Where Teams Come Alive: Introducing series 3 of the Teams Transformed podcast

What really happens inside a team coaching journey—and what can we learn when we step behind the scenes?

In this episode of Teams Transformed, Georgina and Allard introduce series 3 of the podcast: Where Teams Come Alive. Building on the rich conversations from their Moments of Emergence series, this next chapter takes listeners deeper into the lived reality of team coaching through the lens of a composite team journey.

Rather than presenting a neat, linear process, Georgina and Allard explore team coaching as something emergent, dynamic, and deeply human. They offer an honest look into the complexity, unpredictability, and relational challenges that arise when working with real teams—sharing not just what works, but what unfolds along the way.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Welcome to Teams Transformed, the podcast for people who want to see real team transformation.

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For courageous coaches, curious leaders, and anyone passionate about unlocking the true power of Teams.

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We your hosts, Georgina and Alard. Here to journey with you through transformational insights on how to coach teams with presence, depth, and emergence.

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Let's explore not just the tools but the art of transforming teams. Hello. Hi, Georgina.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Hi! Looking forward to this new series. What are we going to be talking about?

SPEAKER_01 0:37

So we just finished, uh, as some of you may remember, we just finished a series of interviews with uh eight different practitioners, which we had called Moments of Emergence. And uh we've completed that cycle for now, and so we thought, what can we do next? And uh the idea here is that we'll take you along with us on a team coaching journey. And I say a team coaching journey because at no point do I want people to think that this is the only way to move a team through through a series of interventions, but we'll we'll illustrate um a composite team coaching journey, so to speak, a typical team coaching journey. And we've called it Where Teams Come Alive. So welcome to a new series of eight podcasts called Where Teams Come Alive.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Great, and um, I like this title of Where Teams Come Alive because I think when you look at a diagram like uh our diagram, Team Coaching Journey diagram, which people can get from my book, or we'll put a handout in with this podcast, um, it it can make it look very processy, like it's a fixed set of building blocks and a fixed set of activities. And and what would be great to bring alive is actually how different every team coaching journey is, because the data and and the what is is different, and uh and to give perhaps the listener a little window into how we might process and debrief what we're experiencing along the way, yeah, and how we use that to then inform where we go next with the team.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Yeah, so it's still a very emergent approach in spite of the linear-looking diagram.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

And uh and the listener will be walking uh alongside us, messiness and all. So um, you can perhaps expect that it won't be crystal clear. This isn't going to be um, you know, a step-by-step intervention where where we're totally clear where we go next. We'll be working that out between us.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

I think of it almost as a um as a mosaic, George. With you know, like different pieces of a mosaic. And I think we'll have to wait until the end of the eighth, uh the eighth uh chapter of this series in order for the the full picture to emerge and make sense.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yes, as always. As always. As always, and it and and uh as often with team coaching journeys, you know, they one journey ends up being a phase that then opens up into another cycle of work. So after the eight episodes, we might be at um the destination, or we might be at a waypoint and we won't know till we get there. So let's see what unfolds.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

Yeah. So if you're listening to this and you're going, you know, I've always wondered what happens in the room during a a team coaching kind of intervention, uh, then I think this will answer a lot of your a lot of your questions. Maybe it'll bring up other questions and it'll give you ideas, I'm sure, on on how to develop your own philosophy of team coaching and the different pieces and bits and that that are involved and how to how to deploy an intervention over um, let's say uh a six or six or twelve month kind of period.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

I'd love to see what people come out with.

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Yeah, so by all means, you know, sh keep sharing with us as a result of listening to these uh to these chapters. Thanks for joining today's Journey of Teams Transformed.

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If this sparked a new insight or a deeper question, we invite you to sit with it, not to solve it, but to let it unfold.

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For resources, community, and reflection prompts, visit teamcoachingstudio.com.

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Until the next time, stay present, stay curious, and keep leaning into the art of emergence.