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TEAM LEADERS
Leading people is a craft that can be learned and developed. We help leaders at all organization levels, in any discipline, by finding the right approach for you and your team needs.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Developing top-notch operations is the key to unlocking peak performance from your teams.
Team building and dynamics
Getting to the right outcome starts with assembling the right people, and putting the effort into forging that group into a functional team. Is your team missing knowledge, or overly argumentative? Does it have trouble staying on course, or even getting initiatives started? Does it complete work, only to find that the outcome isn’t achieving what was expected? Is it dysfunctional but no one understands why? We know all these symptoms and can give you tools to set up your team for success!
Goal and Strategy alignment
If you don’t know what you’re trying to achieve, all paths look equally good. MANY teams don’t take the time to be clear on goals and strategies, causing inefficiencies down the road. Are team leaders or members working at cross-purposes? Do you lack resources to achieve all the targets, with the team scattered and ineffective? Are team members unable to execute independently? Is morale low, with little respect for how the team is led? We’ve spent years helping teams and leaders focus on these fundamental areas of alignment.
problem assessment and identification
We believe the most important resource for efficiency is the ability to solve the right problem, rather than wrong ones. Rather than leaping into action, the time you take to understand and untangle problems more than pays for itself in team velocity. Does the team argue about work to be done, without a clear understanding of impact? Does the team find itself repeatedly solving the same problems? Is work completed, only to find problems not solved? Do new solutions inadvertently create new problems? Your team can save time, effort and money by more quickly identifying the problems they face.
communication and leadership skills
Team leaders foster culture by the way they listen and communicate. Understanding communication skills can make or break team and interpersonal chemistry. Do leaders tell – or ask - members what to do? Do team members have different vocabularies? Do team members misunderstand what motivates others? Do meetings ramble endlessly, or are they redundant with status reports? Do team members feel unable to engage in independent thought? Is morale low because people don’t feel heard? Communication drives the emotional climate of the team. We can help you keep it cool.
Critical thinking & solution management
There’s identifying the problem correctly… and then there’s the process of solving it. Consideration of goals, divergent possibilities, strategies, critical path – all these come into play when converging on a solution. Does your team consider too few alternatives to find the right one? Are decisions made without all the needed knowledge? Do downstream implications become unpleasant surprises? Are solutions implemented without considering the best order of execution? Are wrong people assigned projects, creating confusion and delay? There are efficient ways to reliably get from “answers” to “solutions.” We can help cross that bridge.
operational execution
They say success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Succeeding is hard, but “not failing” can be easy. Does your team fail to set (or widely communicate) expectations? Is team leadership generally unaware of the status of work? Do you frequently get late surprises on the quality or completion of projects? Do teams miss necessary mid-project adjustments? Are projects understaffed? Or do you find people working on the wrong projects? We’ve all seen opportunities missed because of a simple lack of executional diligence. We can help avoid that.
personal skills development
Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, but some abilities are common to most successful leaders. Do you have difficulty recognizing when to create calm and when to create crisis? Are you having trouble setting expectations that keep the team motivated? Do people live down to your expectations, rather than up? Do you have issues providing leadership in areas where you’re not a subject matter expert? Do you have difficulty getting people engaged, either individually or in meetings? Developing leadership skills takes focus and effort. Our success is measured in “leader epiphanies per week.”