The Team Coach of the Year Award recognises an exceptional team coach who has helped a team unlock greater performance through deeper awareness, stronger relationships and healthier ways of working. The award celebrates coaches who create lasting change by developing the team as a collective, rather than simply focusing on short-term results.
Team Performance and Outcomes: The nominee should demonstrate evidence of measurable improvements in team effectiveness, performance or impact. This may include improved collaboration, delivery, engagement, innovation, customer outcomes or achievement of strategic objectives.
Human-Centred Leadership: The nominee should demonstrate an ability to create psychologically safe environments where people feel able to contribute, challenge constructively and perform at their best. They should help teams build trust, accountability and shared ownership.
Building Trust and Connection: The nominee should have enabled stronger relationships across the team by improving communication, increasing understanding of different perspectives and creating greater connection between team members and stakeholders.
Adaptability: The nominee should tailor their coaching approach to the unique context, culture and maturity of each team. They should demonstrate flexibility in responding to changing organisational priorities, team challenges and emerging opportunities.
Innovation in Team Development: The nominee should have introduced creative or evidence-informed approaches that have enhanced the team’s effectiveness, learning or performance. This may include new coaching methodologies, facilitation techniques, reflective practices or development frameworks.
Developing Collective Capability: The nominee should demonstrate how they have strengthened the team’s long-term capability by increasing self-awareness, emotional intelligence, decision-making, collaboration, resilience and shared responsibility.
Ethics and Professionalism: The nominee should consistently demonstrate integrity, professionalism and ethical practice, creating an environment built on respect, inclusion, confidentiality and trust.
Commitment to Professional Development: The nominee should demonstrate an ongoing commitment to developing their own knowledge and practice through supervision, professional development, research, reflective practice or recognised qualifications.
Sustainable Impact: The nominee should provide evidence of lasting change beyond the coaching intervention. This may include improvements in team culture, relationships, leadership capability, wellbeing, collaboration or organisational impact that have been sustained over time.
