On-going Team Coaching

In a typical intervention, once the retreat process has been completed the coach looks for a variety of ways to help the team integrate what it has learned into its everyday behavior and practices. In fact, the coach facilitator models for the team the behaviors that contribute to effective teaming, and works alongside the team as it practices old skills and then learns new ones. In the most literal sense, this is what is meant by “teamwork.”

This is how the ongoing coaching works. The coach agrees to meet with the team on a regular, periodic basis, usually about once a month. The coach actively participates in these meetings and helps team members honestly assess progress toward meeting goals, regularly assessing strengths and weaknesses and then taking appropriate actions. Quite often the role of the coach is to surface “undiscussables,” confront differences, deal with stylistic problems, give very honest feedback.

Over time, the team members themselves begin to assimilate and take on the role of the coach facilitator. The role of the coach facilitator accordingly begins to diminish, until all parties agree that the coaching intervention has come to a natural end.

This process may run anywhere from six to eighteen months.


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