Building Top-Performing Teams: A practical guide to team coaching for organizational success, Edition 2
Lucy Widdowson · Paul J Barbour
Jun 2025 · Kogan Page Publishers
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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
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 the author
Lucy Widdowson MSc MCC ACTC FCIPD is an accredited executive and team coach, Director of Performance Edge and a lead tutor on team coaching at Henley Business School, UK. During her 30 year corporate career, she has worked as a HR Director and is a UK board member for team coaching for the ICF.
Paul J Barbour MSc PCC ACTC CBP is an accredited executive and team coach, with 20 years prior experience leading businesses and teams in Kerry Group plc. A writer and speaker with strong interests in human collaboration and conflict resolution, he is also a lead tutor on team coaching at Henley Business School, UK.
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