LEADERSHIP TEAM ALIGNMENT
Removing barriers to operational effectiveness
Many leadership teams find it challenging to engage in the tough conversations necessary to achieve their operational goals. That’s where we come in. As business psychologists, our expertise lies in identifying and addressing the obstacles that prevent leadership teams from excelling. We work in concert with your organizational strategy to facilitate the difficult but crucial discussions leaders hesitate to raise on their own. We take the time to understand each leader’s hopes, fears, and ideas and enable breakthrough conversations that lead to improved operational effectiveness and a strong sense of progress.
Sample Client Engagements
- We collaborated with the head of global sales learning and her team at a $70 billion technology firm that was facing imminent risks due to internal conflict, high turnover, and pressure to expand capacity without increasing headcount. This engagement resulted in establishing team commitments and a decision-making framework, which led to greater team alignment.
- We worked with the head of external discovery operations at a $40 billion pharmaceutical firm tasked with turning around a multimillion-dollar failing collaboration. Following our engagement with the leader and his team, the cross-border partnership continued for several years, resulting in multiple pre-clinical candidates and patents valued at several billion dollars.
An MIT study on why execution fails shows
Failure to coordinate leads to conflicts …and these are handled badly two times out of three.
Sull, Homkes, & Sull, 2015