Who are you serving as a Team coach? Practical dilemmas to be addressed while you coach

Learning goals:

–  Master Stakeholder Collaboration: Understand how to partner with stakeholders (team leader, members, co-coaches) from contracting to closure
–  Facilitate Growth for Leaders and Teams: Learn to encourage dialogue and reflection, helping teams and leaders identify and achieve goals
–  Navigate Dynamics Ethically: Gain strategies to avoid relational traps and political games while embodying a coaching mindset

ICF Competencies:

Coaching competency: Demonstrate ethical practice: Coaches the client team as a single entity

Coaching competency: Embodies a coaching mindset: Remains objective and aware of team dynamics and patterns

Coaching competency: Establishes and Maintains agreements – Partners with all relevant parties, including the team leader, team members, stakeholders, and any co-coaches to collaboratively create clear agreements about the coaching relationship, processes, plans, development modalities, and goals;

Partners with the team leader to determine how ownership of the coaching process will be shared among the coach, leader, and team.

Coaching competency: Facilitates client growth – Encourages dialogue and reflection to help the team identify their goals and the steps to achieve those goals

Share two client case studies and invite participants to discuss and debate on the most appropriate approaches related to partnering with different stakeholders during the team coaching process from the very beginning when contracted towards the closure of the process, maintaining a coaching mindset and facilitate client growth individually, for the leader and for the whole team.

Share our best practice on strategies to contract, position and partner with clients in order for a proper team coaching process to happen.

Madi Radulescu, MCC, ACTC, MBA, with an international experience of coaching, training and facilitation of about 30 years, in 14 European markets. Passionate about people, leadership development, she pursues a career as a coach, mentor-coach and supervision in coaching. Passionate about discovering and contributing to the human side of managing and developing organizations, she works with leaders and assists teams in their development, writes about leadership and speaks in various conferences on topics associated with leadership development, personal values and organizational health principles. ICF volunteer since 2020. Past President ICF Romania.

Rareș Manolescu is a PCC and ACTC with 28 years of consulting, 18 years of coaching, and 20 years of management experience. Specializing in strategic growth, crisis resilience, and leadership transitions, he’s empowered over 19,000 leaders across 34 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Americas, and Asia. With 3,800+ coaching hours, Rareș has driven results like 35% sales growth for multinationals. He helps CEOs and HR leaders navigate 2025’s challenges with clarity and impact.

Moderator: Ira Cebotari