Executive Team Development

So you have a lot of smart powerful executives on a team. But does the output (value to the organization of strategic direction and focused follow through) live up to the input (all the time this considerable collective brain-power spends together)? If not, your team may need to further develop its capability to live up to its potential.

Does your team:

• Know and understand the distinctive role it can play to add value—both at the strategic and operational level?

• Have good insights into the different styles, strengths and weaknesses of members and have the comfort level to openly acknowledge these differences?

• Know how to have lively, rigorous discussions that leverage differences versus polarizing or driving them underground?

• Spend its time on the right issues at the right level and know when decisions need to be brought to the team versus driven by the individual executives?

Solution

We work with you and your team to simultaneously develop new insights and skills and change the way you are operating as a team to get specific business results. This learn-by-doing approach wraps learning around the important roles and tasks of the team versus feeling like a tangent and provides practical learning that can be put to use immediately.

The improvements result in a more strategic use of the team. It also releases new energy as the group becomes more productive problem solvers and decision makers and spends less time misunderstanding or misusing differences in style.

How It Works

We operate as real time coaches to the team, versus traditional “off to the woods team building experiences.“ Our approach is to:

• Identify which business issues your team needs to deal with as a team versus driving them as individual executives.

• Assess, or help you self-assess, gaps in capability to deal with the issues.

• Introduce short, practical learning activities and leave behind tools that improve the particular capabilities you need to get results.

• Show you how to create the follow on discipline to maintain improvements.

Client Quote:

“What I valued most about Jeannie was her ability to corral and focus the energies of a very aggressive executive team on a common sense of purpose and agree on some actionable next steps that carried us beyond our time together. The operating norms we agreed on endured, the “noise” (friction) improved and stayed improved and we continue to use the strategy discussion sessions we introduced to very good effect--even four years later. Working with Jeannie clearly produces a different result than bringing in a consultant who makes people feel good and then two months later it's back to the same old thing.”

Paul A. Larkins, President CEO, Key Equipment Finance