High-performing Leadership Teams

It is rare to find great teamwork without a strong foundation of smart team work.

Team work is critical to organizational success: tuning up how people share and learn together, make key decisions and commitments, and hold each other accountable and celebrate successes.

Let’s be frank: doing team work right is hard. Each person is complex by themselves, and as you add more the dynamic complications increase exponentially. Layer on organizational systems and culture and it doesn’t take many people (or very large gaps in thinking) before you really need an expert to help guide you.

Here are some of the situations I commonly help teams with:

  • Creating a new team for sustained effectiveness

  • Shifts in team membership, responsibilities, or expectations

  • Evaluating and improving team processes

  • Strategic Consultation

  • Extending your Leadership Coaching experience

My approach blends the best practices of human-centric adult learning, with innovative approaches to virtual, in-person and hybrid tools and methodologies.

We will identify leadership’s vision for the team, take stock on current behaviors and performance, and co-create a roadmap for team success.

Case Studies

Situation: a non-functioning government team on the verge of being disbanded due to not accomplishing a VIP Task.

Approach: meet the leader and understand the issue. Interview team members and observe/coach the team. Diagnose the problem was not due to personnel (as originally thought) but rather to issues with processes. Co-create new meeting agreements and processes. Support the team with coaching.

Results: the team remained together and met their goals.

 
 

Situation: a new leader inherits a pre-existing team.

Approach: gain clarity and alignment around the purpose of the team. Build relationships while identifying culture agreements and working agreements. Take time to overcome the impact of the previous leadership, develop trust in the new leader, and create new ways of working together.

Results: The team established trust in their relationships and commitments and were able to break through old paradigms and innovate. All this while weathering shifts in senior leadership, organizational structure, and customer expectations.