From Coaching Individuals to Coaching Teams: COACHING.UP Has Launched Its 8th Cohort!
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A strong team is more than a collection of strong professionals. Even when every team member has experience, expertise, and their own motivation, a team needs a shared vision, meaningful dialogue, the ability to reach agreements, and a willingness to take collective responsibility for results.
At COACHING.UP, the 8th cohort of the «Professional International-Level Team Coach» program has begun its training. This is another step in the development of a professional coaching community that aims to work not only with individual clients, but also with teams and organizational systems.
In team coaching, the focus shifts from the individual participant to the interactions between people and the team as a whole. The coach explores with the team what is happening «between» people: how they communicate, how they make decisions, how they distribute responsibility, how they navigate conflict, and how capable they are of remaining a unified system during times of change.
That is why a team coach needs more than simply a strong command of individual coaching tools. They need to understand team dynamics, systems thinking, the specifics of contracting with multiple stakeholders, and how to hold the interests of the entire team at the same time. These are precisely the competencies that participants in the 8th cohort begin developing from the very first modules.
The training is built around a combination of knowledge, practice, and professional reflection. Participants explore the differences between individual, group, and team coaching, become familiar with team development models, and learn to work with different stages in a team’s development.
An important part of the program is practice: demonstration team coaching sessions, case analysis, work with contracting, preparation for interaction with the client, and the development of an individual approach to a team coaching project.
The support of mentors and supervisors also plays an important role, because a coach’s professional growth happens not only through acquiring new information, but also through practice, observation, feedback, and awareness of their own professional decisions.
Who Is the Program For?
For coaches who want to expand their practice and work with business teams.
For leaders, HR professionals, and consultants who want to add a coaching approach to their professional toolkit.
For those who feel that the next stage of their development is moving from working with an individual person to working with a system.
The program is accredited by the ICF at the AATC level and is built in accordance with international professional and ethical principles. There are no ready-made recipes for teams here - instead, there is structure, professional presence, partnership, practice, and deep exploration of team reality.
Congratulations to the participants of the 8th cohort on the start of their training! May this professional journey help you see team coaching from a new perspective, expand your own practice, and become a partner to teams that aspire not only to work together, but also to grow and achieve more together.