Leadership Mastery
Effective Teams
A number of key conditions need to be met for a team to work together effectively and achieve high performance. Extensive research at Harvard Business School found that there are 5 enabling conditions for effective teams. They need to:
- Form a real team and feel like a team
- Share a compelling purpose
- Be organised in a structure that supports the purpose
- Operate within a supportive context
- Have access to expert coaching
Group Coaching
Fast tracking team performance
Coaching groups of managers or intact leadership teams can achieve quick improvements in leadership effectiveness and address current issues and opportunities in the organisation. Team coaching is effective when you aim to address common issues which are usually related to the organisational culture, for example lack of accountability, poor decision making strategies, avoidance, lack of strategic focus, inefficient operations and a silo mentality. Because we are dealing with shared issues, leaders will learn from each other when working through issues and we can build sufficient momentum and ‘quick wins’ for a cultural shift to get underway.
Executive Coaching
Accelerate your journey to leadership excellence and become a well-rounded leader through coaching.
Coaching is the most effective intervention when it comes to expanding your current leadership skills and flexibility. It has been demonstrated to have a 300-700% Return on Investment (ROI). The key to becoming a well-rounded and highly effective leader is to add to your existing management skills and emotional competencies.
Peak Performance
We develop teams and organisations to achieve peak performance.
As expert coaches working in a broad range of industries we understand the interaction between leadership, behaviour, needs, values, incentives, rewards, accountability and constraints that create a unique organisational culture. Based on those insights we use a 'systematic troubleshooting' approach to achieve peak performance.
Achieving peak performance has little to do with the formal performance evaluations that most businesses have implemented. Instead, peak performance requires a coherent approach to leadership and daily/weekly performance management which fosters the desired high-performance culture. This culture can be action-oriented (task focus) or relationship oriented (people focus) - when combined with the right mix of vision, strategy, leadership styles, KPI's, delegation, accountability and decision making either culture can give rise to peak performance.
Achieving peak performance is the most complex of our interventions. Current performance is determined by number of key factors that can be measured via Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). But changing KPI's is not enough to achieve peak performance. In addition, this intervention looks at:
Accountability
Creating a culture of accountability is the key to sustained high performance.
Whilst most of us will have heard the saying "What doesn't get measured doesn't get done", the truth about accountability is a little more complex than measuring and monitoring. In most organisations today performance can no longer be measured with just a few key indicators. In addition, most of us operate within environments that are in a constant state of flux and what seemed a reasonable measure and performance yesterday may no longer be adequate tomorrow. Therefore, accountability extents beyond sticking to current rules and processes. It needs to include adherence to the team's and company's vision and direction.