Make Your Own Team Check
NBO client, VP multinational organization:
“To achieve this business vision, I want to have an international leadership team which is
- Highly cohesive, sharing values and speaking the same language, with a strong cooperation spirit
- Aligned in itself and with the Group’ s objectives
- High-performing
- Functioning with efficient and effective processes in place and clarity in tasks and responsibilities
- Recognized and appreciated by its stakeholders and headquarters to the degree that it is involved in elaborating global strategies which will address our local commercial needs”
Does your Leadership Team
Explicitly share a mission for the team above and beyond individual business agendas?
Explicitly share a strong common purpose and vision for the success of your organization which they are able to express?
Share a clear common understanding of the leadership culture, values and behaviors needed to succeed?
Walk their talk in terms of behaviors and alignment?
Speak with one voice towards the team stakeholders?
Operate effectively within a matrix organization with multiple reportings?
Know each other well enough to hold sensitive conversations that matter candidly and constructively?
Trust one another and is open to collaboratively build solutions to the extent the Team Leader wishes it to be?
Appreciate the diversity of its culture and can utilize it to enhance outcomes?
Understand and pro-actively support the Team Leader Leadership, agenda and expectations?
Trust one another and is open to collaboratively build solutions to the extent the Team Leader wishes it to be?
Share a sense of urgency and a common understanding for the need to change which can make a huge difference?
Need to implement strategic and structural changes?
Overall, how would you rate your team?
TRANFORMATIONAL
CHANGE
How good are we at transforming the business as a team?
When working together
When working apart
OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
How good are we at running the business of today as a team?
When working together
When working apart
Effective Leadership Team
“A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals and shared approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. The common approach needs to include ways of effectively meeting and communicating that raise morale and alignment, effectively engaging with all the team’s key stakeholder groups, and ways that individuals and the team can continually learn and develop” (Peter Hawkins, Leadership Team coaching).
Starting the journey from good to great
Exploring and assessing team aspirations, needs and ability to function as a high-performance team instead of as a group of highly skilled and successful executives is the first step of any of our team leadership facilitation processes, gained through thorough team assessments and interviews with each team member.