Applied Group and Team Coaching

Group and team coaching is a powerful approach for facilitating collective growth, transformation, and performance in professional settings. As organizations increasingly rely on collaborative work, understanding how to effectively coach groups and teams has become essential. In this course, students learn evidence-based practices for coaching groups and teams, grounded in organizational and group psychology. These skills are particularly critical in today's workplace, where leaders must build cohesive teams across hybrid and virtual environments that lack traditional opportunities for natural connection building. Topics covered include distinguishing group and team coaching from individual coaching and team building, establishing psychological safety, managing group dynamics, structuring team coaching engagements, understanding system dynamics and group development, facilitating collective dialogue, navigating team conflicts, assessing team readiness for change, measuring team effectiveness, cross-cultural considerations in group settings, and how to close group coaching relationships. This course is highly experiential and practice-based, with students participating in both coach and client team roles. Students receive comprehensive feedback on their group coaching competencies from faculty and peers, with particular attention to their ability to hold space for multiple perspectives while maintaining forward momentum.