The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership - 083: Glain Roberts-McCabe: The Roundtable: Helping Leaders Cultivate Leadership Together

083: Glain Roberts-McCabe: The Roundtable: Helping Leaders Cultivate Leadership Together

08/18/17 • 66 min

The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership

How does the shift from the knowledge economy to the collaboration economy impact how we coach leaders and teams in organizations? How can peer group coaching, team coaching and guided mentoring support this shift? Tune in for this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast with guest Glain Roberts-McCabe to explore these and other interesting topics and questions. Glain Roberts-McCabe is the Founder & President of The Roundtable--a group & team coaching organization based in Toronto, Canada where leaders cultivate their leadership together.

Some themes covered in this podcast include:

-Glain’s journey from line leader to classroom trainer to focusing on business development to group and team coaching and then to founding The Roundtable 10 years ago

-Peer group coaching, team coaching and guided mentoring in organizations

-Addressing high potentials who are at risk of derailment and how they can coach and learn together

-The shift from the knowledge economy to the collaborative economy

-The hunger for belonging & connectivity in Gen X and the Millennials

-The shift to collaborative and collective leadership

The Roundtable: a group coaching program targeting leadership development

-Use of Feedforward in group coaching

-Why coaching leaders in groups is often more powerful than coaching leaders alone one-to-one: seeing people in context

-Flipping the classroom approach: how to augment group coaching with training modules

-Size, length and frequency of group coaching sessions

-How to use a twist on mastermind groups using peer coaching

-Upping the coaching skills of group members

-The story of an award winning program delivered at PepsiCo by The Roundtable

Using group coaching to help leaders and managers learn how to coach their own teams

-Team coaching as a guise or stealth approach for leadership development

-Guided group mentoring: coaching leaders to mentor groups

-Accordion approach to team coaching: working with the team and the individual

-The innovative structure of The Roundtable company: advisory council, 1-day conference, members

-Great resources at www.GoRoundtable.com

The Roundtable approach is a best-in-class role model for how coaches can help organizations transform their approach to learning and also with the dramatic shift to the collaboration economy. This is an episode you cannot afford to miss!

Some themes covered in this podcast include:

-Glain’s journey from line leader to classroom trainer to focusing on business development to group and team coaching and then to founding The Roundtable 10 years ago

-Peer group coaching, team coaching and guided mentoring in organizations

-Addressing high potentials who are at risk of derailment and how they can coach and learn together

-The shift from the knowledge economy to the collaborative economy

-The hunger for belonging & connectivity in Gen X and the Millennials

-The shift to collaborative and collective leadership

The Roundtable: a group coaching program targeting leadership development

-Use of Feedforward in group coaching

-Why coaching leaders in groups is often more powerful than coaching leaders alone one-to-one: seeing people in context

-Flipping the classroom approach: how to augment group coaching with training modules

-Size, length and frequency of group coaching sessions

-How to use a twist on mastermind groups using peer coaching

-Upping the coaching skills of group members

-The story of an award winning program delivered at PepsiCo by The Roundtable

Using group coaching to help leaders and managers learn how to coach their own teams

-Team coaching as a guise or stealth approach for leadership development

-Guided group mentoring: coaching leaders to mentor groups

-Accordion approach to team coaching: working with the team and the individual

-The innovative structure of The Roundtable company: advisory council, 1-day conference, members

-Great resources at www.GoRoundtable.com

Previous Episode

082: Dr. Ruth Wageman, Pauline Willis & Dr. Krister Lowe: Team Diagnostic Survey: 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness

What are the most powerful factors that predict team effectiveness? How much do the designing, launching and coaching phases influence team effectiveness? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast for a round table conversation with Dr Ruth Wageman, Pauline Willis and Dr. Krister Lowe to explore how the TDS Survey and the 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness answer these and other important topics facing teams in today’s organizations. Dr. Ruth Wageman is a thought leader and practitioner in the area of teams and team effectiveness, the author of Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes To Make Them Great and one of the Creators of the Team Diagnostic Survey along with Dr. Richard Hackman. Pauline Willis is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, coach-mentor and thought leader in executive and team coaching with Lauriate, Ltd and the Coaching and Mentoring Network. Dr. Krister Lowe is an Organizational Psychologist, an executive and team coach and the Founder of the Team Coaching Zone, LLC.

In this episode of the podcast, show guests share their journey and mission to bring the TDS Survey and the 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness to the marketplace in order to increase team effectiveness in organizations and communities Themes covered in this episode include:

-Origins of the TDS survey and framework -The 6 Conditions of Team Effectiveness: 3 Essentials (Real Team, Compelling Purpose, Right People) & 3 Enablers (Sound Structure, Supportive Organizational Context, Team Coaching) -Chronology and sequencing of the 6 conditions -3 Key Task Processes: Effort, Strategy, Knowledge & Skill -3 Team Effectiveness Outcomes: Task Performance, Group Process, Member Satisfaction -How the TDS helps predict up to 80% of a team’s effectiveness -The 60-30-10 rule of team intervention: Designing, Launching and Coaching phases of teams -Abundance of poorly designed teams -Upcoming launch of the the Team Diagnostic Survey -Stories/Applications using the TDS Survey with real-world teams: with team leaders: the team leader as team coach; leadership teams that struggle with purpose and being a real team; the limits of training teams in soft skills and using personality assessments to increase performance; using personality assessments with team diagnostics in teams; teams vs. teaming; lessons applying the TDS when working with rapid teams; team of teams – using the TDS with multiple teams within an organization as well as partnering across organizations in an industry (e.g. healthcare); critical teams and change teams; reinventing organizations through transforming teams; supervision of team coaches; collaborative leadership teams; self-governing teams and more

This episode is essential listening for all team coaches who are seeking to understand the most powerful levers that drive team effectiveness as well as a measurement instrument that can help teams create the conditions for success. Tune in today and take your team coaching practice to the next level!

Next Episode

084: Melissa Sayer & Colm Murphy: Coaching Teams to Increase Team Effectiveness & Diffuse Organizational Learning

How does team coaching contribute to team effectiveness and the diffusion of organizational learning? What is the state of research on team coaching? How can team coaches leverage research to inform practice? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these fundamental questions that strike at the heart of the efficacy of team coaching. Melissa Sayer is a Team & Executive Coach for Performance Hub and a Doctoral Student of team coaching at the University of Portsmouth. Colm Murphy is a Business Coach for teams & leaders for Dynamic Leadership Development Limited and a Doctoral Student of team coaching at the University of Portsmouth as well.

Themes covered in the podcast include:

-How Colm & Melissa teamed up to contribute to both team coaching scholarship & practice

-Colm’s dissertation topic: how team coaching contributes to team effectiveness

-Melissa’s dissertation topic: how team coaching contributes to organizational learning

-The research-practice gap in the team coaching field

-Lack of stakeholder voice in team coaching evaluation measures

-The imbalance of current research focusing on leadership teams vs. other types of teams -Team coaching as a learning partnership

-Teams as central to the diffusion of learning in organizations

-The critical role of coaching as a vehicle for facilitating the “transfer of learning”

-The 4 I’s of Learning Transfer: Intuiting, Interpreting, Integrating and Institutionalizing

-The wide body of research on team effectiveness and how to measure it

-Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of learning evaluation

-Learning in real time via team coaching

-Defining and differentiating team coaching

-Bringing one’s whole self as a team coach

-3 evolutionary metaphors for teams: machine, family, system

-Team coaching as an emergent process

-Case examples and lessons learned from coaching real teams

-And more!

Now that the Fall semester is getting underway, it’s time for team coaches to head back to school and get their learning on as well! Tune in to this episode and let Melissa and Colm help you take your scholarship and practice in the area of team coaching to the next level!