Executive Team Building…for busy Executive Teams

Need:  Executive leadership teams have unique challenges and deal with complex issues that require teamwork at the highest level. The executive team is more than individuals who work together; but, must be a truly interdependent team—interacting to produce their outputs; and also delivering on joint outcomes. Periodically, it is helpful for an executive team to examine ‘how are we doing’ and to spotlight just a few individual and team needs to improve and develop actions. Executives and the team face a dilemma: as the need to build more effective teams is increasing, the time available to build these teams is often de­creasing.

  • What we do know from research-small differences in behavior can make a difference!

The Solution: Executive Team building session… focused on issues that the team identifies as needing to start, stop, ‘do more of’, ‘do less of’.

A Balanced Team

In less than 4 hours:

  • A short briefing as to Executive Teamwork—Research on what works, what does not;
  • The team verifies the need for improvement:
    • “On a 1 to 10 scale-how well are we doing in terms of working together as a team?” and
    • “On a 1 to 10 scale, how well do we need to be doing in terms of working together”
  • “If every team member could change two key behaviors that would help us close the gap between…which two behaviors should we all try to change?
    • Team: Identifies two areas for improvement if the Team; start, stop…‘do more of’, ‘do less of’. Thus, team behaviors -goal;
    • Individuals receive feedback on one to two areas of improvement: Again…Start-Stop…’do more of’, ‘do less of’ Thus, individual behaviors-goals identified;

Plans made…In three to four months: Conduct a mini-survey, follow-up process

Outcome/Value-add:

  • Does not waste time —quick, efficient improvement of normal activity of busy Executives—personal sessions with executives regarding feedback-action plans;
  • Focused feedback assists in building an engaged workforce and improved customer retention practices
  • Individual contributions are improved over time