Integrated Success Coaching Team Coaching
Team Coaching is an evidence-based practice that treats the team itself as the client. The coach does not give answers or train the team on a curriculum. Instead, the coach creates a structured space for the team to slow down, see its own patterns, try new ways of working, and build habits that hold up after the engagement ends.
At UK, Team Coaching draws on systemic team coaching research, especially the work of Peter Hawkins, and on decades of team effectiveness research from scholars like J. Richard Hackman and Amy Edmondson. It is grounded in the idea that the most important challenges a team faces rarely live inside one person. They live in the space between people, between teams, and between a team and the system it sits inside.
- Who is eligible: Any student team at the University of Kentucky who are trying to reach a shared goal, for example:
- research labs
- class group projects
- student organizations
- student employee groups
- Team size: Roughly 5 to 12 people who work together regularly.
- Time commitment: Recurring team sessions across one semester or one academic year, plus brief discovery and review conversations with the team leader.
- Confidentiality: What is shared inside team sessions stays inside the team. Team leader(s) receive summary themes and progress reviews, not individual statements.
Hours of Operation
By Appointment
What to Expect
Every engagement is shaped to the team, but most follow a similar arc:
- Discovery conversations. The coach meets with the team leader and, when helpful, the team's sponsor or stakeholders to clarify purpose, scope, and what success will look like.
- Team diagnostics. Light-touch tools (such as the Team Pulse Check) help the team see how it is functioning today, in language the team can act on.
- Live team sessions. The team meets regularly with the coach. Sessions focus on the team's real work, not hypothetical exercises. The team practices new ways of deciding, communicating, and holding accountability together.
- Between-session experiments. Small, low-stakes shifts the team tries in its normal meetings and projects, with reflection at the next session.
- Mid-point and closing reviews. Structured checkpoints to evaluate progress, adjust the work, and capture what the team has learned so the change continues after coaching ends.
Questions? teamcoachingisc@uky.edu
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