Different approaches work for different needs. Group and team support often blends coaching and training, depending on what will be most helpful for your people and context.
Group coaching brings together people working on shared themes or challenges. It’s not simply training or facilitation — it’s a reflective, interactive process where individuals learn with and from each other under skilled coaching guidance.
Group coaching works well when people are:
navigating similar pressures or roles
developing shared confidence or capability
learning to think differently about how they work and lead
Team coaching focuses on an intact team, people who work together regularly toward shared goals. The emphasis is on how the team functions as a system: communication, trust, decision-making and collective responsibility.
Rather than focusing only on individual performance, team coaching supports teams to:
strengthen collaboration
surface unspoken dynamics
align around shared purpose and ways of working
Alongside coaching, I also deliver training-led sessions where teams or groups need shared language, clarity or grounding.
This is particularly useful for:
developing shared leadership or management values
aligning expectations around ways of working
introducing frameworks that support wellbeing, inclusion or accountability
creating common understanding before or alongside deeper coaching work
Often, training and coaching are combined, for example, a values-based leadership session followed by group coaching to embed learning into everyday practice.
Some teams benefit most from:
training first, to build shared understanding
coaching alongside training, to deepen reflection and application
coaching alone, where alignment already exists
We’ll always choose the approach that best supports your people, not a one-size-fits-all model.
This blended approach:
reduces confusion between training and coaching
supports clarity and meaningful behaviour change
helps teams move from knowing, to doing, to sustaining change over time
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