ABSTRACT
Team coaching is a new and rapidly growing professional practice that is being developed largely through the experience of team coaching practitioners. As dominant leadership paradigms continue to shift from traditional command and control models to more collaborative team models both in the United States and internationally, the power of the team continues to grow in importance. Team coaching will play an increasingly critical part in the success of the paradigm shift. Team coaches are often external to the team and the organization within which the team operates and must quickly learn as much as possible about the culture that they are, to a certain extent, “parachuting” into. Given the relative newness of team coaching as a professional practice, it is highly likely that an experienced team coach also has a wealth of experience as an individual coach. Effective team coaches require a certain amount of humility and function primarily from a place of internal motivation.
