Thank You for The Outpouring of Love
Dear TCI Community, Thank you for the outpouring of love in tribute to Phil’s passing. Reading through the messages it was very clear that whether your time with Phil was a few minutes, or multiple years there was a meaningful connection created. David Whyte was one of Phil’s favorite poets. It seems appropriate to share […]
How to Check In With Yourself Using the TCI Model
I hope this letter finds you healthy and thriving, Have you ever used the TCI model to check in with yourself, to assess what quadrant you might be occupying at any given moment? Checking to identify your challenges/opportunities? I often use the TCI quad as a way to reframe my state of consciousness in any […]
Jane Zhang Interview
Jane Zhang is co-founder of Talent Insight Management, a team coaching, training, and HR services firm based in based in Shanghai and Suzhou, China. Talent Insight is the TCI business partner for China. They deliver the training that leads to Certified Team Performance Coach (CTPC) and actively deliver team coaching to China clients. Where do […]
An Interview with Andy Denne
Each month we like to take a moment to shine the spotlight on TCI Faculty members. This month our co-founder Phil Sandahl took a moment to interview Andy Denne, founder of Teaching Team Leadership in Marseille, France. Where do you live? I live in Provence, France, with my wife, Isabelle, and daughters Amelia and Angelike, in […]
How To Improve Team Communication with Active Listening
In today’s business world the importance of effective team communication is indisputable. What’s also beyond dispute is that the increasing rate of daily business activity presents a challenge to communication on teams. But speed alone is hardly the only aspect of communication that is putting pressure on teams. Add to the equation new forms of […]
Improve Accountability on Teams in 4 Simple Steps
As team coaches, we face many challenges in our work with teams, often at once. Low trust, poor communication and lack of alignment are but a few of them. Where those factors are clear to the team as the discussion begins to take place, others aren’t. Among the more misunderstood factors is achieving accountability as […]
5 Keys to Successful Navigation in a VUCA World
The world we live and work in is increasingly a world that can be easily described as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. As an acronym, a VUCA World. The US military coined that terminology to help train leaders in effective response to modern battlefield conditions. But those four words also aptly describe the environment in […]
How To Turn Team Conflict Into Trust, Resilience & Results
Team conflict is normal. Avoiding team conflict is also normal. We see that tendency when we work with teams and, let’s be honest: we often see it in ourselves. We would rather avoid than engage, even when we know that it can ultimately be a valuable contribution to team performance. The simple truth is unattended […]
6 Challenges of Coaching Virtual Teams & How to Address Them
With the rapid rate of technological innovation over the past couple of decades, the changes we’ve seen in the workplace have been considerable. With increasing frequency, more teams within more organizations are being created with members who are globally dispersed and connected only by technology. As team coaches, we need to learn how to do […]
Coaching The Team as a System
A team is a living system—more than a collection of individual parts. A team as a system has rules for belonging and behavior. Those rules are not written down in the employee handbook. New team members learn the rules by observing and by touching the hot wire or being rewarded with a pat on the […]
Team Development: What Does It Mean in Terms of Team Coaching?
We’ve all been on teams and observed teams. There is an easy assumption to make that we know what a team is in terms of team development. The reality is, especially in the workplace, the mental model most followed as a team paradigm is way out of date or simply inadequate for the requirements placed […]
Team Coaching Discovery Success in Six Steps
A successful team coaching project starts with a clear understanding of the need, the fit an agreement on intended outcomes. Both the team coach and the team sponsor know: “where we are; where we’re headed; and how we’ll get there”. We use the placeholder, “team sponsor” for the organization’s role because that initiative may have […]