[Neurons] 2025 Neurons #48 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2025 Neurons #48

November 24, 2025

 

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN

GROUP AND TEAM COACHING?

 

Soon we will be doing Group & Team Coaching, it will be the first time since
the pandemic for me.  As we have been promoting the training, people are
asking, "What will I learn in this training?"  "What will I be able to take
away from the training?"  

 

Well, a lot of things.  First and foremost, you will learn how groups work
both informationally and experientially.  Our focus will start with the
dynamics inside of the individuals of the group and then the dynamics which
make up the group itself.  This makes any and every group full of dynamic
energy, an energy the group coach has to manage.

 

As a participant, you will experience being in different group 15 times over
the four days.  That is a lot!  Over and over you will experience all sorts
of group dynamics first hand and experientially.  You will experience how to
achieve group objectives, how to design outcomes, solve group problems, plan
group activities, deal with conflict in a group, and much more. 

 

Now while Group and Team Coaching is already a major area in the field of
Coaching, and while everything that I see indicates that it is going to
become a bigger and bigger area in the coming years, most groups do not work
all that well.  And some groups do not work very well at all!  That's why
there has begun to be a big demand for it.  There's lots of reasons for
that.  Perhaps the most obvious is that most groups in organizations are not
run effectively and in a humanistic way.  Consequently organizations waste
so much of the potential that groups could provide.  There's still far too
much rugged individualism, too little skill in being a good team player, and
too much ineffective leadership in the groups.  Boards are like that.
Senior management teams are like that.  And they need help.  What will you
learn?  How groups are not effective, what causes that, and what to do to
make them effective.

 

You will also make an amazing discovery in distinguishing how Group and Team
Coaching is so different from individual coaching.  The presence of group
dynamics introduces many new factors that a coach doesn't have to deal with
in individual coaching.  As a coach, you will often be coaching the group
itself how to coach itself, how to learn how its functioning, and how to
step up to more effectiveness.

 

In Group & Team Coaching You will learning that there are additional
"Conversations" in a group to the first seven conversations that we identify
in individual coaching.  There is the Rounds conversation, the Meta
conversation, Collective Learning, Problem-Solving, Mediation, Productive
Conflict, etc.  The details of these conversations are in the book on Group
and Team Coaching and the conversations that we practice in the training.  

 

You will also learn that about the need to distinguish different kinds of
groups.  That is, all grops are not the same.  There are intact versus ad
hoc groups, groups with leaders versus groups in which the coach will lead,
work groups versus learning or study groups, etc. 

 

And most importantly, you will learn about the skills which are required for
coaching a group and/or a team.  In setting up the feedback form for this
level, I kept the basic format that Meta-Coaches are already familiar with.
And to them, there are now some new sub-skills inside of them.  One
difference in group coaching is that we start with Framing.  There is then
Group Support, Group Listening, Group Questioning, Group Feedback, and Group
State Induction.  Three additional skills that we focus are: Group
Functioning, Group Leadership / Governance; and Group Closure.

 

Groups that are managed well can become teams and that's yet another
learning, how that works and what's required. You will learn about the Trust
Spiral and how to build trust between yourself and the group, and between
the members of the group.  There's a lot to learn, a lot of experiential
practices to develop the skills, and then two days to see someone one stage
take a group and a group problem and coach that group to a resolution.  That
live demonstration is the peak of the training because that is where the
rubber hits the road.  Can the person who steps up to do that-can that
person coach that group?  All I can say is, Come and see!

 

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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

 

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L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

 

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