High Performance Team
Coaching

Erickson Team Coaching

Develop practical skills for stronger alignment, dialogue and shared ownership.

High-performing teams do not emerge from individual expertise alone. Teams also need shared direction, trust, constructive dialogue, accountability and the ability to work through differing perspectives.

Erickson’s High Performance Team Coaching training provides a clear and practical framework for supporting these conditions intentionally.

You learn how to work with the team as a system, rather than focusing only on individual team members.

The training combines Erickson’s solution-focused methodology with systems thinking, experiential learning and practical tools for real team situations. It enables you to facilitate stronger alignment, more productive conversations and greater shared ownership within teams.

Who is this training for?

For professionals who coach, lead, facilitate or support teams.

Coaches

Expand beyond one-to-one coaching and develop the skills, credibility, and confidence to work effectively with teams and organizations.

Consultants

Gain a proven structure for managing group dynamics, building alignment, and helping teams navigate complexity.

Leaders & CEOs

Develop practical tools to strengthen alignment, improve collaboration, and guide teams through complexity.

HR Professionals

Build the capability to foster stronger team dynamics, support employee engagement, and create cultures where collaboration can thrive.

Why capable teams still struggle

Recent Deloitte research* highlights agility, resilience and connected teaming as capabilities that support sustained high performance. Yet even capable teams struggle without shared direction, ownership and constructive dialogue.

Shared direction: Goals and priorities are not sufficiently aligned.
Team identity: People work alongside one another, but not consistently as one team.
Shared ownership: Responsibility and accountability remain unclear.
Constructive dialogue: Different perspectives become competing positions instead of productive thinking.

*Deloitte, January 2026

More than facilitation or team building

High Performance Team Coaching combines a systems perspective with Erickson’s solution-focused methodology.

Rather than focusing only on individual team members, you learn to work with the team as a whole and create the conditions for alignment, dialogue and collective action.

The training includes the Erickson Team Coaching Arrow™, experiential learning, guided practice and tools that can be applied directly in professional settings.

You will learn how to:

  • work with the team as a living system
  • establish alignment around shared goals
  • foster trust and constructive dialogue
  • navigate conflict and competing perspectives
  • strengthen accountability and shared ownership
  • guide teams towards effective action

Next training in Vienna

24–27 September 2026 · Four-day in-person training in English
Participation fee: €2,160 incl. VAT

Curriculum at a glance

The programme develops the foundations and practical skills required to conduct structured team coaching conversations. The curriculum is organised around ten learning areas.

Foundations of a High-Performance Team

Understand the conditions that enable teams to develop shared direction, trust and effective collaboration.

Setting the Relationship

Establish the working relationship and create the foundation for productive team development.

Building Team Development

Support teams in moving from individual positions towards stronger cohesion and shared responsibility.

Team Dialogue and Creative Thinking

Facilitate open dialogue and enable the team to use different perspectives productively.

Vision and Mission Alignment

Help teams develop shared direction and align their work around a meaningful vision and mission.

Valuing Diversity

Use differences within the team as a resource for connection, insight and better collective thinking.

Decisiveness and Effective Action

Support teams in turning shared thinking into clear decisions, commitments and coordinated action.

Team Spirit and Completion

Strengthen team spirit through reflection, acknowledgement, debriefing and conscious completion.

Team Culture

Recognise patterns and variations within a team’s culture and work with them from a systems perspective.

Conducting a Team Coaching Session

Integrate the programme’s methods and conduct a complete structured team coaching session.

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Learn through
practice,
not only theory

High Performance Team Coaching is an experiential training.
You observe demonstrations, work with the methods and practise
structured team coaching conversations.

Experienced Erickson Team Coaching trainers with ICF credentials guide the demonstrations, practice sessions and feedback.

The focus is on applying the tools in realistic team situations and developing
the confidence to use them in your own professional context.

You leave with a practical framework and tested tools for
supporting alignment, dialogue, conflict and collective action.

Recognition and Team Coaching Pathway

High Performance Team

Coaching

30 ICF Continuing Coach Education units

Erickson’s High Performance Team Coaching training is recognised by the International Coaching Federation as Continuing Coach Education.

Upon completion, participants receive:

27 Core Competency units
3 Resource Development units

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Advanced Certification in

Team Coaching

High Performance Team Coaching is the first component of the complete Team Coaching Certification Pathway.

The complete pathway includes:

1. High Performance Team Coaching
2. Advanced Team Coaching
3.
Five hours of Team Coaching Supervision

High Performance Team Coaching and Advanced Team Coaching together provide 60 ICF Continuing Coach Education units.

ICF Advanced Team Coaching Certification

Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC)
Participants can earn this credential after successfully completing all three pathway components.

Training Dates in Vienna

High Performance Team Coaching is the first component of the Erickson Team Coaching Pathway. Advanced Team Coaching builds on this foundation.

Good to know: High Performance Team Coaching can be attended as a stand-alone training. You do not need to be a professional coach. Completion of High Performance Team Coaching is required before progressing to Advanced Team Coaching.

High Performance Team Coaching

24–27 September 2026
Four-day in-person training in English
ITO GmbH, Vienna
€2,160 incl. VAT per person

Facilitated by:
Miglena Doneva-Doncheff and Carmel Lee Paul

Available discounts

  • 10% early registration discount until 24 August 2026
  • 10% discount for ICF-certified coaches
  • 15% discount for graduates of The Art & Science of Coaching
  • Special rates for several participants from the same organisation
Advanced Team Coaching

26–29 November 2026
Four-day in-person training in English
ITO GmbH, Vienna
€2,580 incl. VAT per person

Facilitated by:
Miglena Doneva-Doncheff and Carmel Lee Paul

Advanced Team Coaching deepens the skills developed in High Performance Team Coaching and prepares participants to lead complete team coaching engagements.

30 ICF Continuing Coach Education units

Discounts are also available for early registration, ICF-certified coaches, TASC graduates and multiple participants.

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What our clients & graduates 
say about the training

High Performance Team Coaching is a necessity for leaders and companies that genuinely want to retain, develop, and get the best out of their teams.
Khamidullin Shamil, inDrive
This is a powerful training packed with clear leadership methodologies, and easy tools for managers. What I liked best was the engaging practice – it was lifechanging!
Kim Reardon, VP Marketing
Through my corporate coaching with Microsoft, I have been strengthening my coaching skills by working with teams and supporting managers in empowering their teams and designing an environment that consistently generates innovation and bottom line results.
Teresia, Microsoft
This course is absolutely the most powerful life changing experience I have ever had. Because of this class, I have clear inner-self confidence to face a difficult executive team next week with courage!
Maria Dankalova, HR Leadership
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