Team Development is helpful in a number of cases. At times there are challenges in the team, such as difficulties with individual employees, a sudden increase in the volume of work, or unclear responsibilities. Hidden or open conflicts drain energy, or the team is impacted by pending organizational change. Common challenges in teams are also a lack of commitment, differences in the inclination to take responsibility or a lack of mutual trust. To address these issues, I offer tailored workshops to support teams in finding actionable solutions. If psychological safety is lacking, team members are not able to use their mistakes for learning without fear.
For newly appointed leaders, growing into their role can be a huge challenge. Suddenly, your peers from yesterday are now your "subordinates". And anyway, what could "leading" mean in my particular situation? (This blog post in German summarizes the problem.)
How Team Development works
Although some issues seem to be "trivial" at first sight, many of them are intricately connected to your context, people and culture and therefore not solvable by best practice approaches. To discover this complexity, it is best to involve all stakeholders to find the best solution. Depending on the subject, this can mean coaching the leaders, and/or workshops with the whole team. Sometimes it is sufficient to just provide external facilitation for a workshop or a retrospective. In this way, role conflicts are avoided and all participants can bring in their perspective in an unbiased way. In other cases, team development or team coaching can address the underlying interpersonal issues in the team by asking the relevant questions and provoking helpful interactions.
In my coaching, an important goal is to enable leaders and teams to tackle the challenges also without a coach in the future. Every team is different. That's why I do not promote one specific approach or a hyped explanatory model, but rather try to find out together with you which model/approach could be helpful in your case.
My preferred approach is iterative (agile): We set the big goal or vision and then plan the next step in this desirable direction. Only after the results of this first steps are in, we can decide together on where to go next.