playlist.
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