October 23, 2025
Reflections on a Team Coaching Journey
What if the greatest untapped resource in your organisation is not capital, tech or talent but your leadership team?
Here are some reflections from July on coaching a team in Hong Kong,
Before
Looking at the harbour before the team meets.
It’s a grey morning. The sky is heavy with clouds. The water is calm, but the atmosphere feels weighted. Rain clings to the window, blurring the view. There is a distant break in the clouds. Faint golden light is pushing through on the horizon.
Team coaching cannot change the weather. The team cannot stop the rain, disperse the clouds, or summon the sun, but coaching can help them see the weather differently. It can:
-Clear the fog on the glass: helping us see each other and our context more clearly.
-Invite perspective: offering new ways to interpret the stormy dynamics or patterns we’re in.
-Find the break in the clouds: noticing where there is hope, energy, possibility, even when it feels distant.
-Build shelter together: not to escape the weather, but to face it with more safety and shared strength.
-Chart the way forward: like a harbour pilot guiding a ship through murky conditions, team coaching helps the team steer with greater awareness, choice, and shared commitment.
-Invite perspective: offering new ways to interpret the stormy dynamics or patterns we’re in.
-Find the break in the clouds: noticing where there is hope, energy, possibility, even when it feels distant.
-Build shelter together: not to escape the weather, but to face it with more safety and shared strength.
-Chart the way forward: like a harbour pilot guiding a ship through murky conditions, team coaching helps the team steer with greater awareness, choice, and shared commitment.
The view can ground our work today, reminding us…
…that the weather outside is real. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
…that it doesn’t need to be sunny for meaningful change to begin.
…that sometimes just seeing the harbour and each other more clearly is the breakthrough.
…that the weather outside is real. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
…that it doesn’t need to be sunny for meaningful change to begin.
…that sometimes just seeing the harbour and each other more clearly is the breakthrough.
And what should we expect by the end of the day?
Not necessarily blue skies but perhaps clearer windows, more aligned navigation and a renewed sense that we are not weathering this alone.
That morning, as we began our team coaching journey, we said:
After
Team coaching doesn’t change the weather, but it can change how we see it.
Look at the view two days later. The water is the same; the city skyline hasn’t changed, but the light has shifted. And with it, the feeling.
We haven’t rebuilt the city. We haven’t solved every problem.
We haven’t turned into the best of friends or banished all our challenges.
But something important has happened. This brighter, clearer image represents what team coaching can do:
We haven’t turned into the best of friends or banished all our challenges.
But something important has happened. This brighter, clearer image represents what team coaching can do:
Reveal what was already there. The colours, the depth, the contours. They were hidden, not absent.
Restore perspective. When storms roll in, it’s easy to forget the bigger picture. Coaching helps us zoom out and reconnect to what matters most.
Bring light to patterns. Like sunlight piercing through cloud, the coaching process helps us notice our habits, our dynamics, and the unspoken tensions we live with.
Face the mountain, together. The challenges haven’t disappeared. But now we can see them and each other with more clarity and coherence.
So what did those two days achieve?
Not perfection. Not resolution. But perspective and possibility. A shared starting point that’s just a little clearer, a little lighter.
Team coaching isn’t about sunny skies. It’s about honest navigation.
It doesn’t change the harbour but it might change how we move through it. And sometimes, that’s exactly what a team needs.
It doesn’t change the harbour but it might change how we move through it. And sometimes, that’s exactly what a team needs.
Next steps:
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