Leadership Intelligence
Optimizing Productivity and Efficiency through Team Coaching

Over the past few years, companies have drifted from personalized coaching with individual leaders and executives toward ‘team coaching’. This shift can be attributed to executives’ growing acknowledgement of improving leadership abilities within team dynamics. Leadership Intelligence, an executive, team coaching, and management consulting company, believes that cohesive teams make a significant difference to a company’s success and overall wellbeing. To this end, the firm offers team coaching services to improve team performance.

Leadership Intelligence utilizes a proven team coaching approach to elevate the team’s and each member’s performance and enhance organization’s productivity.

“Team coaching focuses on helping the team expand its self-awareness and deepen understanding of its dynamics, behaviour, and work habits,” says Lynn Bennett, president of Leadership Intelligence.

In contrast to the traditional approach, Leadership Intelligence avoids typical team-building exercises and focuses on working in ‘real time’ work with leaders and their teams. This ‘real-time’ strategy addresses current issues to achieve tangible results. Coaching occurs in the workplace, allowing the coach to observe the team’s leader and team’s natural dynamics. The coach shares observations and insights highlighting collective strengths and challenges. This feedback deepens team self-awareness, enabling them to tackle and resolve ongoing workplace issues.

Each team coaching engagement begins with an evaluation. During this process, the coach employs the Corentus’ Team Framework©, which consists of three fundamental tools—Team Wheel©, Team Operating Mode©, and Team Life Cycle©.

The Team Wheel© identifies the unique factors contributing to a team’s effectiveness, the Team Operating Mode© reveals the team’s current and desired operating modes. In addition, the Team Life Cycle© identifies the team member’s evolving needs as they progress through various developmental stages to becoming fully contributing members. Partnering with the team coach, these tools empower team leaders and members to observe and reflect on their current strengths and vulnerabilities, identify gaps, formulate impactful development plans, and subsequently convert insights into actionable strategies.

The efficacy of Leadership Intelligence’s approach to team coaching can be illustrated by a notable occurrence where the firm’s president conducted a coaching session with a team that had issues achieving a specific outcome due to budget constraints. To elaborate, a team member required the assistance of her colleagues in executing a specific task. Team members encountered difficulty executing the assigned task due to a lack of clarity in the initial message. According to the coach, the requester’s nuanced language made it difficult for the team members to comprehend her instructions, the importance and urgency of the request. Following the coach’s intervention, the team member successfully conveyed her needs clearly providing more fulsome requirements.

Leadership Intelligence acknowledges the success of team coaching is greatly dependent on the leader’s mindset and outlook. Leaders must demonstrate a genuine commitment to the coaching process and be willing to learn from their experiences as leader and team member. Through team coaching clients are able to align on the team’s common goals, clarify roles and decision making, enhance collaboration, and foster an environment of accountability all well deepening their understanding of team dynamics.