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
Episode 99: Behind the Design: Planning for Conflict
Episode 152: Transformational PD Part 3: Responding to Resistance