Your Team Has Talent. So Why Does It Still Feel So Hard?
When progress is slow, trust is patchy, and energy is flat, it’s not about effort—it’s about how you’re working together. Team coaching helps remote and hybrid teams build the clarity, trust, and cohesion to finally click.
remote and hybrid teams coached to high performance in 2024–25
years helping teams build trust, communicate better, and deliver results
engagements with mission-driven and high-performing organisations
Our Clients Say
We knew we needed to do a re-set and re-group on how we needed to work as a team. Having Different Duck work with us to help steer, facilitate and at time challenge us was really helpful. We hadn’t undertaken any team coaching before so it was a leap into the unknown We are working better – and differently – as a team and have a tangible plan for our development moving forwards – all catalysed by the team sessions and discussions.
The Hidden Strain of Leading a Remote Team
Leading a remote team sounds like freedom. In reality, it often feels like friction.
You’re managing across time zones, juggling personalities and preferences, trying to build trust through a screen. Some days the team hums. Other days, it’s crickets.
You’re stuck in a loop of stepping in, patching gaps, holding it all together. The more you do, the more they depend on you. It’s not sustainable.
And it’s exhausting.
Even when performance looks solid on paper, you can feel it: the energy is fragile, ownership is patchy, and conversations don’t go deep enough. You know the team could be more aligned, more connected, more courageous. But the usual fixes don’t seem to shift things.
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Why Team Coaching Is Different
Workshops are great for solving clear problems. But when the issues are dynamic, subtle, or woven into the day-to-day, you need something deeper.
Team coaching works with the whole team over time, helping them:
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Uncover what’s really getting in the way
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Develop new habits of communication, decision-making, and trust
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Learn how to operate at a higher level, together
It’s bespoke. It’s emergent. And it’s built around your team’s real work.
Sessions respond to what’s live for the team, not what’s on a rigid agenda. We coach the team as a system, not just as individuals in a room.
And alongside team coaching sessions, I coach the team leader one-to-one. Because leading a team through change takes clarity, resilience, and support.
What Changes When
We Work Together
Team coaching isn’t about transformation in a day. It’s about meaningful progress, over time.
Here’s what leaders start to notice:
The team starts leading, not leaning.
They step up. Take ownership. Make things happen.
Conversations get real. Trust builds.
Challenges get named and resolved.
Remote starts to feel close.
Energy, rhythm, and connection grow, even across screens.
You stop carrying it all alone. The team aligns.
You lead with more space, more confidence.
Performance, wellbeing, and purpose rise together.
And culture becomes a byproduct of how the team shows up.
What It Looks Like
No two coaching journeys are the same, but here’s a shape you can expect:
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Diagnostic phase
Interviews, surveys, and observations to uncover what’s really happening in the team
Coaching sessions
Typically 4-6 team sessions over 2-3 months, online or in-person, built around the team’s real conversations
1:1 leadership support
Leadership coaching for the team leader throughout the process to help you lead with clarity and intention
Ongoing reflection and feedback
Regular reviews to adapt the work based on impact, energy, and insight
Is This Right for Your Team?
Team coaching isn’t for teams in crisis — it’s for teams who are already performing, but sense there’s more potential waiting to be unlocked.
Maybe things look fine on the surface. Performance is steady. People get on. But under the day-to-day, there’s a sense of… something missing.
You’re not pointing to one broken process — you’re feeling a deeper question:
What kind of team do we actually want to be?
Team coaching is ideal for:
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Remote or hybrid leadership teams navigating complexity across distance
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Teams in transition — new structure, new goals, new leadership
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Leaders who want to build something sustainable, not just put out fires
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Teams who sense untapped potential — and want to do the work to reach it
If, on the other hand, you know exactly what’s off — poor meetings, unclear roles, feedback not landing — one of my targeted workshops may be a better first step.
