Beyond the Individual: Unlocking Organisational Success Through Team Effectiveness
Research on the best performing companies is increasingly showing the correlation between the success of a company and the effectiveness of its people in teams. Recent leadership studies point to the move away from traditionally held view of the importance of the one strong leader, to the idea of collaborative teams working towards and committed to a shared goal. An important component of new leadership development, and one that LEAP subscribes to, is the consolidation of the different strengths of the leadership “team” towards meeting objectives and goals of the business and fulfilling its mandate.
How successful a business is, is really a factor of how effective its teams are. Hence, side by side with development of individual leaders, both personally and professionally, is the corresponding development of the team the leader operates in.
High-Productivity Business Teams
The complexity and cross-functionality of contemporary business make teaming a fact of life. Unfortunately, high-performance teaming or even basic team effectiveness does not happen simply because a group of individuals is assembled under a common charter.
Senior executive teams and boards of directors face special challenges to effective team performance. Issues of governance, strategy and succession play out amidst the interaction of powerful individuals with a complex mix of styles, relationships and strong personalities.
Our specialist, one-to-one coaching for executives allows them to focus on their impact in the role and to examine difficult questions about key aspects of their business. Leaders who have worked with us report increased confidence in their own performance and ability to influence the performance of colleagues in their own teams as well as in partner organisations.
LEAP is accredited to use a number of assessment tools. E.g. The Insights Discovery assessment for teams, as well as the Enneagram Team Assessment tool. Both assessments are powerful in showing teams their strengths, weaknesses and pitfalls. Follow up sessions with teams are based on the real needs that the specific team faces.
Some of the common topics that have come up are:
Effective communications in teams
Giving and receiving Feedback
Having difficult conversations
Handling and addressing conflict
Handling change
Managing performance
Emotional intelligence
The Art of Influence
Negotiations
We can customize a programme for your organization based on the need you have. Our skill is in analyzing the performance of the team, creating a safe environment for colleagues to speak freely and honestly about what is working and what is not working in teams, and leading teams to finding appropriate actions to get them to high performance
The complexity and cross-functionality of contemporary business make teaming a fact of life. Unfortunately, high-performance teaming or even basic team effectiveness does not happen simply because a group of individuals is assembled under a common charter.
Senior executive teams and boards of directors face special challenges to effective team performance. Issues of governance, strategy and succession play out amidst the interaction of powerful individuals with a complex mix of styles, relationships and strong personalities.
Our specialist, one-to-one coaching for executives allows them to focus on their impact in the role and to examine difficult questions about key aspects of their business. Leaders who have worked with us report increased confidence in their own performance and ability to influence the performance of colleagues in their own teams as well as in partner organisations