GROUP & TEAM COACHING UPDATE

We have just completed the second training in Group and Team Coaching Assessment and graduating seven more with GTMC credentials. While I have run the skills training for the psychology and competencies of Group Coaching more than a dozen times around the world, this was only the second time for conducting part two—Assessing the skills of Group Coaches. Seven applied for it and seven reached the benchmark competencies. Mandy Chai co-trained the 7 days with me in Guangzhou China and together we did the benchmarking.

As a result, I have learned a tremendous amount and am excited about doing the full training four times this coming year. One learning is this—Group and Team Coaching is both easier and more difficult than one-to-one coaching. It requires all of the skills of individual coaching and more. That makes it more difficult. It requires an exponential increase in being able to calibrate all of the participants, track their responses, listen to them, support them, question them, etc. This also makes it more challenging.