Leadership Team Coaching - 4th Edition by Peter Hawkins (Paperback)

About the Book

Develop collaborative and effective leadership teams to create high-performing organizations with this popular guide by leading coaching expert, Peter Hawkins.

Book Synopsis

Organizations are most effective when the teams responsible for their success work together collectively and in a dynamic relationship with the rest of the company. For those involved in developing leadership teams, understanding coaching practices and techniques is essential for enabling the best performance.

Leadership Team Coaching provides a comprehensive roadmap for team coaching, explaining all the key elements alongside practical tools and techniques for developing international and virtual teams, executive and non-executive boards and project and account teams in all types of organizations. Featuring case studies and insights from organizations including Deloitte and General Electric (GE), it also contains guidance on choosing the best team coach, creating a team-based culture and common pitfalls to avoid.

This fully updated fourth edition of Leadership Team Coaching contains new material on agile teaming, using digital team coaching apps and AI, and training team leaders to coach their own team. It remains an indispensable resource for coaches and senior leaders as well as for those studying coaching as part of a degree or coaching qualification.

Review Quotes

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As complexity increases and uncertainty is one of the few certainties, team coaches, organizational consultants and team leaders must match the pace of change, becoming active participants in the co-creation of the future world, and the co-delivery of systemic value across multiple connections and partnerships.

The 4th edition of Leadership Team Coaching is an important reference guide to new concepts and contexts within this rapidly developing field. Essential reading for anyone who works with teams.

"-- "Barbara Walsh, Master Systemic Team Coach and Co-Director of www.teamsandbeyond.com. London, United Kingdom"

"In a world that has changed so rapidly and is increasingly accelerating, Peter has once again invited us to step into his greater garden of systemic wisdom, updating perspectives around diversity in teams, agile team working, psychological safety and the wider ecology within the field of team coaching. This work is a forward looking brave next step to be taken (most certainly!) by coaches and team coaches, but even more so by all those who sit in team meetings wondering if there is another way."-- "Ricardo Martins, General Director, CEGOC, Portugal"

"In the decade since the first edition of Leadership Team Coaching was written much has changed and in this new edition, Hawkins expands our vision of team coaching adding new approaches and tools to support each step in the process. He reminds us anew that no transformation can be led by a great individual or heroic leaders in these historically challenging times; instead, we need high value creating teams able to provide collective leadership. His final chapter highlights the historically challenges times we are living in and creates a thought-provoking agenda for moving forward. A must read for all coaches!"-- "Pam McLean, Ph.D., MCC CEO, Hudson Institute of Coaching California USA"

"Inspiring to see this benchmark guide to team coaching brought right up-to-date. It illustrates how team coaching can work virtually, and wisely addresses diversity, the new world post pandemic and the global climate crisis."-- "Dr. Catherine Carr, Author, Systemic Team Coach and Trainer, Vancouver, Canada"

"Peter's approach is a great blend of philosophy, psychology and real application for results. I feel fortunate to have been trained by him. This is the most practical coaching program available today, that is grounded in business results."-- "Sanjay Mitra, Leadership Coach, Team Coach & OD Practitioner. Member ODLC [OD, Leadership and Change] Hub Committee At NTL Institute For Applied Behavioral Science, US"

"The area of team coaching is one in which we all still have so much to learn. Peter continues to be our guide and this latest edition will be another well-thumbed, annotated, and highly regarded book on the shelves here at Belbin HQ."-- "Jo Keeler, Partner, Belbin, Cambridge, UK"

"This book is deservedly a business canon of the twenty first century. A seminal text used worldwide whenever team coaching is considered. In this fourth edition, Prof. Peter Hawkins includes new material that keeps this classic text current and introduces new ideas to push the industry forward. A must have!"-- "Dr Marc Kahn, Global Head of People & Organisation, Investec Plc and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, London"

"This wonderful masterpiece is the absolute almanac for anyone who appreciates the power and potential of teams- powerful and prolifically practical it will support leaders, coaches, consultants and anyone who acknowledges the importance of collective wisdom in enacting systemic transformation. A must have."-- "Paula Wilson, CEO Wilson Sloan Consulting, Master Executive Coach, Team Coach, Coach Supervisor, Northern Ireland, UK"

"Whether you're a seasoned team coach or leader or have just started working with teams, the fourth edition of this seminal publication is an important resource. Hawkins' enhanced content is impactful and inspires us to be revolutionary."-- "Tammy Turner, CEO, Turner International, Australia"

"With thought-provoking insights and practical tips in every chapter, this book is a resource you'll return to again and again."-- "Jessica McNicholas, Executive Coach for Senior Leaders and Teams, Refraction Consulting, California, US"

About the Author

Peter Hawkins is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, UK, and a visiting professor at the University of Bath, UK, and Oxford Brookes University, UK. The President of the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS) and the founder and emeritus chairman of Bath Consultancy Group and chairman of Renewal Associates, he has worked with many leading companies internationally, co-designing and facilitating major change projects and coaching boards and leadership teams. A regular keynote speaker at international conferences, he is also the author of several books including Leadership Team Coaching in Practice, also published by Kogan Page.