088: Georgina Woudstra: On the Being of a Team Coach

How do we more fully integrate the "being" aspect of team coaching with the "doing"? What are the essential competencies that need to be internalized to successfully coach teams? How do we accelerate our learning as team coaches and as a team coaching community? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Georgina Woudstra to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast.

Georgina Woudstra is an ICF Master Certified Coach and Principal & Founder of the Executive Coach Studio (http://www.executivecoachstudio.com/). She has over 20 years of experience and specializes in coaching chief executives and senior leadership. She also trains team coaches through the Executive Coach Studio's Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery.

Some themes explored in this episode include:

• Georgina’s journey as a successful entrepreneur, her dive into the field of coaching and her development into coaching teams
• Coaching competencies needed to successfully coach teams
• Coaching presence
• Additional roles one may play that are separate from coaching and Georgina's stance on maintaining a “pure” coaching role
• Coaching the team 80-90% of the time
• How coaches use control and structure to manage anxiety vs. actually coaching the team
• The coach's relationship with the team leader and team
• Case example that shifted her team coaching practice from structure to emergence
• Her lessons learned on becoming a reflective practitioner by journaling and looking inward
• Process consultation and systemic team coaching
• How to accelerate your learning as team coach
• 4 module Diploma in Team Coaching Mastery
• Forming team coaching learning communities
• The relational element of team coaching as an emerging trend
• Reflections on the market need for team coaching and the importance of self-as-instrument

This is a great episode for coaches interested in learning how to navigate the art of team coaching. Georgina strikes at the heart of team coaching and creates a compelling case for the importance of the “being” of a team coach. This is an episode you will surely not want to miss!