LEADERSHIP TEAM DYNAMICS
Two of your leaders aren’t speaking. Three are texting about it. Everyone else is pretending not to notice.
Every leadership team has a dynamic, the loud kind or the perfectly polite kind. We help you see what’s really going on between your leaders and turn it into a team that actually leads together.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Some teams are loud about it. Some are very, very polite.
“You hired them to lead together. Not to make you choose sides.”
“There’s the meeting. And then there’s the real meeting after the meeting.”
“Everyone’s perfectly polite. Nobody’s saying what they actually think.”
“You’re running a company. Somehow, you’re also running couples therapy for your executive team.”
“You’ve gotten really good at managing around personalities.”
“The tension is so thick you could put it on the meeting agenda.”
Here’s the good news: none of this means you have the wrong people. Usually it means talented leaders are wired differently and haven’t learned to translate for each other yet. That part, we can help with.
HOW WE HELP
For two leaders, or the whole leadership team.
FOR TWO LEADERS
Leadership Mediation
Sometimes two really capable leaders just can’t figure each other out. And sometimes you’re the one stuck in the middle. We help them have the conversation they haven’t been able to have and figure out how to move forward together.
FOR THE WHOLE TEAM
Team Dynamics Coaching
Ongoing work with your executive team on how you communicate, make decisions, and share ownership, using the real issues on your plate, not hypotheticals.
WHAT WE HELP WITH
Capable leaders, leading together.
Decisions that stick
Clarity on what’s decided, what’s still open, and who owns it, so the same issue stops coming back.
One meeting, one meaning
Different filters are all reasonable. We help your team leave the room with the same understanding.
Shared ownership
Great department leaders learning to own the whole, not just their area.
The honest conversation
Polite is nice. Useful honesty is better. We help the important conversations actually happen.
Different styles, one direction
Turning different operating styles into an advantage instead of a source of crossed wires.
Fewer trips to your office
A team that can work it out without you breaking every tie.
IN THEIR WORDS
“She’s a personality whisperer. I’ve never met anyone who can read people and understand the dynamics between them the way she does. She can see what’s really going on between two people, even when neither person can quite explain it.”
Executive Coaching Client
LET’S TALK
Let’s get your leadership team on the same page.
Not sure if you need mediation, team coaching, or a workshop? That’s exactly what the first call is for. 30 minutes, on us.