Team Coaching

Acorn help create high performing teams through team coaching

Team Coaching

Acorn help create high performing teams through team coaching
Acorn help create high performing teams through team coaching

Team Coaching

Reduce the time it takes for your team to become a fully effective, high performing asset for your company – improving productivity and profitability.

Reduce the time it takes for your team to become a fully effective, high performing asset for your company – improving productivity and profitability.

Acorn help create high performing teams

The creation of a high performance team depends on the team understanding and uniting on the direction and the leadership style required to achieve the business goals. A team’s ability to be consistent and unified has a significant impact upon business performance.

Acorn’s 5 Dimensions Team Coaching Model© has been proven to accelerate a team’s ability to become high performing.

Team Coaching accelerates team effectiveness. Building upon the team leader’s style, it directly assists leaders and their teams to achieve an organisation’s strategic goals. It focuses on the team’s unique characteristics and applies the five key areas of development to accelerate growth into a high performing team.

Acorn’s Team Coaching Model© cuts the time it takes for your team to become a fully effective, high performing asset for your company – improving productivity and profitability.

It distils accepted theories and studies on high-performing business teams into a formula which is tailored to your business needs using coaching tools.

Benefits of team coaching

Acorn’s Team Coaching input:

  • Reduces the time needed to create a high performing team because all team members take responsibility for the team’s achievements
  • Unites teams on a shared purpose and a unifying team approach, fostering genuine commitment and confidence through clear expectations
  • Promotes the team to focus on more strategic and long-term goals versus simply firefighting
  • Clarifies business objectives, ensuring consistency and unity of team output
  • Increases personal and team awareness of where and how to make a greater contribution
  • Measures team performance, enabling progressive improvement
  • Ensures the team demonstrates humility and engages collaboratively with other key teams and stakeholders

The team coaching questionnaire

Acorn’s team coaching process is supported by our Team Coaching Questionnaire.

The questionnaire, completed by all team members including the team leader and key stakeholders, builds a picture of stronger and weaker areas of team performance and highlights any disparity of views within and without the team for further investigation.

The findings provide a benchmark of capability that can be repeated at any time, providing a measure of increase in performance. They are also used alongside other data to enable the team to identify developmental priorities that will result in a higher level of performance.

Acorn Team Dimensions Model

Acorn Coaching - 5 Dimensions of Teams Model
  • Defining a clear/unifying team purpose
  • Differentiated collaborative objectives
  • Clarifying team expectations: tasks, team behaviours, reflective practice
  • Maintaining focus on Primary Purpose (discernment)
  • Inspirational leadership
  • Creating the conditions for team success
  • Emphasises reflection
  • Models – positive exchange, active listening, learning, appreciation, respect
  • Shared: terminology, practices, norms
  • Clarity of roles and interdependencies
  • Meeting structures
  • Measurement of performance against objectives
  • Decision making process
  • Review/reflecting structure
  • Collective and committed input/responsibility for the team and its development
  • Awareness/acceptance of others values and diversity
  • Emotional awareness of self/others
  • Conflict management skills
  • Demonstrate – appreciation, empathy, respect
  • Focused on the external environment
  • Embracing stakeholders
  • Maintain integrity/unity of the team
  • Willingness to be flexible, learn and develop (humility)

Acorn help create high performing teams

The creation of a high performance team depends on the team understanding and uniting on the direction and the leadership style required to achieve the business goals. A team’s ability to be consistent and unified has a significant impact upon business performance.

Acorn’s 5 Dimensions Team Coaching Model© has been proven to accelerate a team’s ability to become high performing.

Team Coaching accelerates team effectiveness. Building upon the team leader’s style, it directly assists leaders and their teams to achieve an organisation’s strategic goals. It focuses on the team’s unique characteristics and applies the five key areas of development to accelerate growth into a high performing team.

Acorn’s Team Coaching Model© cuts the time it takes for your team to become a fully effective, high performing asset for your company – improving productivity and profitability.

It distils accepted theories and studies on high-performing business teams into a formula which is tailored to your business needs using coaching tools.

Acorn Coaching - 5 Dimensions of Teams Model
  • Defining a clear/unifying team purpose
  • Differentiated collaborative objectives
  • Clarifying team expectations: tasks, team behaviours, reflective practice
  • Maintaining focus on Primary Purpose (discernment)
  • Inspirational leadership
  • Creating the conditions for team success
  • Emphasises reflection
  • Models – positive exchange, active listening, learning, appreciation, respect
  • Shared: terminology, practices, norms
  • Clarity of roles and interdependencies
  • Meeting structures
  • Measurement of performance against objectives
  • Decision making process
  • Review/reflecting structure
  • Collective and committed input/responsibility for the team and its development
  • Awareness/acceptance of others values and diversity
  • Emotional awareness of self/others
  • Conflict management skills
  • Demonstrate – appreciation, empathy, respect
  • Focused on the external environment
  • Embracing stakeholders
  • Maintain integrity/unity of the team
  • Willingness to be flexible, learn and develop (humility)

Benefits of team coaching

Acorn’s Team Coaching input:

  • Reduces the time needed to create a high performing team because all team members take responsibility for the team’s achievements
  • Unites teams on a shared purpose and a unifying team approach, fostering genuine commitment and confidence through clear expectations
  • Promotes the team to focus on more strategic and long-term goals versus simply firefighting
  • Clarifies business objectives, ensuring consistency and unity of team output
  • Increases personal and team awareness of where and how to make a greater contribution
  • Measures team performance, enabling progressive improvement
  • Ensures the team demonstrates humility and engages collaboratively with other key teams and stakeholders

The team coaching questionnaire

Acorn’s team coaching process is supported by our Team Coaching Questionnaire.

The questionnaire, completed by all team members including the team leader and key stakeholders, builds a picture of stronger and weaker areas of team performance and highlights any disparity of views within and without the team for further investigation.

The findings provide a benchmark of capability that can be repeated at any time, providing a measure of increase in performance. They are also used alongside other data to enable the team to identify developmental priorities that will result in a higher level of performance.

CREATING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

Our series of five team coaching white papers draws on over three decades of practice and research helping leaders and teams within organisations. It should be clear reading these that our approach to team coaching is driven primarily by improving results through performance.

Acorn - Creating High Performing Teams
Acorn - Primary Purpose and Leadership
Acorn - Team Coaching Structure

“Acorn delivered a most impressive day. The Team Coaching process was an extremely constructive process which broke new ground for us. Looking back, it proved to be the turning point for the team.”
 

Commercial Director, UK Telecoms JV

Acorn - Creating High Performing Teams
Acorn - Primary Purpose and Leadership
Acorn - Team Coaching Structure

“Acorn delivered a most impressive day. The Team Coaching process was an extremely constructive process which broke new ground for us. Looking back, it proved to be the turning point for the team.”
 

Commercial Director, UK Telecoms JV