Introduction   Marva Sadler is the COO of Coaching.Com and has a reputation for her extensive expertise in strategy creation, leadership development and executive coaching.  She is an experienced business executive and consultant with over 25 years leading strategic and operational growth programs for small to mid-sized organizations Marva has also served in the nonprofit sector as Program Director for People Helping People, an employment success program for low-income women, and as a Board Member and strategic advisor for No More Homeless Pets of Utah.  Ms. Sadler is a certified Theory of Constraints Jonah. Podcast Episode Summary   This episode shares wisdom about Leading a team and the kinds of principles that help teams be great together. Applying Civil Discourse, being human and kinder with each other in our interconnected world are themes that feature across his conversation.    Points made across the podcast episode    Important to remember that Marva, in addition to the career highlights shared, is also the mother of five adult children  Biggest lesson Marva learnt from her own family is that a Leader is not without honour except in her own family.  Marva recognised that her children saw her as a parent or “just my Mum” and that kept her grounded, maybe humble but with a sense of perspective.   In a previous role, as owner for a small historic woollen blankets manufacturer, reproduction Civil War & Revolutionary War Blankets, Marva was invited to lobby Senators and Congressman. The lobbyist she was with was surprised that Marva could “hold her own” Marva makes the point that they are human too.  Her attitude in communication even in the face of authority is to treat people with respect.  Marva was doing very well in her previous role in a Tech Strategy Consulting firm and one of the main reasons she moved to WBECS to become CEO for a coaching company was because she believed there was a serious deterioration in civil discourse.  She asked the question, “who are the people most likely to change the way we speak to each other”? not politicians because they are part of the problem and not the religious because they have lost influence. Her answer was businesspeople and all of the people they touch.  The people most likely to influence businesspeople are coaches. The vast majority of coaches believe in and practice civil discourse.  The reason Marva got back into coaching was the desire that more/all people speak to each other more kindly.  WBECS firmly believe in the value of Team Coaching. It is a significant trend in the industry and the next step in the evolution for coaches.  Coaches are needed to help Leaders; businesspeople think about how to do things together. We can multiply our impact when we work with teams.  Teams are the building blocks for how organisations get their work done.  There are many approaches to team coaching not all of them coming out of coaching perse, for example agile principles housed in agile development and agile management of teams.  The project management institute or PMI are doing a lot of work around how to make teams more effective.  Important to remember that team coaching is not coaching more people at the same time. It is not about coaching individuals on a team but the team itself, the interactions between team members and the spaces between.  There are skills to be developed in working with interactions on the team and the spaces between that require skill development.  Marva has always been convinced in the efficacy and productivity of teams. She has always worked to help individuals on her teams to work collaboratively, use the collective wisdom on teams to be more creative The process of collaboration on teams gives you answers that were not even visible to individuals on teams.  There are techniques and methods that team coaches teach teams that help teams illuminate how they are showing up as collective.  Marva shares a story from her own history and family system tha