What is Team Performance Coaching?
External challenges should be where most of your team resources go – connecting with customers, capitalizing on market trends, staying ahead of the competition, creative problem solving, etc. Your team cannot do that well if the bulk of their energy is focused on internal challenges – distrust, ineffective meetings, miscommunication, lack of engagement, lack of motivation, etc.
Tools and structures that unleash the real power of your teams.
Create positive, sustainable and measurable results.
of teams rate themselves as high performing!
Leaving 9 in 10 struggling or outright dysfunctional.
Source: Team Coaching International
Team performance coaching is the deep dive you need to solve problems at their core and take your team, and company, to the next level.
A Team Performance Coach guides you to…
As a certified Team Performance Coach, CPCC, MCC, bestselling author and motivational speaker, Melissa helps teams go from good to great, and from great to masterful.
Melissa’s team coaching practices utilize unique and, most importantly, measurable systems developed by top coaches, educational institutions and business leaders, blended with her own fun and engaging approach.
She is a down-to-earth leader with a natural talent for team performance coaching that connects with teams and individuals at all levels. She is known to be empathetic, but assertive in her coaching style, and enjoys an excellent track record working with high performing individuals and teams.
What is the purpose of this style of workplace coaching? Team Performance Coaching is about delivering results that strengthen your business by strengthening the people within it.
What is high performance coaching in business? Almost everyone within your organization has it in them, right now, to be a high performing member of your team who delivers incredible results and is a key contributor to the success of their team and the organization overall. High performance coaching, like team performance coaching, unleashes that potential to strengthen your organization by strengthening the people within it.
Each team member has an impact on the performance of the team overall. That influence can be positive, or negative. By beginning with the individual self, by building confidence and reinforcing the natural strengths and talents of each member, the whole team can then be strengthened, aligning all those strengths and talents with the team goals and values to create incredible big picture outcomes for the organization.
A cornerstone of team coaching in business is, “what gets measured gets improved.” CEO of Your Life Team Performance Coaching takes that to heart because we know how true it is. This is why Melissa runs team assessments and development processes. With our training, tools & ongoing support we’re seeing breakthrough results for clients with real, lasting improvement.
Every team is a dynamic, living system with its own characteristics, personality, strengths, weaknesses, spoken and unspoken rules, and even moods!
The Team Diagnostic assessment takes a deep dive into your team “system”, focusing on two key areas: productivity factors (leadership, alignment, goals, etc) and positivity factors (trust, communication, constructive interaction, etc).
The result is a clear picture of what drives your team, what areas need work and what you need to do to bring your team up to the next level.
How would you assess the health of your organization? What are its strengths and where can it get stronger?
High performing organizations excel in two key areas: competency and culture. They have the tools, experience and know-how to make things happen, and a culture that empowers its people to put those competencies into action.
The Organization View assessment takes a deep dive into these two areas to show you exactly where you need to strengthen, as well as the high-performing areas to preserve and take even further.
The success of leadership is measured by the success of the team. The Team Leader View assessment provides insightful measurement of the current impact of team leadership and where developments need to happen.
Beyond that assessment, this diagnostic aims to shift leadership mindset towards the team as a whole – rather than focusing primarily on the strengths and weaknesses of individual members – in order to understand how best to guide the team forward and align it with corporate objectives.
Feedback is most useful when it is specific and measurable. But it also must be candid. When feedback is reserved or vague, it simply isn’t helpful. Feedback is also best when it comes from a diverse group of impacted stakeholders.
This assessment goes beyond internal team members to gain honest, candid and measurable feedback from customers and other stakeholders who are directly impacted by the team’s performance.
Keynotes, workshops and trainings are patterned to address the unique challenges of each client. Melissa, CEO of Your Life Team Coach, leads all workshops with a:
Commitment to Client Objectives, Vision and Values
Compassion for Business Owners and Their Struggles
Focus on Developing Emotional Intelligence in Teams
Determination to Develop Future Leaders
And the Courage to Say the Hard Things
“In a complex world, success is not possible without teamwork.” ~Malcolm Gladwell
Melissa’s HR, coaching, leadership skills and positivity were invaluable assets to our company. She hired and trained a great team, gave our employees tools to bring out the best of themselves in their work and helped us co-create an engaging culture. She also helped strengthen team relationships and communication. You can have the best product or service in the world, but if you don’t have a strong team behind it, you aren’t going anywhere. Melissa helped us build that strength.
Melissa was invited to Medtronic as a motivational speaker, where she captivated the audience with her dynamic presentation skills and her ability to both engage and influence a room. Her workshop is well thought out and is complimented with a crisp presentation, the combination makes working with Melissa- impactful, educational and most importantly – fun!
As a follow-up to her workshop, Melissa (a certified Co-Active Coach) also worked 1 on 1 with employees to ensure they were clear on how to implement and sustain the tools she introduced in her talk.
How can you coach a team for high performance?
The best leaders often see themselves as coaches. A coach is always watching for untapped strengths, looking for areas to strengthen, being open with people about what needs work, guiding them to become their best, is mindful of interpersonal relationships within the team, and so on.
Most importantly, a coach does this with compassion, courage and even vulnerability. Even difficult conversations come from a place of empathy and wanting others to succeed and thrive. A coach is never the star, but is often the true MVP of a high performing team.
As a leader, understanding how to coach a team for high performance starts with doing the inner work to fully understand and accept your own unique strengths, passions and areas for growth. We can only lead from where we are. When you do the work to lead yourself with full acceptance, compassion, courage and clarity, you become the kind of leader that can coach others to greatness.
How can coaches improve team performance?
A professional coach can help in different ways, depending on the needs and goals of your team or organization. The most impactful way is often through coaching your leadership team to become coaches within the company, so that you are able to create a global coaching culture that is fully energized towards growth – growth of your people and teams, so that they can grow your business.
Coaches can also work directly with your team members to uncover unique strengths and bring them forward, as well as do the deep work of uncovering the root causes of any struggles or perceived limitations within the team or organization.
When a team and its leadership do the hard work to embrace understanding without judgement, see growth opportunities instead of limitations, and have the difficult conversations that need to be had, nothing is allowed to fester and become a bottleneck. Work, ideas and communication flow smoothly, while performance and engagement skyrocket.
What is the purpose of this style of workplace coaching?
Team Performance Coaching is about delivering results that strengthen your business by strengthening the people within it.
What is high performance coaching in business?
Almost everyone within your organization has it in them, right now, to be a high performing member of your team who delivers incredible results and is a key contributor to the success of their team and the organization overall. High performance coaching, like team performance coaching, unleashes that potential to strengthen your organization by strengthening the people within it.
Each team member has an impact on the performance of the team overall. That influence can be positive, or negative. By beginning with the individual self, by building confidence and reinforcing the natural strengths and talents of each member, the whole team can then be strengthened, aligning all those strengths and talents with the team goals and values to create incredible big picture outcomes for the organization.
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Ready to take your company or group to the next level? Melissa’s holistic approach delivers unconventional and highly impactful workshops, interactive talks and group coaching sessions that help attendees tap into their core truth, their unique talents and strengths, and their leader within so that they can bring it all forward with confidence.
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Melissa Dawn guides executives and high-level leaders to step into their full power and become the leaders they know they are meant to be. She is a renowned executive & leadership coach, keynote speaker, workshop leader, bestselling author, master practitioner of energy medicine and the founder of CEO of Your Life. Having transitioned from two decades of corporate experience to building her own business, Melissa has a strong understanding of what it means to truly thrive in our professional lives in a way that not only complements our personal lives, but lifts up our full life experience and that of the people around us. As a Master Certified Coach, Melissa takes a holistic, values-led approach to guiding executives and high-level leaders to become agents of positive change by connecting with their inner leaders. Through innovative workshops & coaching programs, Melissa works with individuals, teams and organizations and has helped thousands become the CEOs of their personal and professional lives with confidence, success and joy.
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