Team Coaching

The experience Chip provided was the first time for our executive team. We had the need to build a stronger chemistry and to enhance the level of collaboration. Even though we all know each other quite well since years of working relations, some conflict management and group dynamics need to be reinforced. Chip, with his solid coaching experience, provided us free spaces and fresh energy to discover our limit while pushing the boundaries and to find and explore our own way of connections.

He also provided operational suggestions on how to find a way to continuously improve, always finding alternative ways to the team’s (and Brand’s) success.

Our team at Noffs loves working with Chip.
His enthusiasm is infectious and his attitude is life affirming.
But he doesn’t let you get away with sub-par leadership. He’s just as tough on leaders as he is with team members.

Chip has a network-view of both the organisations he deals with and the wider world around him.
  Working with Chip is never a day off for the team, it’s a day out. Out of your habits, out of your old perspective, out of old dynamics and into bigger ideas, different ways of thinking and new ways of working.
  You always have a sense with Chip that he is wiser than he lets on and many of his wisdoms and teachings have stayed with me for years.
Chip has a great ability to work with groups but also to see the individuals and the dynamics of the whole team. The more you get to know Chip, the more he opens you up to new ways of seeing the world and your role within it.
Leaders who want to grow robust teams need to face up to robust questions about their own behaviours. Strong and healthy teams are created by strong and healthy individuals.

We’ve never had a session with Chip that wasn’t wonderfully challenging but that’s exactly what you want if you want an organisation that isn’t afraid of challenge or change.

I was fortunate enough to benefit from both the group [team] coaching and the one-on-one coaching, creating an environment of listening and reflecting on my team’s state of mind and where they stood as individuals and their understanding and influence in the organization. This opportunity with Chip brought a more comprehensive approach – a team one, complemented by a one-on-one sessions.

Along the three years journey, Chip used series of approaches that helped my Senior Management Team (SMT) and myself to take a break from our day to day routine, to come as a team and understand the importance of creating space for this team to step away and envision our organization, and our role and commitment into how we shape our organization for the future. [Also] through our coaching discussions with Chip, we identified program and operational effectiveness and resource mobilization as our priorities.
We had series of coaching sessions that led us, as the SMT, to move forward to become the lead organization committed to lasting health changes in Ethiopia. Chip pushed us further as those higher-level statements needed more deeper analysis, removing layers of vagueness, unclarity and fluff.

Even if our engagement with our coach was minimal in 2020 due to our shift to the COVID19 pandemic; the foundation established in the start resonated without us realizing it to shape our organization’s future and who I am as a leader, and as a person.