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Team coaching is at the heart of organization development, as organizations are effectively networks of teams. Learn how I partner with leaders to develop high-performance teams.
Takeshi Yoshida
Founder & Chief Coach, Agile OD (Singapore)
ICF PCC & ACTC • ORSCC • Scrum.org PSM II & PSPO
Team Development = Team Building, Training, Facilitation, Consulting, Mentoring + Coaching
Team coaching is a partnership with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their potential. This core characteristic of coaching applies equally to team and individual coaching.
At the same time, team coaching overlaps with other team development modalities. As the ICF Team Coaching Competencies explain, “Team coaching exists under this umbrella of team development, along with the following modalities: team building, team training, team consulting, team mentoring, team facilitation, and team coaching.”
Effective team coaches deliberately and adaptively cross over all team development modalities to help teams achieve their goals. Facilitation and coaching overlap most frequently, while at times a coach may employ more directive approaches such as training, consulting, or mentoring. Team building often serves as the initial modality in a team coaching engagement.
High Performance Teams Need High Performance Coaches
Over the years, I’ve partnered with hundreds of teams across dozens of organizations, and no two teams are alike. Team coaching is one of the most demanding practices in coaching — requiring both finesse and robustness, and testing a coach’s depth of resourcefulness and capacity for on-the-edge performance. In other words, developing a high-performance team requires a high-performance coach. That very challenge is why I love team coaching.
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Career Summary
I’ve worked with teams large and small throughout my three decades of front-line business experience — first in banking at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, then as a serial startup entrepreneur. As a leader, executive, and founder, I’ve faced and learned from the many challenges of building high-performing teams in complex environments. These insights led me to found Agile Organization Development in 2017 — now a global collective of 30-plus expert coaches and OD practitioners — where we equip client leaders and teams with essential KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities) to drive change and innovation. I hold an MBA from INSEAD, where I now lecture, coach, and train in executive programmes, blending the latest insights in management science with everyday, practical application.
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I’ve found a common-toolkit approach to be highly effective in team coaching. Over the years, I’ve built an extensive library of “mental models” — KSA (knowledge, skills, and abilities) tools — drawn from my work with countless client teams. Tried, tested, and refined for practical use, these models accelerate the impact of my team coaching practice.
Coach Takeshi’s Pedagogy (v2024)
I use four mental models to describe my pedagogy (theory and practice of education): Why They Matter Structured learning provides … Read More
The Two Simple Traits of High Performing Teams
What do you do? The dreaded elevator pitch question. I fumble on it every time. Some days I will say … Read More
Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures is a collection of powerful team exercises curated by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless (www.liberatingstructures.com). The following slides … Read More
Team Alignment in VUCA”O” Times: Try W3 x 124A (What, So What, Now What x 1-2-4-All)
The situation is volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, overwhelming (VUCA”O”). We have an immediate, mission critical challenge to tackle. We need … Read More
How to Build an Agile Team in 6 Steps
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Remote and Hybrid Teamwork Success: “Asynchronous” Communication is the Key
Addressing the “Always On” Fatigue of Remote and Hybrid Working with Asynchronous Communication “I miss working in the office, at … Read More
Shared Understanding
I’m glad we all agree. (Really?)
The Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum (2024 updated)
You can’t just flip a switch for delegation and empowerment. It’s more like turning a dial — a spectrum you … Read More
Separating Thinking & Doing Time: Learnings from David Marquet’s “Blue & Red Work”
David Marquet’s “Blue & Red Work” Red Work: Doing Time We continue to be haunted by the ghosts of Taylorism … Read More
How to Build a Kanban Board from Scratch
Your Kanban is a living, breathing artifact. Use it daily and update it frequently. Keep it live and fresh. Why … Read More
Coach Takeshi’s Scrum Crash Course
Learn Scrum the right way! This is a one hour fifty minute condensed version of my otherwise one day Scrum … Read More
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