Chapter 19

10 common team challenges

Through our research and work with managers we have identified 10 common team challenges (see Figure 19.1). You may recognise some, or many, of these challenges from your own team experiences. These are issues which can handicap your team and prevent it from moving forward, but by working on them with the team you can help to build and improve performance. With each of the challenges, we have outlined how managers experience these situations and how you can use coaching to help to improve and work on the situation.

The coaching approaches we suggest often encompass an element of self-coaching, where you can reflect on how you are currently handling the situation and identify some options and ideas for moving ...

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