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TTC Demand-Building Marketing Strategy

Team Coaching Era Video Series

Timeline

March 2026

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Video 4: Testimonial podcast 2
TBD: Observed Team Coaching

8-Week Demand-Building Marketing Strategy for the Team Coaching Cohort

First 4 Weeks – Market Positioning & Narrative

Weeks 5–8 – Capability Clarity, Relevance & Conversion

1. Proposal

What this proposal is

This proposal outlines a pre-cohort demand-building strategy designed to address a recurring challenge:
High-quality programs, but insufficient market readiness when promotion starts too late.
The strategy focuses on:
Shaping market understanding
Building anticipation and trust
Creating a clear narrative around why team coaching matters now
before any hard selling begins.

2. Strategic Intent (First 4 Weeks)

For the first four weeks, the goal is not to sell the program.
The goal is to place a strong, simple idea in the market:

“Team coaching is becoming a critical leadership and organizational capability for 2026 not a nice-to-have.”

If this belief is established early:
Program conversations become easier
Resistance drops
The cohort feels like a natural next step, not a push

3. Core Narrative Backbone

Series Title

Team Coaching Era

This series is intentionally positioned as:
A market narrative
A sense-making series
A leadership conversation, not a product pitch
The program appears later as a response to the narrative not the starting point.

4. Content Spine: Weekly Video / Podcast-Style Series

Format

1 episode per week
2–4 minutes for solo videos
10–15 minutes for guest / testimonial episodes (podcast-style)
Posted from Han Ee’s account
Next-day repost by EP with a short framing caption

Content discipline

One core idea per episode
Grounded in real-world leadership and team challenges
No methodology-heavy or promotional language in the first 4 weeks

5. 4-Week Content Plan


Week 1 – Market Signal (Solo Video)

Topic: High-Performance Teams: Why They Are Becoming the Real Competitive Advantage

Purpose

Open the series with a clear end state: what high-performance teams actually look like today
Anchor the conversation in business outcomes, not engagement language
Set up retention, trust, and leadership as team-level realities, not HR initiatives

Key Angles

What defines a high-performance team today
Trust under pressure
Clear decision-making
Shared ownership
Ability to handle tension without fragmentation
What is breaking high performance
Low trust in managers
Team climates where people disengage quietly
Leaders carrying too much decision load
Why this has become a leadership issue, not an HR one
Retention, engagement, and performance now show up at the team level
Policies don’t shape day-to-day experience leaders and teams do
The bridge to what’s next
High-performance teams don’t happen by accident
They require leaders to work with teams in new ways

EP repost angle

High performance is not an individual achievement.It’s a team experience shaped every day by trust, decisions, and leadership behavior.

CTA

Team Coaching 101 - 11.02.2026
Observed Team Coaching - 12.02.2026

Week 2 – Role Clarity (Solo Video)

Topic: When Roles Are Clear but Responsibility Is Not

Purpose

Expose a hidden source of friction in many teams
Reframe role clarity as a decision and responsibility issue, not an org-chart issue
Help leaders see why teams get stuck even when roles are “clear”

Key Angles

Why role clarity is often misunderstood
Job titles exist
But decision rights are vague
“Who owns this?” becomes unclear
How this shows up in teams
Duplication of work
Gaps in ownership
Conflicts during handoffs
Why leaders feel the impact first
Decisions escalate upward
Leaders become the default problem-solver
Teams wait for direction
The bridge to team coaching
Team coaching surfaces how roles and decisions actually play out
Clarity is built through conversation, not documentation

EP repost angle

Most role problems are actually decision problems.

CTA’s

Observed Team Coaching - 05.03.2026
Free resources (TCV)

Week 3 – Psychological Safety (Solo Video)

Topic: Why Psychological Safety Is Often Misunderstood in Teams

Purpose

Challenge a popular but diluted leadership concept
Reframe psychological safety as a performance enabler, not comfort
Help leaders understand why “nice teams” still underperform

Key Angles

What psychological safety is often mistaken for
Being polite
Avoiding tension
Keeping meetings calm
What psychological safety actually enables
Speaking up early
Naming uncomfortable truths
Challenging decisions without fear
Why this matters for performance
Silence increases risk
Avoided conversations compound over time
Pressure exposes what teams don’t say
The bridge to team coaching
Team coaching builds the capacity to hold honest dialogue
Safety is developed through practice, not intention

EP repost angle

Psychological safety is not comfort. It’s the ability to tell the truth under pressure.

CTA’s

Observed Team Coaching - 5.03.2026
Team Coaching 101 - 4.03.2026
Free TCS – team culture survey

Week 4 – Ownership & Leadership Load (Solo Video)

Topic:

Why Strong Leaders End Up Carrying Too Much — And How Team Dynamics Quietly Create It

TTC Anchor:

Bill Pasmore & Edgar Schein Team Dynamics ModelTTC Module 9 Working with Team …
Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions (Avoidance of Accountability)TTC Module 6 Applying Team Mode…
“Silent Killers” (dependency, assuming agreement, silencing dissent) – Module 9 visual panelTTC Module 9 Working with Team …

Strategic Purpose

Name a real leadership strain: over-functioning leaders
Reframe “low ownership” as a team system pattern, not a motivation problem
Show how leaders unintentionally reinforce dependency through team dynamics

Specific Talking Points (Grounded in TTC)

Observable Team Dynamics (Pasmore Model)
Who speaks / who stays silent
How decisions are made (consensus vs. proclamation)
Emotional tone
Task vs. support behaviorsTTC Module 9 Working with Team …
When leaders dominate decision-making:
Communication imbalance appears
Energy shifts
Psychological ownership drops
Lencioni Link: Avoidance of Accountability Weak peer-to-peer accountability creates upward delegationTTC Module 6 Applying Team Mode…
So what happens?
The leader becomes the accountability mechanism.
The team becomes compliant but not committed.
Silent Killers in Action Examples:
Dependency / disempowerment
Assuming agreement
Silencing dissentTTC Module 9 Working with Team …
Leaders believe: “I’m being decisive.”
System reality: “We are reinforcing dependency.”
Core Insight Leadership load increases when:
Decisions are top-down
Conflict is avoided
Peer accountability is weak
This is not about leader weakness. It is about team system design.EP repost angle
When leaders carry too much, teams carry too little.

End Frame

High-performing teams distribute ownership. Dysfunctional systems concentrate it at the top.
Team coaching addresses the system not the symptom.

CTA’s

Team Coaching 101 - 11.03.2026
Module 1-2 free to attend - 17-31.03.2026

6. Role of EP LinkedIn Page

EP’s page acts as the sense-making layer, not the main voice.
From EP:
Short insight posts pulled from each episode
Simple frameworks (e.g. Individual vs Team Coaching)
Anonymous case reflections
Polls to surface market pain points
This positions EP as:
A thinking partner on teams and leadership not just a training provider.

7. What This Sets Up (Weeks 5–8)

By the end of Week 4:
The market understands why team coaching matters
Credibility and relevance are established
Curiosity is present
Weeks 5–8 can then:
Softly introduce the upcoming cohort
Address practical questions (who it’s for, how it’s applied)
Transition naturally into a clear CTA

8. Success Indicators (Early Signals)

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