Systemic Team Coaching STC is a complex and powerful intervention in organisations. We define it as:
A process of coaching the whole team together and apart, over a designated period of time to enable it to

Align on common purpose

Collaborate and learn through diversity

Develop collective leadership

Achieve performance objectives

Effectively engage with their key stakeholders

Jointly transform the wider business





To achieve this STC draws on a range of adult and organisational learning theories and practices that include


Individual Coaching

Group Coaching of managers/leaders who share an interest in a project but have no collective responsibility

Team Building activities to develop a new team or one in a transitional stage to value and utilise diversity and difference

Team Facilitation of a meeting process to help the team be more effective eg. in decision making

Inter-Team Coaching - facilitation of teams in the wider system to collaborate

Organisational Development - attending to how the team impacts and is impacted by organisation





The systemic team coach views the team through 6 Lenses


Individual team members

Interpersonal relationships

Team Dynamics

Team Tasks - strategy, objectives, systems

Stakeholder interfaces

Wider Systemic Forces





The 5 Disciplines Framework is the key structure that addressed the internal and external elements and guides the systemic team coach in attending to where the team needs to work to be most effective. These are:


Stakeholder Expectations - what the team needs to deliver to external parties

Team Tasks - what the team does internally to meet those expectations

Team Relationships - interpersonal and leadership dynamics internally to the team

Stakeholder Relationships - how the team connects to those it serves

Team Learning - how the team develops to meet future challenges





A diagnostic tool Team Connect 360 that generates valuable data on the performance of the team now and after the STC intervention is explained and available for use.

The 5 Phase SIDER STC Process is a robust and practical method for engaging with a team. It involves


Scoping the initial work with the Sponsor and Team Leader

Inquiry - generating data into the how the team is performing against the 5 Disciplines (use of TC360)

Developing an agenda for the work with the Sponsor and Team

Execution of that agenda through coaching with the team

Review and evaluation of results





Case studies and examples are given throughout to illustrate how the theory is applied in practice

The book addresses other important elements


How to develop the personal and skills capability do deliver STC

The courses to attend to take forward the material presented

Practical guidance on how to build and STC practice