Team-Coaching

A team can best unfold its potential if everyone gets the appreciation, recognition and scope for development and growth which he or she needs in order to perform well. Enforced conformity or the breaking of individuals never leads to the passion required in today’s agile race for innovation and market success. The respect and acknowledgement of individual skills does not exclude the powerful output of the team as a whole, on the contrary, it is its prerequisite.

As a solution-focused coach, I thus use the SolutionCircle developed by Daniel Meier am my theoretical foundation. I continue to be totally enthusiastic and surprised how much positive energy and relationships can pop up in a team! Actually, it is refreshingly simple: we do totally without the worried search for problems and we categorically renounce declaring someone or something guilty of causing a problem. Rather, we are deeply convinced that each individual and thus every team is not a problem to be solved or corrected, but rather a fascinating potential of own resources, innovation power and creativity, just as much as he or she has an inherent desire for successful relationships.

Illustration: Daniel Meier, Wege zur erfolgreichen Teamentwicklung, Basel, Switzerland, 2005,
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The Advantage of Team Coaching with the SolutionCircle

• Exploring past success stories results in a more positive self-image: “Oh, we are not half as bad as we thought!”
• It helps to rediscover the potential of a team and how it can be used in the future
• Focusing on solutions creates trust and takes away fears of being exposed, criticized or denounced
• The vision of a perfect future and of reached objectives is based on the resources available in the team. This increases participant’s confidence in successfully

• Workshop objectives and energies are concentrated on the development of solutions and their implementation. This saves a lot of time.
• It strengthens us to work on our strengths. This motivates participants and makes team building an enjoyable experience
• By concentrating on existing resources, we make room for the development of a deepened team identity, higher job satisfaction and a greater willingness to perform
• It becomes clear very quickly that not everything needs to be changed. There are a lot of aspects that function well already and will be kept. Good things of the past deserve recognition and praise.