Building Effective Leadership Teams
Course Description
Building Effective Leadership Teams guides the executive in taking a collection of managers with their own agendas and molding them into a unified team. Peer leaders learn how to work together through problem-solving, decision-making, and innovation processes. Areas covered during the engagement include: establishing the leadership team norms, crafting a clear purpose, establishing goal alignment, setting priorities, defining clear role expectations, and reinforcing accountability. The process provides the leadership team with a roadmap to increase the performance of their organization through leadership cohesion and teamwork.

Objectives
Upon completion of this engagement, the leadership team will be able to:

Define the leadership team’s purpose so all the players understand how their individual roles and department goals fit.

Establish the leadership team’s norms and ground rules to assure skillful interactions during discussion and debate in the decision-making process.

Assess the leadership team’s strengths and weaknesses and build a team development plan and process to assess teamwork.

Establish the leadership team’s problem-solving and decision-making processes that balance participation with buy-in with efficiency.

Assure communication and coordination among leadership team members to reinforce alignment and efficiency.

Establish the leadership team’s effectiveness at each level to reinforce organizational unity, collaboration, and accountability for every department and team.

Target Audience
Executives, managers, and their direct reports are excellent candidates for this workshop.

Learning Methods This is a consultant/facilitator-led project that uses presentation, industry and non-industry examples, simulation, and application exercises to establish and apply the leadership team practices. Other learning activities include full group and small group discussion and problem-solving sessions. Materials are provided for leadership team members to transfer the actionable elements of the approach to their direct report teams.