Accelerate team performance around shared goals and real-life challenges
Team coaching gets teams together with an expert to explore concrete issues and form practical plans to achieve team and individual objectives. The intimate setting and experience sharing promote peer-to-peer collaboration and accountability.
Growthspace allowed me to seamlessly boost my team with expert knowledge, positively affecting performance, personal growth, and employee engagement.”
Shani Merdler, SVP Product
How it works
Defining the outcome for the program, and the topics and skill sets to focus on accordingly.
Matching based on the desired outcome and topics, background, learning styles, and coaches’ expertise.
The admin and team leader meet the coach to tailor the discussion to the team’s situation and challenges.
Conducting five sessions in groups of up to six participants.
Measuring results against the predefined outcome via participant and manager feedback.
Matching a team to the best-fit coach based on skills, background, learning styles, and expertise
Our AI-based matching algorithm takes into account the selected outcome and topics, the team’s background, location, language, learning styles, and the coaches’ expertise. It combs through our pool of over 2,000 top-notch global experts and proposes the top three matches. From there, you can browse these coaches’ profiles, see their past ratings and reviews, and decide who is the best fit.
Team coaching tailored to your organizational context and teams’ real-life challenges
- Accommodate any team with a common goal, from functional and cross-functional teams to any managerial level.
- Choose from a list of in-demand topics or work with a coach to build your own.
- Admins and team leaders meet with the coach to provide the context that guides the discussion.
- Measure what’s important to you with customized feedback questions to participants and managers.
Measure programs’ impact on business KPIs
To guarantee team coaching’s real and tangible results, every program starts by defining the team’s concrete challenges and desired outcome. The platform generates and executes the program and continuously measures its impact based on participants’ and managers’ inputs.
Get more out of your workshops and training
Workshops enrich employees’ knowledge and establish a performance standard. Team coaching adapts learned skills to participants’ day-to-day, so they can apply them in their unique positions. For example, R&D managers learn how to apply the skills they gained in management training to leading engineers, while HR leaders do the same for managing HRBPs.
In-demand team coaching topics you can build on and customize to your people’s challenges and goals
Customer-centricity and service
Execution and achievement
Organizational transformation
Team cohesion and collaboration
Customer-focused problem solving
- Empower your team to deliver exceptional services through innovation and design-thinking best practices.
- Ideal for teams tasked with product development, service improvement, or problem-solving that requires creative and user-centered approaches, especially when there’s a need to shift towards a more innovative, iterative approach to challenges.
Customer-first culture
- Transform your team into customer-centric champions, cultivating a culture where every employee puts the customer at the center of everything they do.
- Ideal for teams or departments directly interacting with clients or customers, especially if feedback indicates a gap in understanding or meeting customer needs.
Service excellence
- Elevate your team’s ability to enhance customer satisfaction, fostering clarity and alignment across stakeholder interactions.
- This solution is best suited for when a team needs to deepen its customer engagement and improve service delivery, particularly if feedback indicates a gap in understanding customer needs or if there’s a need to elevate service standards in a competitive market.
Goal setting and execution
- Help your team become high-performing and walk away with tools and practices to manage both your and their priorities effectively and drive impact together.
- Ideal for teams that struggle with meeting their targets or need a more structured approach to achieving their objectives.
Project management
- Elevate your team’s project management prowess, ensuring on-time, under-budget, and high quality project delivery.
- This is particularly relevant for when teams are managing complex projects with many moving parts and need to enhance their project management skills.
Process excellence and workflow improvements
- Boost your team’s execution and performance through mastering process excellence methodologies and process improvement best practices, ensuring sustained enhancements with strong commitment and buy-in.
- Suitable for teams experiencing bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or quality issues in their workflows.
Resilience
- Enable your team to teams develop the mindset and skills needed to adapt, recover, and thrive in the face of challenges and uncertainty, enhancing team engagement and resilience for overall team growth and success.
- Ideal for teams that are facing high levels of stress, change, or uncertainty and need to build resilience to maintain performance.
Change management
- Strengthen your group’s ability to manage, champion, and/or implement organizational changes.
- This is particularly relevant for teams that are resistant to change or that need support navigating through the transition.
Merger and acquisitions
- Equip your team with the strategies and insights needed to thrive during the complex transition of a merger or acquisition, ensuring continuity, morale, and performance.
- Ideal for teams involved in, or affected by, mergers and acquisitions that need to navigate the complexities and challenges of integrating different cultures, processes, or systems.
Alignment and ways of working
- Foster unity and efficiency within your team for seamless collaboration.
- Ideal to help establish a unified direction and understanding of how to work together effectively.
Communication and productive conflict
- Boost team effectiveness by embracing diverse communication techniques, productive conflict, recognizing unique strengths, and cultivating a culture of trust and responsibility.
- Best suited for when teams need to foster a more open, trusting environment for communication or when conflicts are not being resolved in a way that contributes to the team.
Cross-functional collaboration
- Enhance your team’s collaborative skills for better cross-functional teamwork.
- Ideal for organizations looking to enhance inter-departmental communication and collaboration on projects, especially where projects require input from multiple departments.
Productivity and collaboration
Help your team become high-performing and walk away with tools and practices to manage your and their priorities effectively and drive impact together.
Skill set:
- High-performing teams: Goal/OKR setting and tracking
- Effective prioritization and delegation
- Interface management of internal stakeholders
- Building trust-based relationships
- Managing meetings, synced or not
Interfaces and cross-teams collaboration
Get your team to drive higher impact in the organization by learning how to build trust-based relationships with other teams, functions, levels, and cultures.
Skill set:
- Matrix work and interface management
- Cross-cultural communication
- Creating sync cadences for meetings and reporting
- Upwards communication
- Conflict resolution and escalation management
Team building and effective communication
Optimize your team’s roles, skills, and contributions to make work more effective and improve overall engagement. Team building incorporates the alignment of goals, responsibilities, priorities, and procedures resulting in the team achieving its goals.
Skill set:
- Team mission, vision, R&Rs, and persona
- Team culture and org values
- SWOT
- Building relationships: Styles and communication
- Effective prioritization and delegation
Communication skills: Verbal, written, and presentation
Make your team great communicators and build their delivery capabilities to better lead meetings, give presentations, and handle conflicts
Skill set:
- Structure your narrative with storytelling
- Speaking in front of others
- WIIFM approach (know your audience)
- Communication channels and routines: Effective meeting management, email writing, and how to use Slack
Organizational transformation
Prepare your team to respond effectively to shifts, unexpected, and planned changes.
Skill set:
- M&A from due diligence to integration
- Risk mitigation and decisions making in times of uncertainty
- Creating change communication plans
- Emotional reactions to change
- Measuring the impact of change and running lessons learned
Agile management
Get your team to adopt agile management principles and practices to manage their tasks, and walk away with new project management tools to deliver value to your customers.
Skill set:
- Agile 101: Key principles of the agile manifesto
- Agile life cycle: Break projects down to sprints and iterations
- Drive adoption with metrics and measurements
HR and HRBP as strategic partners to the business
Help your team build a holistic understanding of the company’s talent strategy, design, and lead initiatives that deliver business ROI, and directly engage in coaching partnerships.
Skill set:
- Building HR infrastructure and practices from the ground up
- Client management and HR internal interfaces
- Taking execution/project management to the next level
- HRBP R&R and practices
- HRBP as a coach
Design thinking and UX
Help your team learn how to plan and prototype user-centered designs while working together. Upgrade your team’s ability to meet customers’ needs and bring a competitive advantage.
Skill set:
- Understanding the customer needs and context, their social, emotional, and physical needs
- Translate customer needs into solutions
- Using ideation to develop new solutions and test them
Use team coaching to turn your teams’ challenges into opportunities
Tackle a shared issue
Get teams together with a coach to tackle a well-defined issue, for example, an HR team to improve its consulting capabilities, mid-level managers to drive teams’ performance, or a group of individuals to work on communication skills.
Practice acquired skills in small peer groups
Supplement workshops with team coaching for participants to practice and apply what they learned in their unique positions. For example, follow management training with team coaching for R&D managers to learn how to lead engineers.
Build a well-connected workforce
Team coaching’s intimate setting and experience sharing promote peer-to-peer communication and relationships, which result in better collaboration, higher productivity and effectiveness.
We needed a platform that could help us address two big development challenges; we could work in a very targeted fashion toward helping employees make those gradual leaps. It’s about realizing that success comes from taking small steps each day.”
Frequently asked questions
What topics do you support with team coaching?
We have a list of in-demand topics for you to choose from, each is based on multiple skill sets.
What’s considered a team for team coaching?
A team is any group of up to six employees who share a desired outcome. It could be an HR team that wants to improve its internal consulting capabilities, a cross-functional team that’s been tasked with a shared project, mid-level managers that need to drive team performance or a group of individuals working on their communication skills. We find this group size ideal for discussing concrete issues and coming up with actionable plans in an intimate setting that promotes collaboration and accountability.
Do team leaders attend the sessions?
Yes, the manager meets the expert before the program to provide information about the team, their challenges, behaviors, and routines. In that way, they set the program’s goals and guide the discussion, after which they attend the sessions with the team.
How do you match an expert to a team?
Our AI-based matching algorithm takes into account the programs’ desired outcome and topic, the team’s background, location, language, and learning styles, and the experts’ expertise. All of these put together guarantee the best-fit expert to lead the sessions.
What’s the time commitment required from participants?
Team coaching typically consists of five one-hour sessions, so overall five hours. Experts may provide resources or short assignments between sessions, and we ask participants to provide feedback. All in all, it’s a focused program with a limited time commitment.