Training and seminars
Seminars and team coaching
Team coaching does not pass on content: it works on a team's real situation — cohesion, how people work together, a shared vision. Team coaching and seminars, in French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland alike.
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Team coaching
For a team that no longer decides, two departments passing responsibility back and forth, or a group reshaped after a reorganisation. The work starts with a diagnosis, which may conclude that the problem is not where everyone thought.
- Name what is really blocking the team, including when it calls the leader's own way of working into question
- Restore a way of deciding that the team respects
A training course passes a method on to a group. Team coaching starts from the opposite end: one team, a situation that is stuck, and work built around it. The two complement each other, but they do not answer the same request, and confusing them wastes everyone's time.
Team coaching works on the group as a whole: a leadership team that no longer decides, two departments passing responsibility back and forth, a team reshaped after a reorganisation. It requires the sponsor to accept that the diagnosis may call their own way of working into question — otherwise the process soon comes to a halt.
Cohesion seminars are a shorter format, often residential. They are useful for rebuilding connections and setting a common direction; they do not resolve an entrenched conflict, and we say so before selling one.
Individual coaching for a leader or manager is not a training course: it is presented on a separate page.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between team coaching and training?
Training passes a method on to a group that shares a common need. Team coaching starts from one team's particular situation and builds the work around it, with no predefined programme. If your need is “our managers must learn to delegate”, that is training. If it is “this leadership team can no longer reach decisions”, that is team coaching.
How long does team coaching last?
The reference format is two days, designed with the sponsor according to the objective and the size of the team. For a team that needs to change how it functions for good, it can be spread over several sessions after an initial diagnosis.
Can a cohesion seminar resolve a conflict within the team?
No, and it is important to know that before organising one. An entrenched conflict is dealt with through mediation or team coaching, not two residential days. A seminar placed on top of an unresolved conflict usually makes things worse, because it forces a conviviality nobody feels.
Do you also offer individual coaching?
Yes, as one-to-one support, presented on a separate page. It is not a training course: it has no programme and is built around one person's situation.