Building High-Trust,
High-Performance Teams
— On Purpose
Why Team Coaching?
Immediate and Lasting Results
Teams are the engine of every organization—and not just executive teams—all teams. Yet even high-performing teams can struggle to collaborate, communicate, and execute at their highest potential. Melissa Pagar Team Coaching will help teams build trust, alignment, and clarity so teams can do their best work together and deliver meaningful results. When individuals feel empowered and connected, teams become unstoppable. Melissa Pagar Team Coaching is especially equipped to help teams navigate:
Team silos and lack of trust
Poor communication or avoidance of difficult conversations
Conflicting priorities and unclear roles
Disengagement, burnout, or low morale
Decision-making bottlenecks
Slow execution due to misalignment
Unproductive conflict or culture issues
Why Melissa Pagar Team Coaching?
Rather than standalone one-on-one coaching, Melissa Pagar Team Coaching blends a holistic approach of coaching along with team building, training, consulting, mentoring, and facilitation as a unified and intentional development structure.
At the same time, your team remains in the driver’s seat. You determine what matters most, while Melissa Pagar Team Coaching provides assessments, tools, and guided conversations to help you uncover patterns, clarify priorities, and build capacity from within.
Type of Teams Served
Teams in any organization at any level
Senior leadership teams preparing for growth or change
Cross-functional teams delivering complex outcomes
Newly formed teams seeking alignment and shared identity
Hybrid and virtual teams navigating new ways of working
Project teams needing clarity, alignment, and accountability
After 3-6 months of Team Coaching, Teams Report
Improved communication and psychological safety
Faster decision-making and clearer roles
Strengthened trust and team cohesion
Increased accountability and follow-through
Reduced conflict and better problem-solving
Greater engagement, satisfaction, and morale
Clear alignment with organizational goals
Enhanced performance and business results
A group is a collection of individuals such as parents who want to learn more about how to be a better parent, or new supervisors who want to focus on leadership skills.
A team (three (3) or more people) is a living system within an organization that thinks and acts collectively towards the same goal.
Team coaching, based on the needs of the team, includes team building or team re-set activities, training, consulting, mentoring, facilitation and of course, coaching. This process is team-led, and the Team Coaches (it’s always better to have more than one Team Coach!) guide the team as they reach their full potential and set goals.
This is What a Team Coaching Engagement Looks Like
Team coaching generally lasts between three (3) to six (6) months, but could also extend beyond that, depending on the contract. A contract is meant to ensure that the sponsor or leader is aware of the process, roles, logistics, and most importantly, our confidentiality clause.
Once the contract is in place, it is time for our Team Coaches to get to know the team. This means one-on-one meetings with the team leader and each team member. Each individual team member will also be given a 360 assessment in preparation for our team kickoff.
The kickoff is generally a half-day to 2-day offsite, or if that is not possible, virtual and hybrid kickoffs are also possible. Kickoffs provide space to go over the 360 assessments results at the team-level, which reveal team strengths and possible gaps. This leads to focus areas that the team will want to work on either during the kickoff or during our future cadenced meet-ups. The kickoff also sets the tone in terms of expectations and ground rules for working together as a team going forward (during team coaching events as well as at work).
Cadenced meet-ups can vary in frequency but are generally every two (2) to four (4) weeks for no more than one (1) hour, depending on the needs and desires of the team. The focus of each meet-up is based on what the team identified during the kickoff, or based on a new focus that has recently come up. These meet-ups can be in the form of team and possibly one-on-one coaching conversations, training, or facilitation.
Once the team has worked on identified focus areas and have found ways of sustaining their learnings, it is time for closure and celebration! On the other hand, the team can always ask to extend the contract and ask for future “tune-ups,” if desired.
Melissa Pagar Team Coaching is founded in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Team Coaching Core Competencies and Framework. For more information, please visit ICF Team Coaching Competencies: Beyond One-to-One Coaching.
Confidentiality and Team Coaching
It is important for the sponsor or leader to be aware that what takes place during team coaching cannot be discussed outside the team or individuals within the team, without permission, regardless of who is funding the team coaching.
Confidentiality is essential because it creates the psychological safety that allows people to speak honestly, take risks, and explore real challenges together. Without it, coaching quickly becomes surface-level and ineffective.
A Quick Look at Assessments and Tools That Could Work for Your Team
These are just a few of many assessments and tools—we will work with the assessments and tools that best meet your team’s needs.
There are many 360 assessments out there to help your team discover your strengths and uncover possible future focus areas.
Leadership Circle Profile (fee self-assessment available)
Here is a sample of useful tools and activities to help teams reach and sustain their full potential.
Working Agreements (Roles and Accountability)
43 Communication Games for Teams
Melissa Pagar
As an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC), and Center for Executive Coaching Team Coach-in-training, I am a humble, dependable listener who is a trustworthy facilitator of vulnerable conversation and a curious accountability partner and motivator with a kind ear who collaborates with your team to thrive.
I am the rock who provides space for problem solving and "gremlin erasing" as the team gains the confidence to attain goals with a clear vision of a way forward.
People matter and team coaching encourages the team to self-reflect and become a better version of itself!
I began my career as a Korean Linguist in the Army and have spent a successful 25 years either as Active Duty or as a Civilian employee working for the Department of Defense in both English as a Second Language and Talent Development.
I live in Tennessee with my husband and we have a blended family comprised of four wonderful, grown children.
I am a self-proclaimed cat-lady (it’s obvious, I really don’t have to proclaim it), and currently live with Fiona, Mousum, and Ellie—all three with different personalities!
My hobbies include cooking, collecting international cookbooks, and walking.
