Contribution to a collective work

Taillon, M.-D. Le coaching d’équipe : pour un leadership collectif renforcé des directions générales scolaires. In F. Gravelle (ed.), Unir les forces pratiques et théoriques pour favoriser l’évolution du domaine de la gestion de l’éducation !. Les Éditions JFD.

In this chapter — drawn from a narrative literature review — Marie-Dominique Taillon examines team coaching as a lever for developing collective leadership. She shows that, in environments shaped by complexity, uncertainty and pressure, the individual development of leaders is no longer enough: it is also the team’s capacity to learn, reflect and act as a collective that must be supported.

The chapter distinguishes team coaching from other modes of professional development — individual coaching, mentoring or communities of practice — and highlights its particular value: supporting the team as a living, interconnected system, called to produce together what no member could carry alone.

This contribution extends her work on governance, team support, and the conditions that allow collectives to work better, understand one another better and hold up over time.