Want a high performing team, collaborating at the highest level?
TEAM COACHING & DEVELOPMENT
Is your team thriving?!
Would you like it to? Do the business results need it to?
With team coaching you can take your team to the next level. It is different from team building or training.
It's team development, with the team in charge.
What if your team was like this?
✅ You feel a sense of energy and inspiration when you walk in the room.
✅ You're about making things happen, also when the team lead isn't pushing for it.
✅ Each and every team member takes responsibility and ownership.
✅ A team that works.
✅ Achieving great results, with a sense of ease and fun.
Sounds good, right? That's what we call, a team with a Spark! ✨
TEAM DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS
SPARKED YOUR INTEREST?
This is how it works 👇
1. SOUNDS GOOD
I've Sparked your interest
This is where you have decided that what you read or heard, resonated.
Contact me and let's move things forward 👇👇
2. Spark Check
Chemistry call
We'll have a 30-ish minute chat (free of course), to see if there's a spark. I'll assess and be honest about whether I think I can help and whether I'm the right person for you.
3. ACTION
Let's go!
You have decided you want to work with me, yay!Well do the paperwork, agree a date...and it's all ready, set, go!
CONTACT
Liked what you read? Let's see if there's a spark!
Contact Marlies at Spark unlimited here.
Spark unlimited is based in Reading, UK (close to London). Marlies operates all over Europe, online or face-to-face. In Dutch or English.
Call, text or e-mail:
+44 (0)7812 180719
TEAM BOOSTER
Clarity about the team's goals, about how you want to work together and getting the team to commit are THE most important ingredients for effective team performance. Fact.
That's exactly the purpose of this Team Booster: to get the basics rights.
Boost your team -new or existing- with a shared team vision, team goals that the team have set themselves (on WHAT you want to achieve but also HOW you want to work together), team commitment, and a plan to get your team to work more effectively. In just one day.
Having clarity and team commitment will have a big impact on your team.
Both on results and morale. And it helps keeping everyone accountable!
I call that a Spark! ✨
What’s included in this Team Booster day:
✅ Online questionnaire to assess the team’s current effectiveness and highlight areas that need attention (worth £35 pp)
✅ High-paced, interactive and fun day with the team
✅ 90 min follow-up consultation with the team lead, including advice on future steps to increase effectiveness.
Investment*:
£2990,-
* Excludes expenses for travel and venue. Includes Team Questionnaire plus Team report
Some practicalities:
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Session can be done Face2Face or online (potentially 2x half a day)
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Maximum team size for face to face sessions is 12 people. Bigger teams can be discussed (the session may need to be longer).
When is this a team booster not so suitable?
This is a light-hearted programme, working on the foundations of good team work. If your team has serious issues and/ or a long history of problems I'd recommend an intake conversation with each team member, plus a further follow up with team coaching (only if the full team commits to that).
In doubt? Let's discuss.
HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAM PROGRAMME
Spark unlimited's flagship programme for a high performing team.
A 6-8 month Team development programme, to make a sustainable change. Monthly sessions -face to face or online- with the whole team, aimed to make a real and sustained difference.
What's included?
✅ Online questionnaire ahead of the programme to assess the team’s current effectiveness and highlight areas that need attention (worth £35 pp). In some cases I might recommend personal intake conversations with each team member.
✅ Team Booster day: Kicking off the programme with the basics of good team work. Getting clarity about where you want to go as a team and how you want to work together. And get full commitment (the team will vote Go/ No Go).
✅ 4 x Team Coaching follow-up sessions*: team sessions to work towards the team goals.
✅ 5x follow-up consultations with the leader of the team (90 mins, online).
✅ Each session custom designed, based on the specific needs of your team.
Some practicalities:
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Session can be done Face2Face or online.
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Maximum team size is 12 people. Bigger teams can be discussed (the session may need to be longer).
Investment:
Prices vary dependent on size of the team, team history (personal intakes may be required), delivery mode (face-to-face or online) and length of the sessions.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
about Team Coaching
WHAT IS TEAM COACHING Let’s start with what team coaching isn’t: it’s not training. I’m not here to “teach” you or your team how to do your job, or a new skill. Team coaching is about helping your team take ownership of their own development. It’s about putting them firmly in the driver’s seat. We shine a light on the patterns in how you work together and ask the all-important question: Do you want to keep doing things this way, or is it time for a change? My role as a team coach is to help you get there. I’ll make the team aware of what’s happening, challenge unhelpful habits, and guide you toward meaningful change. From there, we'll experiment - getting to know and try out new behaviours, experiencing firsthand what works (and what doesn’t). And here’s the magic: it’s the team itself—not me—that takes responsibility for creating real, lasting improvements.
WHAT KIND OF TEAMS IS IT FOR? Team coaching can deliver the goods for all sorts of teams. When a new team is being formed and needs to hit the ground running. Or a key team is not working as effectively as it could, and the team leader and members agree that they want to do better. A long-established team has lost its sparkle and wants to regain it. Or a top team wants to become a role model for the rest of the organisation. Again, what's important is that the team itself takes the responsibility and decides where it wants to go.
DOES TEAM COACHING WORK WITH VIRTUAL/ REMOTE TEAMS? es! Your virtual or remote team can be a dream team too!! We'll simply take Team Coaching online. Tried and tested. And succeeded! The rules of being an effective team apply as much to virtual teams as face to face ones. And remote meetings definitely can be effective and fun! You could compare remote team work with an e-reader: it may initially feel not as good as a real paper book, but when you look at the many advantages (small, you can read in the dark, lightweight, it's many books in one) it might actually be better!
AND THE RESULTS? And the results? I hear you ask. Well... The team achieving the goals they themselves formulated ✅. No more elephants in the room ✅. Clear agreements and agreed ways of working ✅. Ways to deal with and address each other when the going gets tough ✅. Focus ✅. A positive energy, a joy to work together and business results ✅✅✅. I would call that a Spark✨!
IS TEAM COACHING THE ANSWER FOR ALL TEAMS? The short answer is "no". Team coaching isn’t always transformational. If there is no desire in the team for collective improvement, then the impact will be very limited. Equally, the team leader needs to see that change involves them as well. That's why I always ask the team explicitly for commitment. And they have the option to say no. That's OK. So yes, a bit of courage and being open to change is required. For the team and their leader.
WHAT SIZE TEAMS DO YOU WORK WITH? For Face to Face (F2F) sessions I keep a maximum of 12 team members. For online sessions the group can be maximum 9 members. Bigger is possible but then sessions might need to be longer. So for bigger groups: let's talk.