Building Top-Performing Teams: A practical guide to team coaching for organizational success - Hardcover

Widdowson, Lucy; Barbour, Paul J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1398620734 ISBN 13: 9781398620735

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2025

Synopsis

Are you unlocking the full potential of your teams?

Building Top-Performing Teams by Lucy Widdowson and Paul J Barbour is a strategic guide for leaders, executives and coaches who want to maximize collaboration, engagement and performance across diverse, multi-skilled teams.

Updated with new research on team coaching, diversity, neurodiversity and inclusion, this edition provides proven tools for fostering purpose-driven teams that deliver measurable business results. With more than 60 tools for both virtual and in-person environments, it equips team coaches to drive collective performance, resolve conflict and align teams with strategic objectives.

You'll discover how to:
- Build team cultures that prioritize collaboration over individual silos
- Motivate, develop and reward teams with diverse skills and priorities
- Manage conflict constructively and sustain high performance
- Apply reflective questions and exercises to embed learning and action

Combining strategic models, evidence-based insights and practical exercises, Building Top-Performing Teams enables senior decision-makers and coaches to lead teams that are engaged, aligned and delivering results that drive enterprise success.

Themes include: leadership, team performance, diversity and inclusion, governance, conflict resolution

About this title

About the Authors

Lucy Widdowson is the Founder and Director of Performance Edge Consulting. She has over 30 years' experience and has worked at board level as HR Director at The Body Shop and Head of HR at Virgin Nigeria Airways. She is also a UK Associate Board Member for the International Coach Federation.

Paul Barbour is Lead Facilitator at FXL Performance Management where he works with tech start-ups, blue chip multinationals and third sector organizations to develop and coach their teams for improved performance. Prior to this, he worked in-house at the Kerry Group Plc

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398620734
• ISBN 13: 9781398620735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 424