Coaching lends itself very well to working with groups and teams on their performance. Since it's a focus on development and growth, the process of coaching helps the team clearly define where they are and where they need to be. And the coach stays with them on that process so that they can execute the plans with support and bridge the gaps that they're trying to close.

One of the powerful things that coaching will do for a team is facilitate conversations; those sticky conversations that they really don't want to have normally. The conversations the teams never get to, teams avoid actually such as, "What's really working, but more importantly who's not working and who is working harder than they need to be and are we balanced in what we do?" It also allows them to assess themselves, what could they be doing better? What are they leaving on the table? And what are they doing too much of? What do they need to stop doing?

A coach is going to be paramount in facilitating those kinds of conversations that allows the team to really understand how to best communicate with each other and how to get along. Using coach approach in teams and group dynamics is just as powerful as it is with individual coaching. It gets the team very very clear about where their performance needs to be. It unearths the truth about where and why their performance is where it is, and it closes that gap. Coaching for teams is all about increasing the return and the results that the business needs to achieve