McNally & Associates

Leadership Coaching for the Healthcare Industry

Team Coaching & Facilitation

Kimberly McNally - WSHA Team Coaching

High-performing teams don’t happen by accident.

Teams are fundamental to organizational performance, yet teams often end up as a collection of individuals with individual accountability rather than being cohesive and high performing. Getting to high performance requires identifying how the team needs to work in practice. Team coaching supports a team to adopt the practices and behaviors that enable them to create outstanding results.

Benefits of team coaching

Team coaching provides the structure and support that allows teams to learn, practice, and integrate new behaviors. I help teams work better together by facilitating conversations that matter. Coaching works because it actively, intentionally, and consciously helps teams and team members integrate new practices over time.

Team coaching gives team members the opportunity to grow together.  It supports the team to have increased ability to have open, effective conversations about critical issues and priorities.  And, by working with the team in the context of everyday challenges, I can introduce new ideas, practices, and behaviors, as well as identify opportunities to improve team performance. I use a variety of assessments and approaches to support team conversations. 

Typical Team Coaching Engagement

A typical team coaching engagement follows an intentional sequence.  This type of engagement may involve several elements delivered over months, depending on the team, feedback from the team leader, and organizational context. 

  • Individual interviews with team members
  • Meeting observations
  • Advisory calls with team leader
  • Individual and team assessments
  • 2-4 team development workshops (1/2 or full day)

Team Retreats

We facilitate retreats that are tailored experiences for small groups of senior executives, emerging leaders, or their teams.  The retreat format helps leaders to cultivate the leader within while resetting your mind, recharging your body, and regaining your purpose.  Held at curated locations, our retreats feature visioning sessions, team building, group and 1:1 coaching, plus unique experiences, crafted to energize you and your team. 

Sample Client Engagements

Team Development/Facilitation

  • Designed & facilitated team assimilation process for incoming academic medical center system CEO.
  • Designed on-demand learning module, “Leading in Times of Uncertainty and Change”, for dialysis leaders.
  • Designed & facilitated multiple visioning, strategic planning, & team building retreats for academic health system nursing leaders.
  • Co-designed & facilitated 4-month women’s leadership program for state hospital association.
  • Designed and facilitated a six-month emerging leader curriculum and mentoring program for a state hospital association.

To request a complimentary introductory session, please contact me.

What people are saying about their experiences and results:

I strongly recommend Kimberly McNally if you are attempting to bring a diverse group of experts together as a team. Her inclusive communication style helps create a safe environment which, in turn, promotes openness and candid problem solving and a dynamic exchange of ideas. Kimberly has worked with 2 of my leadership teams over the past 8 years. Her work has been foundational in establishing a new system level nursing leadership team. Efforts resulted in aligned strategic direction for nursing.

The best part of working with Kimberly for a second time is that I was able to watch her effectively guide and support another very diverse team using her unique blend of expertise and skill to bring the same degree of focus, consensus and closure.

Karen A. Grimley, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE

Chief Nursing Executive
In 2021 I partnered with Kimberly to help design and launch WSHA’s Women’s Leadership Program. Kimberly provided key guidance on several levels. Her knowledge of leadership development and experience in the field helped us identify several components, such as building coaching skills, that we needed to incorporate into the program to make it impactful. Her wisdom regarding how career advancement works today led us to incorporate additional program elements, such as making use of LinkedIn throughout the program. She let us tap her vast network of healthcare leaders to serve as panelists in the program. Kimberly drew on her years of experience to guide our panelists through discussions about their own leadership journey. And she was an absolute pleasure with whom to work throughout the process. WSHA’s inaugural Women’s Leadership Program was an astounding success: we doubled our enrollment goals, received stellar ratings from participants, and heard from more than one that this was the best leadership program in which they had ever participated. Kimberly’s leadership, wisdom, experience, and joy for her craft helped us create something special that will be around for a long time. I highly recommend working with her.

Ed Phippen

Vice President, Operations and Business Development
Kimberly is an amazing leader, consultant and healthcare guru! I have engaged with her on a number of projects with very different needs and objectives. She came through expertly in each situation and provided assistance to get us to outcomes above and beyond expectation. Her approach is sound, her communications stellar and the results outstanding!

Janine Holbrook

CNO
Kimberly McNally worked with the executive team at Mason General Hospital on two levels, individual coaching and team dynamics, delivering exceptional outcomes in both areas. Kimberly brought tools and structure to the engagement to engender introspection and dialogue, but most important was her ability to develop trust in the process and in becoming more vulnerable, which really means open to opportunities to develop. Kimberly is exceptional at listening and connecting with people. I whole-heartedly recommend her services.

Eric Moss

CEO
Kimberly is a phenomenal facilitator and coach! I conducted back to back team building retreats in December which Kimberly customized to meet the individualized needs of each group. The days were dynamic, educative, fun and rejuvenating. Both teams walked away with action plans for next steps to take into the new year. My teams have asked for Kimberly to come back in 6 months to share our progress! I would highly recommend Kimberly for strategic planning and team building work with your teams. 

Janet Stifter, PhD, RN

Vice President
Kimberly is a dynamic, energizing leader with expert skills in negotiation, team building and executive coaching. She has led retreats for my senior executive and C-suite team and was masterful in areas of conflict resolution and creating an effective team dynamic. After the retreats with Kimberly our team felt energized and ready to tackle any challenges. Her ability to engage all members is remarkable and her leadership style sets the example for health care professionals. I️ would highly recommend her for her expertise and skills.

Johnese Spisso

President & CEO
Kimberly McNally is truly a gifted executive coach and nurse leader. She has provided expert guidance and leadership development for the faculty and staff of the University of Portland School of Nursing. In a time when we are undergoing tremendous change in faculty retirements, developing new curriculum, and launching new programs, she aided the team in identifying a common language, establishing shared understanding of team dynamics and differences, and creating unified goals to help us move through the turmoil of change together. Her attention to detail in getting to know the key members of the team was astounding. She has a keen ability to synthesize a lot of complex information into a meaningful direction that meets everyone’s needs. Today, our team continues to use the new skills attained through her consultation and we are growing stronger together.

Casey Shillam

Dean, School of Nursing
Thank you so very much for the time and effort you put into the Emotional Intelligence training session for our Physician Leadership Program.  All of us are better for it!

John Vassall, MD

Chief Medical Officer
In today’s healthcare environment, advancing an organization’s agenda, culture, and performance is pivotal to every senior leader. True success is based upon innovation, optimum communication, collaboration and coordination. To that end, Kimberly has strengthened our organizational performance through individual leadership competency development and the transforming of work groups into work teams.  Kimberly is the consummate professional, exceptional to work with and is my coach of choice.

Paul Hayes, RN, MN

Chief Operating Officer