Can team coaching serve as a vehicle for leadership development in addition to generating better business results? How does team coaching create collaborative energy across teams and organizations? What happens when team coaches slow down the action in order to allow moments of truth to surface? Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest Dr. Hilary Lines to explore these and other interesting topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast!

Dr. Hilary Lines is a Founding Partner at Touchpoint Leaders where she is a practicing Executive and Team Coach. She is also a Faculty Member in team coaching at the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), and a co-author of the book Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations (with Jacqui Scholes-Rhodes). Themes covered in this episode include:

• Lines’ journey from business researcher to HR professional working with R&D teams, to leadership development and change management consultant and later to Head of Partner Development at Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting, to leadership coach and consultant at IBM, to leading her own Executive and Team Coaching business and becoming a Faculty Member at the Academy of Executive Coaching.
• Teams as nested entities
• “Leadership at the Touchpoint” as first described in Touchpoint Leadership: Creating Collaborative Energy Across Teams and Organizations (Lines and Scholes-Rhodes) that spans individual, team and organizational coaching
• Organizations as networks of relationships; relationships as the prime source of value creation in organizations
• Team coaching as a vehicle for leadership development and creating collaborative energy
• Leadership as residing in the relationships between individuals, teams and organizational systems
• Hilary Lines and John Leary-Joyce’s forthcoming book on Systemic Team Coaching
• Story of coaching a team in a professional services firm
• The role of team leaders in team coaching engagements
• Moments of choice as team coaches: Slowing down the action in order to surface moments of truth 
• Coaching individuals on the team in addition to the team and the team leader
• Team coaching as a learning process
• Insights into the training of team coaches: the What, the How and the Who
• Trends in the team coaching industry
• Resources for team coaches and more…

This is yet another episode chock full of learning gems for team coaches. Get into the Team Coaching Zone today and let Dr. Hilary Lines help you take your team coaching practice to the next level! To learn more about Dr. Hilary Lines visit: www.TouchpointLeaders.com. For episode show notes and more information on team coaching go to: www.TeamCoachingZone.com.