Celebrating Success: Dr Joanne James, Prof. Sharon Mavin and Dr Sandra Corlett

Congratulations to Dr Joanne James, Prof. Sharon Mavin and Dr Sandra Corlett on the recent publication of their paper “A Framework of Modes of Awareness for Team Coaching Practice ” in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring.

Based on Joanne’s doctoral research, the paper builds on previous team coaching studies exploring the different roles and approaches of the coach. This paper is novel as it serves to recognise the multiple perspectives under consideration when choosing a course of action with a team. Further, it explores the thought processes involved when a coach chooses one course of action over another.

The research aims to add value to practising coaches to stimulate thinking about their own practice and builds awareness of how certain assumptions may dominate our practice approach. The paper will inform our organisational coaching module in the newly validated MSc Coaching and Mentoring which will take its first students in 2021,

Abstract:

Team coaching is an organisational practice with insufficient empirical and theoretical foundations. This research contributes empirical insights from a 12-month autoethnographic study focussing on what team coaches do and how they do it. We illuminate the micropractices that inform sense making and team coaching approaches during emergent practice. The research contributes the new concept of modes of awareness for coaches to reflect on the knowledge and experience that inform multiple perspectives required for advanced practice. We build on existing conceptualisations of team coaching practice to present a framework of modes of awareness that integrates diverse streams of theory and practice.

Full reference: James, J., Mavin, S. and Corlett, S. (2020) ‘A framework of modes of awareness for team coaching practice’, International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 18 (2), pp.4-18. DOI: 10.24384/t724-vm40