Coaching Teams Tools

Tools from The Art of Coaching Teams

Welcome to the downloadable tools for Art of Coaching Teams. Here you will find worksheets, checklists, and other documents to augment and enhance the material available in Elena’s Art of Coaching Teams.


Chapter 1

Exhibit 1.1 – Dimensions of a Great Team – A Tool for Reflection

Exhibit 1.2 – Indicators of an Effective Team

Exhibit 1.3 – Do We Need a Team?


Chapter 3

Exhibit 3.1 – Team Temperature Check


Chapter 4

Exhibit 4.1 – Transformational Coach Team’s Mission and Vision

Exhibit 4.2 – Determining a Team’s Mission and Vision

Exhibit 4.3 – Transformational Coaching Team’s Core Values

Exhibit 4.4 – Team Member Roles and Responsibilities

Exhibit 4.5 – Example of a Team’s Communication Agreements

Exhibit 4.6 – Transformational Coach Team Goals, 2013-14


Chapter 5

Exhibit 5.1 – Examples of Norms

Exhibit 5.2 – Example Of Agenda For Norm Building

Exhibit 5.3 – What Do Our Norms Mean?

Exhibit 5.4 – Reflection Questions On Our Norms


Chapter 6

Exhibit 6.1 – Indicators of a Team’s Emotional Intelligence

Exhibit 6.2 – Forty-Four Ways to Build The Emotional Intelligence of a Team


Chapter 7

Exhibit 7.1 – Reflection Questions on Communication

Exhibit 7.2 – Patterns of Participation

Exhibit 7.4 – How Do I Listen?

Exhibit 7.5 – Behaviors that Foster and Undermine Effective Conversations


Chapter 8

Exhibit 8.1 – Example of an Agenda for Decision Making

Exhibit 8.2 – Decision-Making Grids

Exhibit 8.3 – Fist to Five Decision Making

Exhibit 8.4 – Consensus-Building Process Checking

Exhibit 8.5 – Decision-Making Norms

Exhibit 8.6 – Feedback on Decision-Making Process


Chapter 9

Exhibit 9.1 – Indicators of a Learning Organization


Chapter 10

Exhibit 10.1 – Example of a Team’s Meeting Schedule

Exhibit 10.2 – Outcomes for Team Meetings

Exhibit 10.3 – Meaning-Making Protocol

Exhibit 10.5 – Stages of Team Development


Chapter 11

Exhibit 11.1 – Check List for Facilitating Meetings and Professional Development


Chapter 12

Exhibit 12.1 – Reflecting on Conflict

Exhibit 12.3 – Sentence Stems for Healthy Conflict


Chapter 13

Exhibit 13.1 – School Teams’ Organizational Alignment – Example of RISE UP Middle

Exhibit 13.2 – Am I in a Toxic Culture?

Exhibit 13.3 – Indicators of Trust in Schools

Exhibit 13.4 – Organizational Conditions for Effective Teams


Appendices

Appendix A – Facilitator Core Competencies

Appendix B – Team Effectiveness Self-Assessment

Appendix C – Community Building Activities And Random Grouping Strategies

Appendix D – Facilitation Planning Tool And Facilitation Observation Tool

Appendix E.1 – Activities For Meetings – Consultancy Protocol

Appendix E.2 – Activities For Meetings – Feedback Protocol

Appendix E.3 – Activities For Meetings – Chalk Talk

Appendix E.4 – Activities For Meetings – Dyads

Appendix G – Plan For Team Building

Recommended Podcast Episodes

Podcast Starter Episodes

Episode 99: Behind the Design: Planning for Conflict

Episode 152: Transformational PD Part 3: Responding to Resistance