In this episode Dr Natalie Lancer explores how to create and coach high performing teams with Dr Ruth Wageman, Kirsten Dierolf and David Webster. We dissect the coach’s role in working with teams by asking: What is team coaching? Why are two coaches better than one for teams? What’s the difference between team coaching and one-to-one coaching? What is the optimum frequency, duration and mode for team coaching? What are the skills needed to coach a team? What are typical team coaching interventions? What are the critical questions that need to be asked when designing and coaching teams? What are some of the common traps when coaching a team? Team coaching is a sought-after, fast growing and complex area in the coaching industry. More recently, teams are operating in hybrid environments, bringing together people working in different places, both virtually and in person. Our panel of experts today discuss the critical importance of teams and how coaching can take them from good to great. Our guests today are:   Dr Ruth Wageman is one of the foremost scholars studying and working with teams, especially leadership teams.  Ruth’s research, teaching, and practice are focused on the conditions that influence superb team performance.  Ruth especially focuses on teams that solve complex problems and lead system transformation. Ruth has been a professor at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Harvard.  Ruth co-wrote ‘Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make them Great’.     Kirsten Dierolf is the owner and founder of SolutionsAcademy, a global ICF accredited coach training academy.  She coaches executives and teams for global corporations and has designed and delivered several global initiatives for leadership development. She currently serves as the President of the German Chapter of the International Coaching Federation. Kirsten is a subject matter expert on team coaching. Kirsten is the author of ‘Solution Focused Team Coaching’. David Webster is a Chartered Occupational & Coaching Psychologist and is the Founding Partner at Centre for Teams, London. He has been coaching teams internationally for over 20 years and, in 2018, won the CEO Magazine Management Consulting Award.  He served as Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Coaching Psychology Group 2017-2019 and formerly led the School of Coaching. David is the author of ‘Creating Adaptable Teams: From the Psychology of Coaching to the Practice of Leaders.   Your host, Dr Natalie Lancer, is a Chartered Psychologist, coach and supervisor. She is the Deputy Chair and Secretary of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Coaching Psychology and an accredited member of the Association for Coaching. She is the host of this podcast series and invites you to email any comments to [email protected] https://www.bps.org.uk/member-microsites/division-coaching-psychology/podcasts © British Psychological Society 2022