COACHING
Team Building Glossary
Team Building — Coaching
Information on Coaching
Individuals and teams need feedback and coaching. Coaches
provide information, insight, feedback, encouragement, instruction, and positive reinforcement. Coaches
help people practice, correct, and improve performance. Effective coaching requires knowledge of the individual, knowledge of the team,
and knowledge of the environment, including what is required and
what limitations or other hindrances exist.
Coaching is a
huge field. There are all kinds of coaches for activities
ranging across sports, the arts, and work of countless types.
A little-understood type of coach is the one internal to
a team. Any member of the team can be a
coach at a particular time, depending on what skills, knowledge,
or abilities the team member has relative to what the
team needs at that moment. It is not common to
have rotating coaches, or for the right coach to emerge
as needed, because many teams are comfortable only with coaching provided by individuals outside of the team. This
often has to do with formal authority and more traditional
mindsets where individuals are accustomed to "reporting up" and taking
instruction from superiors, as opposed to working collaboratively in more
democratic, egalitarian fashion.
Other topics in our resources on Team Building related to Coaching include:
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