Team Coaching
A comprehensive approach to developing and improving the performance of a team by addressing the entire system in which the team operates. We focus on the internal dynamics and functioning of the team but also on the external factors and relationships that influence the team’s effectiveness.
What does team coaching offer?
Health
Enhance team health by improving communication, trust, and role clarity. Foster collaboration, adaptability, and resilience creating a supportive and positive team environment.
Relationships
Build trust among team members by addressing conflicts and relationship dynamics. A high level of trust enhances cooperation and reduces stress and tension within the team.
Sustainability
Create sustainable change by embedding new behaviors, practices, and mindsets within the team. Prepare your team to adapt to future challenges and changes in their environment.
Cohesion
Clarify goals and roles, align strategies, and ensure that all parts of the team and organization work synergistically towards common objectives, enhancing overall performance and effectiveness.
How Do I know If Team Coaching is Right For Us?
Stakeholder Engagement and Relationships
Successfully maintain and expand your relationships with stakeholders, such as clients, customers, vendors or other departments. Whole system team coaching enhances understanding (seeing the challenge from a customer facing perspective for example) and powerfully evokes both the surface and hidden aspects of stakeholder needs and expectations.
Adaptability and Resilience
In today’s fast-paced business environment, your organization must be adaptable to change and resilient in the face of complex challenges. How does your team currently handle uncertainty and evolving circumstances?
Leadership Development
An organization requires leadership to be able to consider the interrelatedness of the various aspects of the organization’s purpose, mission and vision in order to guide teams effectively. Enhancing leadership skills and developing a more cohesive leadership approach are priorities for organizations in today’s volatile environment.
Communication and Collaboration
When there are significant communication barriers, misunderstandings, or conflicts within and between teams, improving communication and fostering a collaborative environment are crucial for the organization’s success. Conflict is merely a symptom; a naturally occurring disturbance in the organization’s culture that signals opportunity and possibility is abound.
Alignment and Integration Needs
If your organization faces challenges with aligning goals, strategies, and values across different teams or departments, you can equip your team with skills that improve integration and coherence in their efforts and objectives. The best part is that the work I do with one team will powerfully affect the entire organization.
Coaching the team as one entity.
Unlike group coaching, team coaching coaches the team as one entity all working toward the same objectives and/or outcomes.
Focused on growing long term team capacity.
One of my favourite examples of capacity building is supporting a team to do more with less. An entirely worthy endeavour given the rapidly changing world we live in.
Collectively raising awareness and building better connections.
Becoming more aware of self and the impact on others supports team members to see the team dynamics. Once seen, they are better able to shift dynamics to meet the challenges they face.
Reducing conflict with the team and between teams.
Reducing harmful conflict, engaging instead in creative conflict and improving communication within the team and beyond is pertinent to performance, effectiveness and efficiency.
A simple process to achieve big things
Create an expanded view on what is possible for you and your team.
Schedule a 1-on-1
We’ll gather as much information as we can about your team, your business or organization. This may require us to meet the team either virtually or on location. Once we feel satisfied that we’ve gathered as much as we can we’ll prepare a thorough proposal and statement of work for you to review.
Proposal Delivered
Our comprehensive proposal will offer several delivery options that meet every budget without compromising quality. We’ll walk you through our suggestions, be there to answer any questions and then leave you to process the information and the results we state we can deliver.
Engage & Schedule
Once you’ve had all your questions answered and we’ve partnered to tweak and tailor the program that’s just right for what you’re team is up to, it’s time to sign on the dotted line and engage. From there we’ll schedule delivery of the program and work out the who, what and where’s of that. All in partnership and using a coach approach!
Supporting Teams
Continuous learning and development, strengthen stakeholder relationships, adopt effective conflict resolution techniques, creating a supportive, efficient, and positive team environment.
The trust-based relationship that Tracey created allowed me to see myself and begin to understand my motivations. I couldn’t be more grateful for Tracey’s time, candour, compassion and clarity in bringing this leader to a new understanding of my role and myself.
Scott Armstrong
Vista Radio
Tracey was already on board as a coach to our Management Trainees at Schnitzer Steel when I began overseeing the program. As Tracey worked with our team and the trainees I quickly learned how skilled she is at what she does and the impact she was making to the program.
Tina R. Shaw
ACC, PHR, Training Professional
Working with Tracey has been an incredibly impactful experience. Her supportive yet challenging approach pushed me to grow in ways I never imagined. She truly understands the nuances of leadership and tailored her guidance to fit my goals.
Aldo Jordan
The Metals Agency
Tracey has been instrumental in creating tangible goals and building a toolkit for approaching leadership and life opportunities. I’ve gained significant growth from our sessions.
Megan Loach Tomulka
Tracey has a dynamic personality with skills to coach an individual how to change old concepts into new perceptions. Tracey offers a balanced approach for dealing with difficult situations and provides clarity of vision. She wants her clients to be successful and can prepare them to reach their potential.
James M Pierce, JR.
General Manager at Schnitzer Steel
Ken Kushin
General Manager at Schnitzer Steel
An Interview With Tracey
Frequently asked questions
The following questions will support you in gaining a comprehensive understanding of systemic team coaching capabilities, approach, and potential fit with your specific needs and goals.
What types of organizations and industries have you worked with before?
I’ve worked with teams in aviation, metals recycling, coaches, forestry, finance, law and many more. It’s satisfying work that gets to the heart of issues, unleashes creativity in the team and opens up fantastic new ways of relating and communicating. Have I mentioned how fun and fascinating this work is?
What certifications or formal training do you have in systemic team coaching?
I participated in rigorous team training training and development from 2006 to 2020 with various schools including Accomplishment Coaching and also Coaching Development and then in 2024 took the Systemic Team Coaching certification. Having said that, I began Team Coaching organically, it just occurred to me as something that made complete sense as I worked in various organizations. There were no team coaching certifications back then, I just followed my hunches on how best to cause the teams to achieve things they hadn’t achieved before and those hunches always paid off.
Can you describe your approach to systemic team coaching and how it differs from traditional team coaching?
I think my approach is always different in that I bring the ontological lens to all my coaching engagements and I also find that with teams, the training I’ve received in Process Oriented Psychology, using an unshaming, somatic approach (based in Jungian Theory) is also pivotal and powerful in taking the team to results that other facilitation methods, team building or training haven’t been able to accomplish. I always begin with discovery, experiencing the team working together, speaking together, sensing and feeling the culture and all the interrelated factors at play. I’m a neutral bystander coming in with what I like to call “fresh eyes and ears” to a pre existing culture. It’s always amazing what I can hear that the organization and it’s people can not hear for itself because they swim in those waters every day.
Can you customize your coaching programs to address specific challenges or objectives we have?
This has always been the most powerful form of delivery I have in that I promise real-time results that address specific challenges and objectives a team might be experiencing. I can best introduce new skills and/or tools to the team by coaching the team through specific challenges that they bring to our work together. This has many benefits, including seeing an immediate return on investment, and also the power of the skills and tools in action. It also gives the team practice and the healthy accountability to immediately implement new skills as they learn them.
How do you ensure that the coaching intervention delivers a return on investment (ROI) for our organization?
My answer to the above question also applies to this question. Then… consider that the team working on a specific challenge and/or objective in a new way will 100% generate new outcomes they wouldn’t have achieved on their own. And… this will be repeatable and measurable. In addition, we’ll establish tangible measures that matter to the team (and overarching organization) at the beginning of our work together. This way we’ll be constantly measuring against those measures to ensure we’re on track. This and many other ways we ensure a solid ROI.
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COMPASSIONATE CURIOSITY
Synchronicity
There was a time where I was very rooted in my business head and not much in tune with things that couldn’t be explained via facts, figures and proof. I had the nickname, “the briefcase” then. And then, over the course of many years, things happened to me and for me that I just couldn’t explain.
I bring this conversation here, to the team coaching page because it caused me to move from stress, overwhelm and illness to trust, surrender and vitality. I am comforted now that I’ve come to realize that we truly are one and that everything happens for a reason.
When we are part of a team, there is a huge opportunity to lean into this perhaps uncomfortable idea, to dabble in the deeper, spiritual realm of connection and interdependence.