Team coaching

Partnering with teams to unleash their collective power, purpose and potential.

Team Coaching with Soulful Systems

Team coaching supports teams to strengthen how they work together - helping them improve their communication, collaboration, decision making, relationships and collective performance.

Where team facilitation often focuses on creating productive and impactful outputs or experiences (for example generating ideas, solving a specific challenge, or coming together around an away day), team coaching focuses on the ongoing development of the team itself - helping it evolve into a more connected, aligned and effective version of itself.

Team coaching creates space for teams to reflect on how they operate - exploring their patterns, dynamics, relationships and ways of working. Through thoughtful dialogue, reflection, and experimentation, teams develop new awareness and discover more effective ways of working together.

The result is a team that is better equipped to navigate challenges, build on its strengths, and continue learning and adapting beyond the coaching engagement.

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When Team Coaching can help

New teams
Supporting teams to build strong foundations by exploring purpose, values, ways of working, relationships and communication – creating clarity, cohesion and momentum from the start.

Existing teams navigating change or challenge
Helping teams work through challenges such as changing roles, evolving priorities, interpersonal friction, communication difficulties, performance pressures or periods of uncertainty.

Teams looking to grow and evolve
Creating space for already effective teams to reflect, strengthen their collaboration and prepare for new or bigger challenges.

Team transitions or endings
Supporting teams to reflect, celebrate achievements, capture learning and bring a meaningful close to a chapter of their work.

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Our Approach

The Team Coaching Journey:

Because team coaching is about supporting lasting change in the way a team works together, it is designed as a journey over time – similar to individual coaching. The journey is co-created with the team and can be adapted as needs evolve. Below are some typical stages that may be part of the process, with built-in review points to ensure the work continues to feel valuable, relevant, and productive. Some stages can also work as stand alone sessions.

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More about the Team Coaching journey:

Team engagement session

An opportunity for the team and coaches to meet, explore expectations and questions, and gauge whether there is a good fit and the readiness and commitment to proceed.

Team Discovery

A collaborative exploration to help the team build awareness of how it currently works and identify growth opportunities.

Rather than using assessment tools that define the team from the outside, we prefer a coaching approach where the team creates its own ‘Team Selfie’ and uses it as a foundation for collective reflection and development.

1-1 interviews can also be a helpful part of the Discovery process, allowing each team member time for personal reflection to consider their views, perspectives, and sense of the team's challenges and opportunities.

Team Launch

Building on insights and ideas generated by the Team Discovery process, the Team Launch is a space to bring the team together, strengthen connection and alignment, and establish foundations for effective collaboration.

This may include exploring:

• Team purpose and shared direction

• Values

• Ways of working

• Communication agreements

• Learning and development goals

The outputs can be captured in a team charter: a living document that the team can review, update, and refer to along their coaching journey and beyond, helping guide their actions and decisions.

Coaching sessions

Team coaching sessions typically take place every four to six weeks and might be more frequent for teams going through intense or critical stages. Session topics can be informed by the insights gained in the Discovery and Launch phase, as well as anything alive and relevant for the team, such as:

• Progressing team development goals

• Embedding agreed ways of working

• Exploring emerging team dynamics

• Improving communication and collaboration

• Reflecting on learning and achievements

Live-action coaching

Coaches join the team in its normal working environment, observing and (where useful) intervening to bring awareness to team dynamics and support real-time learning.