Group and Team Coaching is a best-seller offering a new perspective on the secret life of groups, the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams. Originally published in 2010 and designed for easy navigation, it is a highly regarded team coaching handbook, and required reading on many courses.
This new edition is fully updated, with a completely new chapter on working with groups and teams on virtual platforms, including hybrid and blended working. Christine Thornton uses key concepts from psychology, group analysis and systems theory as well as her own extensive experience to give practical advice. Topics include: the invisible processes of group dynamics; common dilemmas; pitfalls of team coaching and how to avoid them; pros and cons and best practice online; how to design coaching interventions; supervising coaching; ethics.
Based on research and including many vignettes and case studies, this new edition is essential reading for coaches working with groups and teams, and leaders working with their own teams or commissioning coaching.
Group and Team Coaching is a best-seller offering a new perspective on the secret life of groups, the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams.
Authors foreword: what this book can do Foreword to the second edition
Foreword to the first edition Acknowledgements to the third edition
Acknowledgements to the first edition Part 1: Introductory
1. Introduction:
what is group and team coaching? Part 2: The concepts
2. Learning, holding
and exchange
3. Looking deeper: the secret life of groups
4. Eight group
factors influencing learning and change Part 3: Organizations and teams
5.
Understanding organizations, groups and teams: systems and complexity
thinking
6. Team coaching I Part 4: Learning groups
7. Learning group
coaching
8. Supervision groups Part 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: boundaries of the group Part 6: Navigation
and further learning Afterword to the third edition Suggested further reading
Frequently asked questions References and bibliography Index
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. Christines career encompasses senior leadership, 30 years consulting and writing, and recognition of lifetime contributions to the coaching profession. www.thorntonconsulting.org.
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