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Great teams don’t happen by chance – they’re built through strong leadership, clear communication and a culture of trust and collaboration. Whether you’re a coach, manager, or team leader, mastering the art of team coaching can make all the difference in driving performance and fostering a positive work environment. To help you sharpen your skills and lead your team to success, here are five books on effective team coaching. These books offer valuable insights, practical strategies and real-world examples from experienced leaders and coaches. No matter where you are in your coaching journey, these resources will equip you with the tools you need to inspire, guide and elevate your team.
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In Mastering the Art of Team Coaching (Second Edition), Georgina Woudstra presents a fresh and adaptable approach to team coaching, emphasising emergent coaching over rigid, fixed models. She argues that in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, traditional coaching frameworks can be too limiting. Instead, she offers a dynamic method that helps coaches navigate real-world team development with flexibility and confidence. A central theme of the book is the stages of team development and maturity. Woudstra provides insights into how teams evolve and how coaches can effectively guide them through different phases. Rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach, she encourages coaches to act as facilitators, helping teams unlock their potential through tailored interventions. This allows for deeper engagement and more sustainable growth. The book also introduces four essential competencies that every team coach should develop. Confidence enables coaches to handle challenging situations with ease. Competence ensures that interventions are both effective and efficient. Coherence helps integrate various coaching tools and concepts into a unified, strategic approach. Finally, Congruence allows coaches to develop a style that is authentic and aligned with their values while also being impactful for their clients. This second edition builds on Woudstra’s original work by refining her frameworks and adding new chapters that address the evolving challenges of team coaching. With its practical guidance, real-world applications and adaptable strategies, this book is a valuable resource for both new and experienced coaches looking to help teams thrive in an unpredictable world.
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Monica Jonsson’s The Complete Corporate Coaching Toolkit is a practical guide for professional coaches and corporate leaders, offering a structured collection of tools to develop essential leadership and coaching skills. Based on over 15,000 hours of coaching experience, the book focuses on modern, 21st-century leadership, emphasising adaptability, emotional intelligence and strategic influence. The toolkit is structured around seven key skill areas: Leadership, which provides strategies for effective and forward-thinking leadership; Effective Communication, offering techniques for public speaking, difficult conversations and persuasive presentations; and Emotional Intelligence, which focuses on self-awareness, emotional regulation and empathy. It also covers Stakeholder Management, guiding leaders in building strong professional relationships; Influencing and Negotiation, providing techniques for persuasion and conflict resolution; Personal Efficiency and Effectiveness, with time management and prioritisation strategies; and Life Balance, emphasising well-being and stress management. This revised 2025 edition refines Jonsson’s proven methodology, making it a go-to resource for both corporate coaches and executives looking to enhance their soft skills. Whether used in one-on-one coaching sessions or as a self-coaching tool, this book provides practical, immediately applicable strategies to improve leadership effectiveness and professional success.
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Building Top-Performing Teams by Lucy Widdowson & Paul J Barbour explores how businesses can achieve success by focusing on team collaboration rather than just optimising processes or cutting costs. The book emphasises that high-performing teams - and teams of teams - are the key to unlocking business potential. Designed for leaders, HR professionals, coaches and managers, this practical guide provides over 40 tools for improving team dynamics in both virtual and in-person settings. It covers essential strategies for motivating, developing, engaging and rewarding teams with diverse experience levels and priorities, ensuring they work together toward outstanding business success. The book offers guidance on fostering team-based work rather than individual-focused processes, managing internal conflicts, and ensuring teams are purpose-driven and aligned with business goals. Each chapter includes diagnostic questions and reflective exercises, helping readers apply team development techniques directly to their own organisations. Drawing from the authors’ experience with major organisations like BBC, John Lewis, KPMG, Britvic, the NHS and BMW, this book is an essential resource for anyone looking to enhance collaboration, drive engagement and improve overall business performance through effective team management.
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Coaching the Team at Work is the result of over 20 years of research with practicing team coaches and major corporations across the globe. The book emphasises that in today’s complex and constantly evolving business environment, teams can only succeed if they are able to adapt frequently. However, for teams to adapt effectively, they must have a clear understanding of their internal and external systems and how these systems either contribute to or hinder their performance. The revised edition explores six critical aspects of team function that are essential for optimal performance. These include Purpose and Motivation, which focuses on understanding the team’s core mission and driving factors; Systems and Processes Relating to External Stakeholders, which examines how teams manage their relationships with external parties. and Relationships within the Team, which looks at the dynamics and interactions between team members. It also covers Systems and Processes Relating to Internal Functions, such as decision-making and quality control; Learning, which explores how the team adapts to keep up with changes in the business environment, and Leadership, which delves into how leadership functions are exercised within the team. The book argues that when these six aspects are aligned, teams can perform at their highest potential. However, when one or more of these aspects are malfunctioning or out of sync, it leads to underperformance. By understanding these interconnected dynamics, Coaching the Team at Work helps team coaches develop the necessary skills to support teams in improving their collaboration and developing more effective ways of working together.
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Coaching International Teams by Alexandra Morgan is a practical guide for coaches and leaders working with international teams, offering solutions to common communication challenges that often arise in multicultural settings. The book addresses those moments when teams struggle to communicate effectively, even when the reasons for the breakdowns are unclear. It provides insight into the hidden causes of communication issues in international teams and offers actionable strategies to overcome them. The book is built around the five building blocks of inclusion in international teams, a model developed by Dr. Alexandra Morgan based on her research. These building blocks help leaders and coaches improve communication, ensure all team members have a voice, and foster a more inclusive environment. With this book, coaches and leaders will learn how to improve understanding and reduce miscommunication within teams. They'll also discover how to ensure all team members have a voice, fostering a sense of inclusion, and address negative emotions that may arise in international team settings and provide ways to alleviate them. Leaders will also find out how to leverage cultural differences to enhance collaboration rather than allowing them to create division. This book is essential reading for international coaches, managers and leaders, as well as students of coaching. By improving intercultural awareness and avoiding common linguistic mistakes, readers will learn how to harness the diversity of international teams to drive productivity and collaboration.
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In Mastering the Art of Team Coaching (Second Edition), Georgina Woudstra presents a fresh and adaptable approach to team coaching, emphasising emergent coaching over rigid, fixed models. She argues that in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, traditional coaching frameworks can be too limiting. Instead, she offers a dynamic method that helps coaches navigate real-world team development with flexibility and confidence. A central theme of the book is the stages of team development and maturity. Woudstra provides insights into how teams evolve and how coaches can effectively guide them through different phases. Rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach, she encourages coaches to act as facilitators, helping teams unlock their potential through tailored interventions. This allows for deeper engagement and more sustainable growth. The book also introduces four essential competencies that every team coach should develop. Confidence enables coaches to handle challenging situations with ease. Competence ensures that interventions are both effective and efficient. Coherence helps integrate various coaching tools and concepts into a unified, strategic approach. Finally, Congruence allows coaches to develop a style that is authentic and aligned with their values while also being impactful for their clients. This second edition builds on Woudstra’s original work by refining her frameworks and adding new chapters that address the evolving challenges of team coaching. With its practical guidance, real-world applications and adaptable strategies, this book is a valuable resource for both new and experienced coaches looking to help teams thrive in an unpredictable world.
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Monica Jonsson’s The Complete Corporate Coaching Toolkit is a practical guide for professional coaches and corporate leaders, offering a structured collection of tools to develop essential leadership and coaching skills. Based on over 15,000 hours of coaching experience, the book focuses on modern, 21st-century leadership, emphasising adaptability, emotional intelligence and strategic influence. The toolkit is structured around seven key skill areas: Leadership, which provides strategies for effective and forward-thinking leadership; Effective Communication, offering techniques for public speaking, difficult conversations and persuasive presentations; and Emotional Intelligence, which focuses on self-awareness, emotional regulation and empathy. It also covers Stakeholder Management, guiding leaders in building strong professional relationships; Influencing and Negotiation, providing techniques for persuasion and conflict resolution; Personal Efficiency and Effectiveness, with time management and prioritisation strategies; and Life Balance, emphasising well-being and stress management. This revised 2025 edition refines Jonsson’s proven methodology, making it a go-to resource for both corporate coaches and executives looking to enhance their soft skills. Whether used in one-on-one coaching sessions or as a self-coaching tool, this book provides practical, immediately applicable strategies to improve leadership effectiveness and professional success.
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Building Top-Performing Teams by Lucy Widdowson & Paul J Barbour explores how businesses can achieve success by focusing on team collaboration rather than just optimising processes or cutting costs. The book emphasises that high-performing teams - and teams of teams - are the key to unlocking business potential. Designed for leaders, HR professionals, coaches and managers, this practical guide provides over 40 tools for improving team dynamics in both virtual and in-person settings. It covers essential strategies for motivating, developing, engaging and rewarding teams with diverse experience levels and priorities, ensuring they work together toward outstanding business success. The book offers guidance on fostering team-based work rather than individual-focused processes, managing internal conflicts, and ensuring teams are purpose-driven and aligned with business goals. Each chapter includes diagnostic questions and reflective exercises, helping readers apply team development techniques directly to their own organisations. Drawing from the authors’ experience with major organisations like BBC, John Lewis, KPMG, Britvic, the NHS and BMW, this book is an essential resource for anyone looking to enhance collaboration, drive engagement and improve overall business performance through effective team management.
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Coaching the Team at Work is the result of over 20 years of research with practicing team coaches and major corporations across the globe. The book emphasises that in today’s complex and constantly evolving business environment, teams can only succeed if they are able to adapt frequently. However, for teams to adapt effectively, they must have a clear understanding of their internal and external systems and how these systems either contribute to or hinder their performance. The revised edition explores six critical aspects of team function that are essential for optimal performance. These include Purpose and Motivation, which focuses on understanding the team’s core mission and driving factors; Systems and Processes Relating to External Stakeholders, which examines how teams manage their relationships with external parties. and Relationships within the Team, which looks at the dynamics and interactions between team members. It also covers Systems and Processes Relating to Internal Functions, such as decision-making and quality control; Learning, which explores how the team adapts to keep up with changes in the business environment, and Leadership, which delves into how leadership functions are exercised within the team. The book argues that when these six aspects are aligned, teams can perform at their highest potential. However, when one or more of these aspects are malfunctioning or out of sync, it leads to underperformance. By understanding these interconnected dynamics, Coaching the Team at Work helps team coaches develop the necessary skills to support teams in improving their collaboration and developing more effective ways of working together.
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Coaching International Teams by Alexandra Morgan is a practical guide for coaches and leaders working with international teams, offering solutions to common communication challenges that often arise in multicultural settings. The book addresses those moments when teams struggle to communicate effectively, even when the reasons for the breakdowns are unclear. It provides insight into the hidden causes of communication issues in international teams and offers actionable strategies to overcome them. The book is built around the five building blocks of inclusion in international teams, a model developed by Dr. Alexandra Morgan based on her research. These building blocks help leaders and coaches improve communication, ensure all team members have a voice, and foster a more inclusive environment. With this book, coaches and leaders will learn how to improve understanding and reduce miscommunication within teams. They'll also discover how to ensure all team members have a voice, fostering a sense of inclusion, and address negative emotions that may arise in international team settings and provide ways to alleviate them. Leaders will also find out how to leverage cultural differences to enhance collaboration rather than allowing them to create division. This book is essential reading for international coaches, managers and leaders, as well as students of coaching. By improving intercultural awareness and avoiding common linguistic mistakes, readers will learn how to harness the diversity of international teams to drive productivity and collaboration.
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