Group and Team Coaching

Christine Thornton is an organisational consultant and supervisor, helping business leaders and coaches think through complex systemic and relationship dynamics, for better performance. Author of several books and papers her most recent book, The art and science of working together (Routledge 2019), develops her analysis of team coaching further. Christine’s career encompasses senior leadership, 30 years’ consulting and writing, and recognition of lifetime contributions to the coaching profession. www.thorntonconsulting.org

Foreword Preface Section 1: Introductory 1. Introduction: what is group and team coaching? Section 2: The concepts 2. Learning, holding and exchange 3. Looking deeper: the secret life of groups 4. Eight group factors influencing learning and change Section 3: Organizations and teams 5. Understanding organizations, groups and teams: systems thinking 6. Team coaching I Section 4: Learning groups 7. Learning group coaching 8. Supervision groups Section 5: Practical steps for specific challenges and occasions 9. Strategies for tackling problem behaviour in groups 10. Virtual group and team coaching 11. Team coaching II: understanding and tackling difficult patterns of behaviour 12. Managing beginnings, middles and endings Section 6: Navigation and further learning Afterword to the third edition