Leadership Team – Working as one team?
When your Leadership Team works like a real team, success becomes so much easier to attain.
WHAT CHALLENGES ARE LEADERSHIP TEAMS FACING TODAY?
The acceleration in the operative environment, increased complexity and connectiveness call for “next level collaboration”. This is reflected in Leadership Teams’ need to function as a real team with a shared purpose.
Other challenges connected to this include:
digitalization and rapid change challenge the organizational culture; innovativeness, self-organization and flexibility are highlighted
customer experience becomes increasingly multi-channel
one must run profit-oriented operations while driving change
sustainability is a key theme on Leadership Teams’ agendas
remote work and digitalization impact the way we work, forcing management to take action
In today’s decision-making, diverse perspectives need to come together. The Leadership Team’s shared responsibility over the organization’s goals and strategy implementation emerges only through a collaborative effort; this can take place once the Leadership Team has discussed and created alignment and a roadmap with shared goals and priorities.
Leadership Team – more than a sum of its parts?
Mind Avenue has designed and implemented coaching for Leadership Teams for over 10 years. Quite often the teams themselves recognize that their common potential is blocked somehow; the teams feel that they could be more.
“The major challenges lie not in the parts but in the interconnections”
— Prof Peter Hawkins; The Challenge for today’s Leadership Teams
Let’s work together to find the solutions that allow your Leadership Team to unleash its full potential!
You can schedule an appointment using the link below – and decide on the next steps afterwards.
Mind Avenue has worked with Leadership Teams in various ways:
Leadership Team as a team – team coaching process, duration 6-12 months
Leadership Team development days and facilitation: strategy discussions, developing the inner dynamics of the Team; developing leadership & culture
½-1 day workshops, e.g..; Leadership Team as a team, Workplace Big Five profiles and different personality types, Emotional IQ of Leadership Team
Facilitating the processing of feedback from 360°/personnel surveys
Tools for Leadership Team coaching:
Team Diagnostic; what are our strengths as a team? What needs to be developed to become a top team
Workplace Big Five personality profiles and team profile; “to know themselves & each other”
EQ-i emotional intelligence profiles and Team emotional intelligence profile; emotional intelligence skills are crucial in creating psychological safety – as well as leading oneself and others
“Pirkko has coached our Leadership Team several times. She has given also individual coaching to our Leadership Team members to make sure that leadership skills keep developing appropriately. As a company, we have ambitious growth targets and there hasn’t always been sufficient time for proper Leadership Team discussions. Working with Pirkko, we have been able to improve the open dialogue within the Leadership Team as well as functioning as a team. We’re able to address even difficult issues more effectively now and don’t shy away from conflict unnecessarily. Our Leadership Team has also come to understand the value of mutual trust and cooperation more deeply.
Pirkko’s discussion-driven approach, her ability to find the right questions and to get all the Leadership Team members to talk earnestly about also challenging issues have helped us to communicate more openly and directly and to improve as leaders.”
— CEO, chemical sector growth company, 500 employees
