Project Overview
Service: Team coaching
Sector: Defence
Year: 2024
Duration: Two weeks
The Challenge
A brigade-level team engaged me across a sustained training activity focused on three things: command post functions, team self-awareness, and the harder tactical judgement required in large-scale operations.
My Approach
Rather than simply flagging procedural gaps, I focused on building the team's own capacity to notice and correct itself. We did this through structured after-action reflection, rehearsed drills, and deliberately creating space for staff to exercise initiative within their commander's intent.
The clearest thread across the engagement was that technical and procedural skill was rarely the limiting factor. The limiting factors were confidence to act and a habit of learning from each decision point. Addressing that meant coaching leadership behaviour as much as staff process.
The Outcome
A team that left the activity with more than a list of fixes. It left with a stronger habit of self-directed learning that it can carry into the next cycle without me in the room.
