Start Leading a Team That Owns The Outcome
You have a team retreat. You plan fun activities to bond with your colleagues. Perhaps you spend some time discussing the plan for the next period. You walk away with an agreed to-do list for everyone and fun memories with colleagues. A week later, that positive energy is lost in the day to day and nothing significant changes.
Meetings are spent revisiting old decisions, plans are made but never executed. Your team continues to work in silos, leaving you to manage the details that they should be owning.
What if it doesn't have to be that way
I work with executive teams of 5–12 people facing a leadership transition, a restructure, or misalignment due to a fast-changing environment.
If you need to go beyond training or process facilitation and want to change the culture of your team, I can help you through a structured process that leads to more honest conversations, fewer silos, and a higher level of trust. Most importantly, it shifts your team from focusing on process to taking collective ownership of the outcomes.
With my background in leading multidisciplinary teams of over 120 people and my training in Systemic Team Coaching from the UK Academy of Executive Coaching, I have witnessed first-hand the benefits of team coaching. In my experience, staff engagement increases significantly, particularly regarding clarity of vision, inclusion, and the visibility of senior leadership.
How does team coaching work in practice?
My job as a team coach is to guide your team through difficult conversations, creating an environment where team members can give each other honest feedback and drive collective accountability for results.
I have partnered with teams in the public and private sector, as well as the UN. Recognising that each team is unique, I tailor my coaching approach to meet your specific needs, but an engagement with me usually lasts 6 to 18 months over 3 phases:
- A rapid team diagnostic to go beyond the symptoms to the root causes of your team dynamics. You walk away with an honest assessment of your team dynamics, owned by your team and based on confidential one-on-one discovery sessions with your team members. I will present the results back to the group in a safe, candid, and productive manner so that even difficult messages create a call to action, not paralysis or blaming.
- Commitment workshop: In a focused alignment session, your team moves from identifying problems to designing the solution. Your team walks away with a specific agreement on who is responsible for what, how the team will hold each other accountable and how you will measure the success of your efforts. This is the moment when emotions and stress peak. I will help your team align on a framework to get out of those choppy waters and walk alongside you in the process.
- Accountability partner: I will work with you over the next few months to embed the changes, reminding your team of the commitment that they publicly made to each other and intervening before the team slips back into old habits. You walk away with a stronger commitment and accountability to make the changes your team agreed to a reality. At the end of this phase, we measure progress against the success criteria you agreed as a team.
"Roberto provided invaluable support leading my team through structural transformation. He understood complex organizational dynamics and delivered strategic direction and senior leadership alignment. His coaching had tangible impact on my leadership effectiveness and team performance "
Marina (Senior UN Official)
Frequently Asked Questions
Please email me at roberto@robertopitea.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Executive coaching focuses on improving an individual's performance. While that individual context is important (team, organisation, family), they are not active participants of executive coaching sessions. Sometimes coaching is delivered in group context (group coaching) whe
With team coaching, especially systemic team coaching, I engage with a whole team across five disciplines to understand how they work with each other and the wider ecosystem around them.
As a leader, you can probably diagnose how your team suffers from one of the Five Disfunctions of a Team (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability or too much focus on individuals' success).
The challenge is having open, constructive conversations about the underlying causes of these issues and, most importantly, get everyone to commit and stick to a way forward.
This is where team coaching can make a difference. With me, you have access to a coach for your team as a unit, facilitating this dialogue and walking alongside you throughout the transformation it will require.
Yes, you could spend your retreat agreeing milestones for the next planning period, or bonding together as a team. These are all worthwhile, but unlikely to sustain your team on a path to becoming a better version of itself.
I can prepare the groundwork and facilitate conversations at your team retreat that will put you on a better path. It can be a one-off, or as a part of a longer-term engagement.
Yes, if things need to change, your team will need to face some difficult facts. My job as a team coach is to guide your team through its Zone of Uncomfortable Debate (also known as the elephant in the room).
I do so with candour and empathy, underpinned by my strong experience facilitating these conversations in a number of organisations.
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