Keynote - Liz Goold
Supporting Healthy and Effective Teams in Changing Times - The role of Team Coaching
Liz is an experienced Organisation Development practitioner, facilitator and leadership team coach with over 25 years experience of working in the public and voluntary sectors in the UK and in Africa and Asia. She leads on OPM’s ILM endorsed OD practitioner programme, as well as the leadership modules on the Catalyst programme with West Midlands Councils.
Liz enjoys working as a leadership team coach with a number of local authorities helping them develop their collective leadership to handle cultural and strategic change, as well as becoming more effective teams in themselves. She is also an experienced executive coach working with Chief Executives and senior managers and is skilled at facilitating multi-stakeholder events, using methodologies like Open Space, World Café and Appreciative Inquiry.
Liz seeks to help individuals, organisations and communities create the humanising spaces and relationships where different kinds of conversations can take place. She sees this as key to supporting fresh thinking, collaborative learning and new ways of working, particularly in these times of uncertainty and complex change. She brings a contemporary approach to consulting and change, informed by her Masters in Organisation Consulting from Ashridge Business School.
Prior to OPM, Liz worked with international human rights and aid organisations in Africa and Asia and co-led a Masters-level leadership programme in Central and Eastern Europe. This has given her a strong interest in partnership and collaborative working across different organisational and societal boundaries and cultures.
Keynote description
Teams are an integral part of organisational life and are needed more than ever during these testing times of uncertainty and change. So, how might they be best supported?
Team coaching is increasingly seen as an effective way of supporting teams by bringing together the best of coaching, team development and consultancy approaches. In this interactive session, Liz will draw on current thinking, her own experience of team coaching with local authorities and your own experience of teams and individual coaching to explore some of the following questions:
- What makes for a healthy and effective team and how might a team coaching approach help?
- How does team coaching differ from other approaches to team or individual development- and does it matter?
- What might be needed to make the transition from an individual coach to a team coach?
Opening Address - Jan Britton (Sandwell MBC)