Becoming a Team Coach: The Essential Icf Guide

How can you become the best team coach you can be? Written by highly experienced and award-winning authors and speakers, this book will help to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional team coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the Gold Standard for team coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is both well informed by evidenced and up to the highest professional standards. The book will also help you as you undertake a team coaching training program, as part of ICF team coaching development.

“Becoming a Team Coach is a critical resource created by top executive coaches that offers a cumulation of the authors’ experience and knowledge in the field. This guide provides practical frameworks and expert advice for both new and experienced coaches and combines theory with real-world applications for the most effective teaching. Whether you're just beginning or looking to refine your skills, this guide will help you make a significant impact.”
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

“Team coaching is a fast-growing phenomenon in the professional coaching field. Yet, there are still some misunderstandings, lack of clarity and frankly some mis-information. This book is a great resource for anybody who is interested in either being trained in team coaching or engaging this service for their organization. Easy to navigate and very practical, it is a real comprehensive resource for all.”

Magdalena Nowicka Mook, CEO International Coaching Federation

“As the world of coaching evolves, learning how to be a team coach is both a survival strategy for practitioners and a way to add more value to clients. While competencies have a role to play, the core skill is to move beyond them --- this book maps out how to achieve this”.

Prof. David Clutterbuck 

Jonathan Passmore is an award winning and internationally respected chartered psychologist, Professor at Henley Business School, Senior Vice President, EZRA and past Chair of the British Psychological Society Coaching Psychology Division. He has written and edited over 40 books, including The Coaches Handbook Series with Routledge, Coaching Tools Series with Libri and the Wiley Blackwell I/O Psychology Handbook series of eight volumes. His work has been translated in to multiple languages. He has also contributed over 150 book chapters and 100 peer review journal articles to the field. His recent titles including Becoming a Coach: The Definitive ICF Guide (2nd ed) (Springer, 2024) and the International Handbook of Evidence-based Coaching: Theory, Practice and Research (Springer, 2022). Prior to his current roles Jonathan has worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and OPM.
 
Lucy Widdowson is an accredited executive and team coach, and a graduate of the Henley Business School, MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change programme. She is the co-author of Building Top Performing Teams (Kogan Page, 2020 with Paul Barbour) and has acted as an advisor to the International Coaching Federation on the development of team coaching competencies. She currently runs her own team coaching business, as well as being a tutor of the Henley Professional Certificate in Team, Board and Systemic Coaching. She also regularly speaks at webinars and events on team coaching.
 
Paul J. Barbour is an accredited executive and team coach. Paul’s interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. An award-winning student on the Henley MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change, Paul was also awarded ‘Best Newcomer’ to Personal Construct Psychology at the 14th Biennial European Personal Construct Association Conference. Paul is a writer and speaker with strong interests in conflict resolution, human needs and team coaching. He has recently co-authored Building Top Performing Teams with Lucy Widdowson on team coaching. Paul is also a lead tutor on the Henley Professional Certificate in Team, Board and Systemic Coaching.
 
Katerina Kanelidou is an ICF Master Certified Coach, director of the Team Coaching Global Alliance, and founder of the Team Coaching Global Summit. Based in Greece, she works with leaders and teams worldwide, drawing on 30 years of experience. A coaching educator since 2010, she speaks regularly at international events and was a SME in developing the ICF Team Coaching Competencies and the ACTC speciality designation. She holds an MA in Dramatherapy and Psychodrama from the University of Barcelona.