Flying Wolf Team Coaching Overview

 

The Flying Wolf team coaching program is a comprehensive and tailored coaching plan designed to enhance team dynamics, improve collaboration, and optimize performance within the organization.

The 2 key elements of Flying Wolf team coaching:

 

1 – Building a strong team: focus on the TRACK system

• Trust
• Responsibility
• Accountability
• Communication
• (a)Knowledge

 

2 – The team meeting structure and the 4 ARCHETYPES (as developed by the psychologist Robert Moore)

• Social Being – 2 check-ins, personal / work focussed.
• Warrior – Conflict management. Creating a safe container.
• Magician – Reviewing, learning, and planning.
• Sovereign – Acknowledging and praising achievements.

What is the TRACK system, and what purpose does it perform?

 

The TRACK system serves as a reference for team meetings – meetings that focus on the team and its effectiveness. When meetings are on TRACK, the team can operate at its optimum level. The TRACK acronym can be broken down more fully as follows:

 

1. TRUST: Establish an environment of trust, psychological safety, and mutual respect, enabling team members to share ideas, take risks, and learn from failures. Foster a culture of collaboration. Identify barriers to effective teamwork and implement strategies to overcome them.
2. RESPONSIBILITY: Take responsibility for our own commitments, and for our own performance.
3. ACCOUNATBILITY: Lock in the commitment. Be accountable to the team. Ensure that targets are met. Provide a structure that reviews performance and gives feedback.
4. COMMUNICATION: Enhance communication skills, both within the team and with stakeholders, to ensure clarity, transparency, and understanding.
5. (A) KNOWLEDGE: Praise in public. Highlight individual efforts and performances. Celebrate good results as a team.

What are the archetypes? What purpose do they serve?

 

The archetypes represent parts of the human personality. In psychological terms, they can be seen as parts of the whole psyche which interoperate to create the whole. When the different parts of the person are in balance, the person can operate in an optimal manner.

In team coaching, the focus is on the team. We use these elements of the human psyche as a structure to look at the team and its functionality. We see how the team can behave as a separate being, and how to ensure that the parts of the team are working in harmony to maximise its potential.

We then use these archetypes as a structure for the team meetings – meetings that are designed to ensure the team is working at its best.

 

How does team coaching work?

 

1 – Initial Assessment:

We begin by conducting an organizational assessment to understand team dynamics, identify challenges, and determine program focus areas.

• Management interview
• Team leader 1-2-1 coaching sessions on TRACK approach and the 4 ARCHETYPES

Optionally we offer individual interviews and assessments to gain insights into team strengths, weaknesses, and individual preferences. This is more important where there are clear problems in the team dynamics

2 – Design the customized Team Coaching session:

• Address specific needs of the organization and teams
• Design the workshop, which may include exercises on:

1. Building trust and psychological safety.
2. Effective communication.
3. Active listening.
4. Conflict resolution and constructive feedback.
5. Team building and ice-breaking activities.
6. Building high-performing teams.
7. Emotional intelligence and empathy in teams.
8. Leading and motivating teams.

Team Coaching Session (1 day workshop)

Introduction

1. Introduction and overview of the day
2. Warm up exercises
3. Introducing the TRACK system
4. Introducing the 4 ARCHETYPES, as developed by the psychologist Robert Moore, and how they can help us to understand dynamics and processes in both the individual and the team

The 4 archetypes we use:

• Social Being
• Warrior
• Magician
• Sovereign

We follow the archetypes for the remaining stages of the workshop:

1. Social Being Round

• TRACK system – focus on COMMUNICATION
  • Active and Empathic Listening exercises
• Check-ins
  

• Personal presence – are we really present? What gets in the way?
• Work focussed check-ins vs personal life check-ins. What is correct?

2. Warrior Round

• TRACK system – focus on TRUST, RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY
• Creating a safe container
  

• Trust building exercises
• Looking at the importance of mutual respect in the workplace
• Accepting limits and boundaries
  

• Exercise on applying boundaries.

• Forming an agreement on how we commit to behaving in the team.
• Discussion on personal responsibility and responsibility to the team.

 

• Holding ourselves accountable
  

• Practise an example of this – following a set approach.
• What kind of a person / colleague would you like to be?

• Conflict Management – Focus on taking responsibility, not blame.
  

 

• Practise an example of this – following a set approach.
• Recognising the mirror in our judgements.

• Clearing blocks to effective teamwork
  
  • Clearing any blockages to effective teamwork between team members
    
    • Exercise in separating facts from judgements
    • Exercise in setting team priorities
    • Team Building Exercise
    • Giving constructive feedback

3. Magician Round

• Looking at individual issues and getting team support on these
  

• Practise exercise in looking at problems.

4. Sovereign Round

• TRACK system – focus on KNOWLEDGE
  • Celebrating achievements
    
    • Exercise in offering praise and appreciation.
  • Setting goals for the team.
  • Individuals set their own goals.
  • Checking out – personal feeling, and what each person is taking away with them.

Ongoing Support and Evaluation:

• Post-coaching review with team leaders and management – suggest meeting two weeks after the coaching session.
• Offer ongoing support through virtual check-ins, progress tracking, and additional coaching sessions as needed.
• Conduct periodic evaluations to measure the program’s effectiveness, gather feedback, and make necessary adjustments.

Benefits:

– Enhanced team collaboration and synergy.

– Improved communication and conflict resolution skills.

– Increased trust, psychological safety, and employee engagement.

– Enhanced leadership skills and empowerment of team leaders.

– Improved performance, productivity, and innovation within teams.

– Enhanced employee satisfaction and retention.

Note: The program structure and content can be further customized based on the organization’s specific requirements, team dynamics, and desired outcomes.