Team Coaching: A Psychodynamic Approach

GROUP AND TEAM COACHING

Abstract

In modern world information is easy to get while environment constantly changes so the ability to learn fast and to act within uncertainty is a competitive advantage of a company. Business becomes more a project-like, needs horizontal management and requires from employee not only expertise but well-developed cross-functional communication skills, high emotional quotient for difficult negotiations, readiness for change and to introduce changes, winning over own resistance to transformations as well as others. Despite the fact that more and more processes turn automated the most subtle and complicated emotional moments are still a human privilege. Coaching is a longtime partner of organizational development as a team-coaching comes to replace indoor- and outdoor-trainings for team- building. There is a psychodynamic approach to team-work in this article that allows to study not only rational, conscious and known, as well as irrational, controversial and confusing assumptions, feelings; intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup and organizational conflicts that lead to dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behaviour of team members and organizations as a whole.