Issue

A client’s Senior Leadership Team was in need of coaching, not so much as individuals, but as a group working together/relying on each other.

We had worked with the client to facilitate their strategy planning meetings in prior years. The client had grown rapidly over the prior three years and the CEO needed his senior leadership team to rise to the challenge of leading a more complex, larger organization as well as to trust each other and work more effectively together to lead the organization’s culture and growth strategy.

Solution

Conducted a series of interviews with the senior team as well as key stakeholders to understand the team’s strengths and learning edge.

Utilized the Leadership Circle Profile™ to coach leaders in increasing awareness of self and others’ behaviors and mindsets, as well as identifying reactive and creative tendencies and understanding how they impact the team dynamics and the ability to achieve results, causing stunted organization performance.

Designed a six-month group coaching program to coach the leaders in purposeful role modeling, using radical candor, building trust, and breaking down barriers that were serving as impediments.

Leaders were also coached to lean into their natural strengths and empower their next level of management to lead and deliver on key strategic initiatives.

Results

• The leadership team was able to come together, as never before, and leverage their collective strengths to lead the company through a time of crisis by fostering open, transparent dialogue that was well received by all staff
• The next level leaders provided feedback that the senior team were more effective role models as well as visibly more cohesive, aligned and focused as a team, which facilitated collaboration among their teams
• The team was able to deliver sustained performance improvement and exceed goals