Group and Team Coaching: The Secret Life of Groups [Paperback]

Group and Team Coaching?is a best-seller offering a new perspective on the secret life of groups, the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams.

Christine Thornton is an organisational consultant and supervisor, helping business leaders and coaches think through complex systemic and relationship dynamics, for better performance. Author of several books and papers, her most recent book, The art and science of working together (Routledge, 2019), develops her analysis of team coaching further. Christines career encompasses senior leadership, 30 years consulting and writing, and recognition of lifetime contributions to the coaching profession. www.thorntonconsulting.org.

Authors foreword: what this book can do  Foreword to the second edition  Foreword to the first edition  Acknowledgements to the third edition  Acknowledgements to the first edition  Part 1: Introductory  1. Introduction: what is group and team coaching?  Part 2: The concepts  2. Learning, holding and exchange  3. Looking deeper: the secret life of groups  4. Eight group factors influencing learning and change  Part 3: Organizations and teams  5. Understanding organizations, groups and teams: systems and complexity thinking  6. Team coaching I  Part 4: Learning groups  7. Learning group coaching  8. Supervision groups  Part 5: Practical steps for specific challenges and occasions  9. Strategies for tackling problem behaviour in groups lÃN