Group and Team Coaching

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. Christine’s career encompasses senior leadership, 30 years’ consulting and writing, and recognition of lifetime contributions to the coaching profession. www.thorntonconsulting.org.

Author’s 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 10. Virtual group and team coaching 11. Team coaching II: understanding and tackling difficult patterns of behaviour 12. Managing beginnings, middles and endings: boundaries of the group Part 6: Navigation and further learning Afterword to the third edition Suggested further reading Frequently asked questions References and bibliography Index