125: Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour: Building Top Performing Teams

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TCZ Podcast #125: Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour: Building Top Performing Teams

In Episode #125 of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast I'm joined by a dynamic duo team - Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour, co-authors of Building Top Performing Teams A practical guide to team coaching to improve collaboration and drive organizational success (Kogan Page).

Lucy is Director of Performance Edge and a board member of the UK International Coaching Federation. During her 30 year corporate career Lucy worked at board level and as an HR Director in retail and airlines and led award-winning teams. Paul combines a global client base with practitioner research in human collaboration, team coaching and conflict resolution. His interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC, one of the world’s largest food and ingredients businesses. Both Lucy and Paul are lead tutors on Team Coaching at Henley Business School.

In this episode we focus on ways of being as a Team Coach including: - a framework to explore your Being as a Team Coach - the importance of contracting as a means to unleashing creativity - tools to bring out the collective wisdom of teams - how to get beyond your own story and self-limiting mindset - discovering your signature as a Team Coach

Find out more on Lucy and Paul here: Lucy linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson Paul linkedin.com/in/pauljbarbour

Find Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational Success (Kogan Page, January 2021). on Amazon, Google Books and Apple Books.