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Team Coaching: A unique team learning journey for practitioners and teams that creates capacity to confidently navigate tomorrow's world.

Co-created by experienced practitioners, our programme is a refreshing and challenging departure from traditional training programmes.

Participants embark on a transformative and empowering journey where they learn how to be both confident and competent Team Coaches.

This exciting new programme applies a 'learning by doing' approach and is designed for those looking to expand their skills and gain professional accreditation in the emerging area of Team Coaching. 

 

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"Having attended the Belbin Accredited Team Coaching Programme I have had an opportunity to deepen my knowledge of coaching and what it particularly means in a team context...and has played a key part in helping me shape my coaching philosophy."

Aidan Matthews (Cohort 1)

Programme duration & delivery

The programme consists of three CoLabs delivered over a nine-month period.

Belbin CoLabs are unique spaces for experiment in the areas of team coaching, team learning and team dynamics.

The spaces are provided with ongoing support to encourage individual and shared learning journeys, for the purpose of discovery by curating a culture of learning by doing.

Delivery is through a combination of in-person learning facilitated by the faculty, along with specified online individual learning support at key points during the programme.

Over the nine month journey you will experience individual and group mentor coaching sessions, peer learning sessions and self-paced reflective work. All of the work that we do together is focussed on each participants live work context.

Each cohort will be encouraged to come together to form their own learning community to expand learning opportunities beyond the formal learning interventions.

Delegates will be expected to participate fully as a member of this learning community and undertake their own further learning following their self-reflection and practical experiences through the programme.

What to expect from the programme

 

 

  • An immersive, collaborative and individual learning experience based on your own needs and circumstances.
  • Delivery by a faculty of internationally accredited and experienced team coaches.
  • Opportunities to live-practice team coaching and supervision, experiencing what it feels like to learn how to be team coached.
  • Challenge: be prepared to unlearn and create opportunities that will shape your own philosophy and purpose as a Team Coach.
  • An exploration of how we can create team presence and purpose by adopting an inside-out approach using the Inner Development Goals (IDG’s).
  • Discover how Belbin’s Team Role Theory can be used more proactively as an effective team coaching tool.*
  • A clear understanding of team development modalities.
  • A deeper appreciation of psychological safety and psychological flexibility.
  • Delegates are expected to be committed to their own learning which requires their full engagement for the duration of the programme. 

What not to expect:

  • A training course delivered to a rigid agenda, classroom style.
  • A ‘tick box’, ‘learn by rote’ approach which will provide everyone with a generic ‘toolkit for doing team coaching’.

*We encourage critical evaluation of any models and theories, existing and emergent, in the field of group and team development.

Is this programme right for you?

We need to be very clear – this programme will not be for everyone due to the approach it takes.

  • This programme is not a ‘tick box’, ‘learn by rote’ approach which will provide everyone with a generic ‘toolkit for doing team coaching’.
  • By the end of the programme delegates will be expected to have developed their own perspectives, style and philosophy alongside the confidence and ability to build and apply a personal approach to team coaching.
  • Delegates will require a high level of sustained energy and enthusiasm, an enquiring mind, a commitment to personal learning and development, and a willingness to continually practice and reflect.
  • The emphasis will be on ‘doing’, developing a team learning approach through experiential group work in an open and honest group environment.

If we’ve sparked your curiosity and interest in learning with us, why not book a call with one of our lead tutors? 

"Belbin Team Coaching has transformed how I understand and harness the power of teams. It’s given me the tools to lead with self-awareness, coach others to play to their strengths, and create space for real collaboration and growth."

Sharon Hartley (Cohort 2)

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Assessment and Awards

Over the duration of the programme, you will compile a portfolio of work that evidences your learning journey as a team coach.

The purpose of this is to track and evidence your learning journey as a team coach.

This will also inform your final piece of work which forms the formal assessment which demonstrates how you have developed your own thinking, philosophy and practice as a team coach.

 

Successful candidates will be awarded an Accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training (ADTCT) from the Association of Coaching.

Candidates who are already accredited to deliver Belbin Team Role Theory will gain the additional status of ‘Belbin Accredited Team Coach’. 

Those that are Belbin Accredited will also have their details added to the Belbin Coach directory.

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"The key thing for me was learning to distinguish between team facilitation and team coaching and understanding when to apply each approach for maximum impact. I have gained more confidence in adopting more of a team coaching mindset—encouraging the team to solve their own problems rather than providing solutions myself."  

Anthony O'Hara (Cohort 1)

Benefits of the programme

For Individuals

🟢 Achieve globally recognised accreditation as a Team Coach

🟢 12 months complimentary Associate Membership of Association for Coaching (AC) with access to the global community and resources

🟢 Personal development with enhanced confidence and effectiveness as a Team Coach

🟢 Recognise and deliver safe and ethical team coaching practice

🟢Build on existing skills and discover opportunities to transform your practice and career.

🟢 Be part of the Belbin Coach Directory (applies only to those who achieve Belbin Accredited Team Coach status).

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For Organisations

🟢 Empower the Board and/or Senior Leadership Team

🟢 Builds individual and team values, Developing team purpose and flow.

🟢 Adds a new dimension to using Belbin Team Roles, optimising ROI to build more effective teams.

🟢 Develop in-house practitioners in a powerful and emerging field

🟢 Demonstrates the value of becoming a continually learning, developing, and future-facing entity.

🟢 Develop a reputation as a forward thinking, resilient organisation, retaining and attracting the best talent

“The Belbin Team Roles model has given me the most precise behavioral language to work with real teams. It reveals what works, what breaks, and what can grow—not with judgment, but with sharp clarity. The Belbin Accredited Team Coaching Programme deepened that craft and added a new layer: seeing and sensing where a team—and its members—are ready to grow.”

 

Mats Soomre, Cohort 1

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Start your Team Coaching journey

Booking for Cohort 4 is now open.

Contact us to talk with one of Lead Team Coaches and start your team coaching journey. Fill in the form below.

Book a call

If we've sparked your curiosity, book a call with one of our Team Coaches. Pop in your details below and we'll be in touch.

The Practical Details

Programme cost

Just £7,950 + VAT per delegate, which includes:

  • Nine days face-to-face coaching development
  • Coaching supervision and support in-between CoLabs 
  • Personal Learning Journal resources
  • Final assessment evaluation
  • Professional post accreditation materials to showcase your achievement
  • Lunch and refreshments each day during CoLabs
  • Dinner on one evening during each CoLab

Note: Excludes delegate travel, accommodation and additional subsistence costs.

A non-refundable 10% deposit is required at time of booking.

Contact the Belbin office for full details of payment terms and cancellation policy.

 

Dates and venues for the face-to-face Colabs

These will be held at a venue in the Cambridge area. 

Cohort sizes are limited to maximise learning and enable the learning to be tailored to the needs of the individuals in each cohort. 

Cohort 4 dates* 

  • CoLab 1:  10th, 11th & 12th February 2026
  • CoLab 2:  2nd, 3rd & 4th June 2026
  • CoLab 3:  15th, 16th & 17th September 2026

Attendance on all days of the CoLabs and on-line support meetings for each Cohort is compulsory.

 

Meet the Lead Tutors

This unique Team Coaching programme would not be possible with the time, knowledge and dedication of our Team Coaching tutors.

This has been a journey which has included many professional and experienced team coaches who have given us their time to co-create this unique programme.

Lead Team Coach: Chris Jackson

Chris’ introduction to team coaching followed many years of running his own enterprises first in the Service sector and then Leisure and Tourism. Through his business activities he subsequently delivered business support to other organisations for over 20 years. In 2014, he ‘collided’ with academia and became involved in the delivery of the ‘Team Academy’ way of team coaching.

This involved immersion in the Finnish ‘Tiimiakatemia’ model with travel to Scandinavia and Europe to discover how this evolved, and its impact in practice. Chris went on to develop, deliver and lead programmes and modules that were delivered heuristically, with a dialogic approach.

Team coaching in this context differs from mainstream applications in that it generally focusses on enterprise learning programmes for young adults. However, moving on from academia, Chris has been able to use his own lived experience to synthesise the application of team coaching practice across different platforms and subject areas, always with a distinct focus on individual, team, and organisational learning.

Chris holds a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship from Durham University and has carried out doctoral research into team learning through the process of team coaching.

Chris’s Team Coaching Philosophy:

Chris believes that effective team coaching practice starts with the person and must not be wholly dependent on, or defined by, models, frameworks or theory. Its purpose is to curate spaces which foster transformative learning that enables participants to actively navigate complex scenarios and make sense of emergent problems as interdependent learners.

This requires humility and vulnerability along with recognition of competencies and attributes that go beyond models, theory and frameworks, whilst acknowledging ecosystems and our planet as stakeholders in organisational progress.

Lead Tutor: Dr. Elena Hinova-McNamee

Over the last ten years Elena has been coaching leaders, helping them expand their level of consciousness through rethinking and reshaping their values and beliefs. This enabling process encourages reconnection with their core selves, discovering deeper purpose & vision, and achieving sustainable success personally and professionally. She has coached extensively in Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Australia. In the last 5 years her focus has been on team coaching to enable regenerative organisational transformation.

Previously, Elena spent fifteen years in leadership roles in the corporate world - Human Resources Director and as CEO in one of the most human sensitive industries - Health Care and Pharmaceuticals.

Elena’s mission is to enable, through leadership and team coaching, the transformation of leaders and teams to thrive on purpose and inspire them to use their businesses as a force for good. Her company, Thriving Leadership™, is a Certified B Corporation, placing it among fewer than 10,000 businesses worldwide that meet high standards for social and environmental impact.

Elena has a PhD in Organisational Leadership and Coaching at New Bulgarian University (NBU). 

Elena’s Team Coaching Philosophy:

Elena believes every team is an interdependent whole with the innate capacity to sustainably thrive. Her role is to create and hold a safe space where a team’s potential can fully unfold. She inspires teams who are committed to transformation, and she coaches with integrity, honesty, courage, and wisdom. Her style is evocative and gentle, yet she challenges when needed – dedicated to growth and learning. 

As a Certified B Corp Founder and CEO, Elena believes that businesses can be a force for good.

 

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Start your Team Coaching journey

Booking for Cohort 4 is now open.

Contact us to talk with one of Lead Team Coaches and start your team coaching journey. Fill in the form below.

Book a call

If we've sparked your curiosity, book a call with one of our Team Coaches. Pop in your details below and we'll be in touch.