HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAM

High Performance Team Coaching is for professionals who regularly work with groups or teams and want more confidence, structure, and practical tools.

This includes leaders, managers, HR professionals, coaches, facilitators, consultants, scrum masters, organizational development practitioners, and team development professionals.

It is especially useful if you find yourself navigating competing priorities, disengagement, conflict, differing viewpoints, or complex group dynamics.

No. High Performance Team Coaching is not only for professional coaches.

It is designed for anyone who works with teams and wants to help them collaborate, align, and perform more effectively. Leaders, HR professionals, facilitators, consultants, scrum masters, and team development practitioners can all benefit from the program.

You will learn how to work with groups and teams from a systems perspective.

You will develop practical skills to create alignment, build psychological safety, navigate conflict, activate team intelligence, and help teams move beyond competing agendas toward shared direction and commitment.

You will also learn Erickson’s team coaching structure and practical tools that can be applied immediately in real team environments.

Yes. Leaders and managers can use these skills to lead more effective team conversations, build trust, improve collaboration, and help team members move beyond competing priorities.

The program helps leaders shift from solving every problem themselves to creating the conditions for the team to think, align, and take ownership together.

HR professionals can use team coaching skills to support stronger team cultures, improve collaboration, and help teams work through patterns that affect trust, accountability, and performance.

These skills are especially relevant for leadership teams, cross-functional teams, project teams, executive teams, and growing organizations that need a common language for working together.

One-to-one coaching focuses on the individual.

Team coaching focuses on the team as a living system. This means working with relationships, patterns, shared assumptions, group dynamics, communication, trust, alignment, and collective performance.

Team coaching helps the group develop stronger awareness, shared ownership, and the ability to think and act more effectively together.

It is an ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC)-aligned program that certifies coaches to lead team coaching engagements. The program includes High Performance Team Coaching, Advanced Team Coaching, and 5 hours of Team Coaching Supervision.

Graduates will earn the Erickson Certified Team Coach credential and become eligible to apply for the ICF’s Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC).

The certification includes three components: High Performance Team Coaching (8 sessions online or 4 days onsite), Advanced Team Coaching (10 sessions online or 5 days onsite), and Team Coaching Supervision (2 sessions online). The program includes a blend of theory and practical team experience, with the goal of equipping participants to step directly into a practical team coaching environment after completion of the requirements.

High Performance Team Coaching helps you build the foundational skills to work confidently with groups and teams from a systems perspective.

Advanced Team Coaching is for graduates of High Performance Team Coaching who want to lead complete team coaching engagements from contracting to completion. It focuses on sponsors, stakeholders, organizational complexity, conflict, longer-term team development, and advanced coaching competencies.

You will walk away with the ability to:

• Conduct full team coaching sessions applying Erickson’s unique team
• coaching structure
• Apply both social psychological and relevant brain science to ensure efficient interactions and productive conversations
• Discover and use the neurodynamics of strong systems thinking to create cohesion and collaboration
• Facilitate strong cognition and strong team ‘flow’ at the very same time
• Foster open and creative dialogue during team discussions
• Fire up clear, comprehensive, and logical team thinking processes
• Work effectively past objections and team conflict towards harmonious productivity

Yes, Erickson offers Team Coaching programs in both formats. Online and in-person options are available for various global schedules.

Yes, we have a strong international network of certified Team Coaches and can help connect your teams with coaches virtually or in person. Talk to our advisors about a customized Team Coaching offering for your teams.

Erickson’s approach is practical, solution-focused, and systems-based.

The program gives you tools you can apply immediately, while also helping teams work at a deeper level with values, core values, identity, shared purpose, and team intelligence.

This combination of practical structure and solution-focused depth helps teams move beyond surface-level discussion and create more meaningful alignment.