EMCC Global has launched a team coaching quality award and a professional designation.
EMCC Global, which has a presence in more than 140 countries, has worked closely with valued partners to develop the TCQA (Global Team Coaching Quality Award) and the ITCA (Global Individual Team Coaching Accreditation. When the accreditation was announced in May, Dr Mary Hartog, EMCC Global Team Coaching WorkGroup leader, said, “In the current context of lockdown from Covid-19, where team working and teaming has become virtual overnight, we can see how important team working is for now and for future work.
“Teams are central to how organisations function. They have the greatest potential for organisational learning and performance improvement, but they need good team leaders and team coaches who can foster collaboration and support high performance behaviours.”
The TCQA and ITCA both draw from the same set of core standards, which were developed, following research, extensive survey and ongoing dialogue, by EMCC Global and in collaboration with team coaches. The standards are:
- Multi-stakeholder contracting and relationship management
- Multi-stakeholder diagnostics
- Evidence-based methods of team effectiveness
- Systems thinking and group dynamics
- Team coaching models and approaches
- Managing the team coaching process
- Experimentation and adaptability
- Partnering with other coaches and facilitators
- Developing your own team coaching practice
- Supervision and reflective practice
- Understanding self and self-development
- Self-care and resilience
Erik de Haan, director of the Ashridge Centre for Coaching at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, and colleague Dorothee Stoffels, programme director of the Ashridge Team Coaching for Consultants Programme, running since 2015, said: “We feel it is essential that team coaches are able to provide a sound, in-depth, reflective service to leadership teams to enable them to be more effective and innovative. We welcome this important work by EMCC Global to create professional standards for team coaches that can inform a thorough accreditation process.”