Project Team Coaching

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This is similar to Team Coaching but with a greater emphasis on achieving business objectives. Where a group of people come together to work on a high impact project, Performance Coaching can ensure the achievement of challenging project goals – within time and within budget. This is achieved through coaching and facilitated group discussion.

Case study

The challenge: A leading US investment bank needed to build a sustainable back office function in the Asia Pacific region. The client had a short timeline to grow the unit substantially and to extend and upgrade its capabilities whilst also focussing on cost efficiencies. This involved ensuring that the local employees rose to more senior positions thus releasing the expensive ex-patriate population. The firm needed to create a culture conducive to high performance that absorbed the best of both the local culture and the bank’s culture whilst mitigating against the worst.

The solution: In order to achieve this end result, there was a need for all parties to re-examine their values and approaches, in order that something new could be created. It was perceived that this could only be done with external coaching and facilitation. A programme was devised that began with a workshop designed to examine the senior team’s perceptions and cultural norms and what they considered possible in the region.

This crystallised into a commitment to a new vision and way of working that was agreed throughout the division. The process was supported by intensive coaching of the senior team on a one to one basis and as a team. A series of workshops for more junior staff was devised to help them embrace the new culture and develop the skills required.

The result: The intervention delivered against all the objectives, and further more, was a major success factor when the bank decided to move the bulk of its operations to another part of the region. The Project Team Coaching ensured that the senior team maintained a new way of working, despite extraordinary circumstances.

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