ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how specific team coaching interventions can help teams learn to be more effective through awareness of themselves, their relationships, and the dynamics and culture of the team as a whole. It focuses on several types of awareness and examples of interventions to stimulate those types of awareness at several levels of analysis within a team. The chapter shows that system awareness, awareness of the system of the team as a whole, is often gained by shifting focus from the mainstream group voices to minority voices. It argues that relational awareness is often gained by shifting the focus from positions and behaviors to the underlying meaning, emotions, beliefs, values, or needs. The chapter proposes that individual awareness of one’s own intrapsychic process and system of emotions is often brought about by shifting communication channels from a familiar channel such as using words to a less familiar channel such as using movement, amplifying gestures, or other forms of communication.
