Intact Team Training, Facilitation & Coaching
Understanding What Your Team Needs To Be Successful
What does my team need?
Team training, facilitation, or team coaching?
A Quick Guide
- Team Training is right for you when you seek to strengthen and teach specific skills – such as leadership skills, team working skills, or communication skills.
- Facilitation is helpful when you wish to achieve specific and concrete outcomes that you already know you want – such as resolving a pre-existing conflict, or agreeing on a goal or a detailed path towards a goal. Team coaching is effective when you wish to empower your team and increase their awareness of themselves. This includes their conception of themselves as a group, their group dynamic, their strengths, their blind-spots and their challenges. It is a more open approach that is appropriate when you do not necessarily know what your team needs to thrive. Team coaches work with whatever emerges.
- Team coaching can also be complemented with more specific training workshops if skill shortages show up as something that is holding your team back in the process.
We deepen self-and team-knowledge and show you how to create supportive environments that truly allow teams to thrive. We explore key features of high performing teams and how to embed the conditions for alignment, continuous learning, resilience and adaptability into organisational cultures. While we suggest a general sequence and programme structure, our approach remains flexible and highly responsive to the particular needs of our client at any given time.
What Is Performance Catalyst Team Coaching?
Our team coaching approach uses skilful analytic listening and exploratory questions to dramatically raise your shared understanding of your strengths, challenges, and goals. All teams have blind-spots. Sometimes, specific ways of thinking about ourselves in relation to others and the world around us may not be productive. Our team coaching challenges the stories you are telling with a compassionate outside perspective that helps you shift mindsets and see yourselves, your team members and your challenges from a different angle. By assisting your team to order and crystalize your thoughts, the approach provides valuable clarity.
Performance Catalyst team coaching is not just about awareness-raising, though. It is designed to produce actionable insights. It is future-oriented and seeks to sharpen and hone your self-understanding with a view to translating this new understanding into concrete actions and behaviours. We help you build these bridges between insight and action.
Although team coaches help you to develop smart working and living strategies and to set goals for your future, this type of coaching is less about giving advice. Rather, it is about guiding you to finding unique personal, team and organisational answers to your most pressing questions. Team coaching empowers you confidently to develop precisely the strategies and solutions that are right for you, and that are aligned with your deepest values. It produces lasting mindset shifts and maximizes your capacity to come up with creative
responses to your challenges.
Why Should You Invest In Team Coaching?
All wise companies facilitate the development of their teams. They understand that they depend on the efficiency and productivity of their teams, as these drive the success of their organisations. Team coaching is one of the most powerful ways to progress effective results and empower your teams. It enables key talent, collectively, to make wiser leadership decisions and to communicate more effectively.
High challenge needs to be accompanied by high support. Team coaching is, in essence, a particularly potent way of tailor-made learning. Team coaching empowers your talent better to lead, support and inspire their people. Only self-aware teams can be great teams. Self-aware leaders act less to bolster their own egos and status but seek to do what is right for the company and their people. The teams we work with will truly understand their own strengths and how to maximize them. They will also know their own blind spots and how to take action to address them. They waste far less energies on inner psychological and interpersonal battles. By avoiding unnecessary ‘social pain’ and conflict, they are able to project their positive energy outwards – to helping each other and towards the mission and purpose of their organisations.
What do our clients say about Intact Team Training, Facilitation & Coaching?
“Will supported me facilitating a sensitive team conversation around trust. Will had run a team diagnostic and I had asked him to present the data to the team. I’m a conflict mediator by trade & had envisioned Will would talk through his findings then I’d need to step in to facilitate due to possible tensions in the team sparking. I had no need to lift a finger. Will’s facilitation was outstanding. Tensions certainly did spark – and Will handled the issues in the room with grace. He gave space to people to think and express their views, he challenged people to speak honestly, he listened without judgement and helped people get clear on their views, and he then went on to help the team build bridges with one another. Really skilled facilitation. I’d recommend Will without hesitation.”
“Just finished a 3-days insightful training led by Will Jefferson, a former professional cricketer turned into a leadership and business coach! His transition from the cricket field to the business world is nothing short of inspiring. Will’s unique blend of professional sports experience, business acumen, and a deep understanding of the human performance made the training session both enlightening and engaging. His journey is a reminder that it is never too late to reinvent ourselves and pursue new paths, mirroring my own career switch.”
Thank you for facilitating the last couple of strategy planning days so well. Everyone has commented how useful they were. The stewarding of us and our thoughts was excellent!
“Will discussed topics in a direct and engaging way. The way he held the sessions was also dynamic and allowed us to apply what we were discussing as well as giving us opportunities to reflect on what we discussed.”
“Our company has been lucky enough to engage the services of Will Jefferson from Performance Catalyst for three workshops, before and after the pandemic. We have focused our workshops around our team culture, core values and progressing the business from good to great. Will leads the sessions extremely well with a calm manner and allows everyone to have a voice. We will continue to use Will to further enhance our organisation and strengthen our culture and team ethos.”
“The combined team workshops coupled with PC’s simply brilliant coaches has brought new depth and stability to our senior teams at a time of significant change and uncertainty. The programme has allowed our senior managers to reflect, share and develop their thinking in a way we had not previously thought possible. At every step along the way Will & his team have supported all participants and assisted the company’s investment into the process to get the best and most fitting result for the organisation.”