[Neurons] 2025 Neurons #47 WHY GROUP & TEAM COACHING?

Sat Nov 15 22:41:46 EST 2025

From: L. Michael Hall

2025 Neurons #47

November 17, 2025

WHY GROUP & TEAM COACHING?

Why would organizations be interested in Group and Team Coaching training?
What's in it for a business, an association, or a government?  What will be
the benefits and return on investment? When you consider the possibility of
being a Group and Team Coach and employing the Meta-Coaching System to
resolve conflicts in groups and to enable the functioning of a group, there
are numerous values and benefits. 

1) Effective and Productive Groups

The first and most important reason for Group & Team Coaching training in an
organization is that most groups are dysfunctional.  They do not work very
well.  They not only are not very effective or productive, they are all too
often, positively hurtful to the organization.  They undermine the
effectiveness of the business.

Yet managers and business owners hire people for their talents and skills to
improve the quality and quantity of products and services.  Yet the essence
of business is the ability to work with others and through others.  That's
what we do in business.  The people we hire have to be able to create
products, services, and information for clients by working in a coordinated,
cooperative, and collaborative way.  If people in an organization are not
communicating well, are not coordinating their efforts, clarifying their
communications, understanding each other, understanding what the customers
are asking for, and getting information in plenty of time, then we know that
the business will be putting along at half speed.

Group & Team Coaching works to solve these problems.  It works to enable
people to appreciae the importance of cooperation and develop the required
skills.  Otherwise there will be a great waste of human capital of
intelligence and creativity.  This is where a Group Coach can interactively
facilitate a group to learn how to communicate with each other so that there
is precision and clarity.  This is not easy, that's why a well-trained Coach
is needed.

2) Reduction of Conflict and Dysfunction

In addition to straightening out and cleaning up the language of people, a
Group Coach also facilitates the ability of a group to face and work through
conflicts in a respectful and effective way.  This also is not easy and can
be quite demanding.  Yet if a manager spends a lot of time settling
conflicts and misunderstandings, and have to deal with the political
maneuvers of keeping secrets, undermine another's success or reputation,
gossiping, playing favorites, etc., then you also know that the group will
not be operating at its optimal best.

When we consider all of the ways that people in groups can be ineffective
and can create stress and problems for each other, it's a wonder that any
group is very effective.  Group & Team Coaching offers business the chance
to enable people to work more effectively with each other by confronting the
issues, by talking about "the 500 pound guerilla" that's in the room, and
working through the differences.  This typically means facilitating people
to change their neuro-semantics about "conflict" and "differences" and then
develop the skills for being curious, respectful, responsible, and open to
correction.  Only then can a group become truly effective and productive in
getting results.  Isn't that what companies are in business for?

3) United Efforts

As there are many different kinds of groups-there will be differences in
group coaching.  Seven different kinds of groups are listed in the book
Group and Team Coaching (2012).  At the highest level is the executive team.
Yet most often the term "team" is more of a label rather than a description.
Take each of the individual senior managers apart and ask them about the
vision and values of the group, and you'll probably get as many answers as
you have individuals.  Is it any wonder then that the overall group isn't
aligned, focused, and integrated?  Then there are all sorts of department
groups and inter-department groups.  And are they any more unified?

There are also work groups-projects, committees, quality control circles,
etc.  These are groups which have been commissioned to accomplish a specific
outcome, to get a specific result.  And again, the inner fighting,
politicking, and vying for either control, influence, status, budget,
resources, etc. is a frequent occurrence. 

4) Unleashing Group & Team Potentials

When groups work effectively together, they can achieve great
things-achievements greater than what any individual can do alone or apart.
An effective thinking and learning team will be smarter than the most
intelligent individual.  By such collective thinking, learning, and
deciding, we not only unleash potentials but attain a higher intelligence.
To facilitate this, groups need to be safe, inclusive, empowering of
members, respectful, fun, effective, and unleashing the highest and best in
all.

This is especially critical for a Meta-Coach because he or she does
self-actualization coaching.  The Meta-Coach operates from a deeper
understanding of Self-Actualization Psychology than other coaches.  They
know the processes of unleashing, for holding the space for a crucible
experience, for unleashing self-actualizing leaders and companies, etc.

5) Create a Warm and Welcoming Social Context

Groups in organizations, associations, government, and everywhere are social
entities and the quality, feel, and mood of the group establish the group's
culture.  Group Coaching is an excellent methodology for renewing,
rejuvenating, and empowering an organization's culture.  When there is a
warm and welcoming culture wherein people work-people will want to be there,
want to be a part, take more personal responsibility, and enjoy the
experience.  That will improve their learning and development, create
team-spirit, and that will improve retention of the best people in the
organization.  And all of that will improve the bottom-line of the business.

6) Unleash greater Creativity and Innovation

To stay current in today's market, every organization that wants to be on
the cutting-edge has to be a learning organization and that means that the
communication system within the business has to be fluid, quick, and
accurate.  That enables people to be "in the know" and trusted to handle the
information and activities in the organization.  In this way Group & Team
Coaching improves the groups within a business to be more creative and then
more effective in innovating new products and services.

Now you know why Group & Team Coaching can be transformative in an
organization enabling it to not only be profitable but create a culture
where people are engaged and find meaning in their work.  

Neuro-Semantics News

*       Group & Team Meta-Coaching (GTMC) occurs in Hong Kong this December.
December 4-7 for the training and Dec. 8-9 for the assessments and for
watching and learning from the assessments.  All of it is open to everyone!

For detailed information about where and how to sign up - contact

Mandy Chai -   <mailto:chaimansun at yahoo.com.hk> chaimansun at yahoo.com.hk

Boey Law -      <mailto:boey_law at neurosemantics.hk>
boey_law at neurosemantics.hk

 <http://www.meta-coaching.org/> http://www.meta-coaching.org

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

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