Improve team performance through focus on strategic issues
It can be frustrating to spend time and energy supporting a leadership team that needs to interact in a more productive way only to have the individual members revert to old behaviors after a change initiative is over. A more effective approach for both a team and its business is to integrate performance improvement initiatives with a business issue that needs to be addressed.
Managed deftly, this approach creates a forum for strategic conversations and a deeper level of engagement than day-to-day business management allows. It sets a new model and standard for interaction, and helps the team and its members develop principles and practices that not only fit the company and team’s cultures but also recognize the experience, value, and skills of the people on the team—and the critical interplay among them.
Bridge the gap between strategic goals and action
Strategic Plans are often developed with the expectation that having a Plan ensures implementation. Too often, a Strategic Plan is an unused document rather than the outgrowth of discussion and resolution of the organization’s most critical needs and a dynamic guide for action.
Similarly, many teams wrestle with how to frame goals that have been agreed to but chronically neglected despite their widely acknowledged importance. The goals appear on plans quarter after quarter—sometimes year after year, carried forward on paper without implementation or resolution. Beyond causing nagging frustration, these unaddressed goals drain team momentum and put revenue opportunity at risk.
Team dynamics and effectiveness are a combination of business logic and human emotion. Many initiatives address the human dimensions without the business realities—or vice versa. When both are seen and appropriately addressed, team engagement and effectiveness improve together.
Get practical outcomes that add value and create longer-lasting change
Outcomes of team-based consulting and coaching work include plans that get implemented, new/renewed team energy, clarity about the barriers to action—including shared buy-in about how to overcome them, more effective and efficient interaction among team members, and agreed-to action steps and progress checks.