Teams, Leadership and Coaching

The essence of coaching is holding: supporting and challenging leaders, teams and organizations while they are busy making change happen. The coach offers a way of designing and leading learning opportunities for people involved in planned change. This book will show how such coaching is done.

Thomas Sewerin has thirty-five years of experience as a coach in different branches of business organizations in Sweden and internationally. In this book he has put together the most common themes that come up in the organizational environments he is working with. The book will address questions like, "What is a high performing team - and how can we get there?" "What do we talk about when we talk about leadership, and what is good leadership?" "How is coaching different from leadership and management?" "Change, why so difficult, and how do we succeed with our intentions?" "What works? What does a coach do that will make a difference for clients?"

Teams, Leadership and Coaching has a simple layout. Every chapter covers a way of looking at organizations and team phenomena. Then there are case studies and reflection exercises for the readers. It will provide inspiring and creative guidance for leaders, coaches and teams in the complex dynamics of social systems.

Teams, Leadership and Coaching is a work book for teams. It provides guidelines to stop and reflect on team behavior, needs and current challenges. It is a handbook for students in the coaching craft. It is a gold-mine for consultants and learning coaches with its rich variety of examples and approaches to all kinds of coaching needs.

Teams, Leadership and Coaching is exceptional in that it focuses on coaching teams and larger social systems. It is unique in its utilization of art, films and literature as a means of clarifying important concepts and ideas of coaching.