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As illustrated throughout this book, concepts taken from Dialogical Self Theory (DST) offer a fertile ground for the development of practical methods. The present chapter offers an introduction into a DST-based method for team coaching: the Team Confrontation Method (TCM).

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Zomer, P. (2016). The Team Confrontation Method (TCM). In: Hermans, H. (eds) Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32482-1_8

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