Team Coaching Program Template
Three documents and three sheets that reconcile the sponsor's goals against the team's own and give every commitment exactly one named, present owner.
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Goal Reconciliation · Solenne Freight, Regional Leadership Team · sponsor Renata Boyce, CEO · gathered independently, before either side saw the other's list
Eight distinct goals, three of them named by both sides
| Goal | Sponsor | Team |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse-to-fleet handoff delay | Named | Named |
| Decisions relitigated the week after they're made | Named | Named |
| Safety incidents reaching Finance and CS before Ops has briefed anyone | Named | Named |
| Driver turnover at the three worst terminals | Named | Not named |
| A clean monthly view of freight-damage claims by terminal | Named | Not named |
| Actually finishing what gets agreed in the room | Not named | Named |
| Fleet's maintenance backlog surfacing secondhand, not from Marcus | Not named | Named |
| Customer Success hearing about delays from customers, not from Diane | Not named | Named |
3 of 8 distinct goals overlap, a 37.5% combined share. The other two fractions say different things: 3 of the sponsor's own 5 items, 60%, are things the team also independently named. 3 of the team's own 6 items, 50%, never appeared on the sponsor's brief at all.
Both lists were gathered before either side saw the other's: six independent team answers, not one group discussion, then deduped and reconciled into this table.
Search team coaching program template and most results are an executive coaching template run six times, one file per person, with a sponsor's brief at the top and no artifact the team itself ever sees. ICF's team coaching competencies require the coaching agreement to be agreeable to the team leader, the team members and the sponsor, not to whichever one commissioned it. This pack gathers the sponsor's goals and the team's own goals independently, before either side sees the other's list, and reconciles them into what both actually share.
The team itself has a second problem no coaching template names: a commitment assigned to "the team" is a commitment nobody owns. Darley and Latané's 1968 study on bystander behaviour found that responsibility for helping diffuses in direct proportion to how many people are believed present, so everyone assumes someone else has it and nobody acts. This pack's Commitment Register records exactly one named owner per commitment, checks that owner against real session attendance, and reports completion separately for named-owner and no-owner commitments instead of one blended rate.
Solenne Freight's regional leadership team shows what the reconciliation actually catches. The CEO named five goals and the six-person team's own independently gathered list named six; three overlap, a 37.5% share of the combined distinct list. The Team Dynamic Assessment's baseline scored follow-through, whether a commitment gets done without somebody chasing it, at 1.8 of 5, the lowest of five dimensions. After the ownership rule, completion went from zero of three commitments to seven of eight. Run the individual sessions this team's members might also need with the executive coaching engagement pack.
What's in the pack
Programme Design
The sponsor's goals and the team's own independently gathered goals, reconciled into named-by-both, sponsor-only and team-only, with the overlap as a real fraction. A single coachee only ever needs one development plan, not a reconciliation.
Session Guides
What each of the six sessions has to produce, not just discuss, from the kickoff's independent goal-gathering through the closing re-score and completion review.
Team Agreement
The decision rules, meeting norms and commitment rule the team drafts and signs itself, kept only if two members asked separately would name the same owner.
Team Dynamic Assessment
A baseline and a closing re-score across five observable dimensions, scored independently by all six team members on identical wording both times. The equivalent baseline for one person is a 360 or Hogan debrief.
Session Tracker
Who was actually in the room for every session, the record the Commitment Register checks each owner against before a commitment is ever entered.
Commitment Register
Exactly one named owner per commitment, checked against real attendance, with completion reported separately before and after the ownership rule instead of one blended number. A dozen individual coachees get the same discipline from session notes and continuity.
How it works
- 1
Open in River, or take it blank
Open the pack in River and send the sponsor's brief plus however you've gathered the team's own input, or download the Word documents and CSV sheets and fill them in yourself.
- 2
Gather both goal lists independently
Ask the sponsor first, then ask each team member separately before anyone sees the sponsor's list, so six real answers exist rather than six people agreeing with the first name in the room.
- 3
Score the baseline, find the blocker
Run the Team Dynamic Assessment before session two, average every dimension across all respondents, and name whichever comes out lowest as what the sessions spend the most time on.
- 4
Enforce one owner per commitment
Push back on "the team" as an owner in the room, and check every name against that session's real attendance before it goes in the register. Track every team's booked sessions with the client pipeline pack.
Frequently asked questions
Is this template free?
Yes. The zip is Word documents and CSV sheets, no account and no card. Edit with AI is the optional half: the agent reconciles the sponsor's and the team's independently gathered goals, and sets up a Commitment Register that already enforces one named, present owner per commitment. The rest sit in the template library.
What format are the downloaded files?
Three Word documents and three CSV sheets in one zip. The sheets carry the columns that matter: one named owner per commitment, whether that owner was present when it was assigned, and the dimension score before and after. Open them in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, and the documents are .docx.
Why gather the team's goals separately from the sponsor's?
Because showing the team the sponsor's list first anchors their answers to it, and the independent items never surface. ICF's team coaching competencies require the agreement to be agreeable to the team leader, the team members and the sponsor, not just whoever is paying, which only works if the team's own list exists before anyone compares.
What if the team can't agree on who has final call on a decision?
Then it isn't a decision rule yet. The Team Agreement only keeps a rule if two members, asked separately, would still name the same person for it. Where the team can't agree, that gets said openly and worked in session rather than written down as a compromise nobody will actually follow.
Is this different from just running a facilitated workshop?
Yes. A facilitated decision workshop is built to get one decision made in a single room. This pack runs across six sessions over months, producing a document, the Team Agreement, that the team drafts, signs and keeps enforcing on itself long after the engagement ends.
Does the sponsor see what's discussed in sessions?
No. The sponsor sees the ratified Team Agreement, attendance per session, and, at closing, the completion rate and the assessment re-score. Session content and the confidential pre-engagement check-in each member has individually with the coach both stay with the team, the same boundary the executive coaching engagement pack draws for one coachee.
Reconcile the goals before session one
Take the Word documents and CSV sheets blank, or send River the sponsor's brief and the team's own input and get a reconciled goal list with a real overlap fraction.
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