Leverage the 14 factors needed to inspire and lead high-performing, self-directed, creative and adaptable teams
This program is designed for your team, if:
- Your organization is experiencing a transformational change, such as a merger, downsizing, reorganization or outsourcing initiative
- Tension or miscommunication amongst team members is holding your team back
- You want to inspire your team to conquer new challenges
- Self-directed attitudes and behaviors are critical success factors
We’ll help you take the guesswork out of leadership
Leaders are responsible for creating conditions that encourage a team to succeed and deliver results. Often, new strategic initiatives—created to improve the bottom line—are met with fear and resistance. The normal, unassisted perspective is a fear of the unknown. It is very difficult for leaders within an organization to step back, look at the situation impartially and see how to move team members out of fear and into action.
Leading Visions, Inc. helps the leadership team and employees learn to align themselves more closely with objective reality and see changes in strategy as an opportunity to grow, rather than as a problem to be coped with.
We utilize a strengths-based coaching approach and tools to replace guesswork with data. We will work with you to analyze the current climate and create a plan to help you reach your desired outcomes.
Overview
Leading Visions, Inc. helps corporate leaders accelerate and facilitate necessary changes in team member mindsets. Another way of saying this is that we are good at “preparing the soil” of the organizational culture so that the “seeds” of the business strategy can have a legitimate chance to take root in the hearts and minds of the people who actually do the work. When this happens, the execution of the business strategy becomes a given—goals are met and often exceeded. We help create more positivity in the workplace, which leads to more productivity.
Our work with teams has resulted in 10‒30% improvement in team performance within 6‒9 months.
“I got 10 hours/week back because my team is solving its own problems and resolving conflict without my intervention. We are no longer just a ‘meeting’ but a collaborative leadership team.”
— Sr. Manager, Healthcare Organization
Approach
We deliberately focus on engagement first—focusing team energy on working relationships and developing self-directed behavior. We then inspire the team to rise to the challenges that are a natural part of transition. This allows team members the opportunity to reestablish relationships and trust before they get to work rebuilding the department. In our experience, most executives are quite competent at creating strategies and implementation plans; but may not have the skill set (or impartial view) to implement the culture transformation necessary to execute their strategies. Thus, we focus on transforming the culture within the team environment so the business leaders can focus on executing the strategy and creating results.
Successful transformations (be it a downsizing, reorganization, system change or outsourcing initiative) address performance strategically and include all perspectives (people, process, technology and infrastructure).
Using a strengths-based coaching approach, Leading Visions, Inc. brings expertise, tools, experiential learning and compassion to create a safe, open environment for strategic alignment work such as:
- Integration: How do we leverage people, process and technology to deliver high quality results with less stress?
- Culture Change: How do we intentionally create a creative, outcome-based culture (play to win) vs. defaulting to a reactive-problem (playing not to lose)? How do we shift the collective mindset about what is possible to accomplish?
- Team Chartering: What are is our mission, vision, values, goals and agreements? How do we increase individual accountability to create a high-performing team?
- Communication: How can we communicate more openly, completely, pro-actively and effectively in service to team goals?
- Emotional, Social and Team Intelligence: How can we leverage interpersonal, intrapersonal and team system awareness to accelerate results delivery?
- Constructive Interaction: How do we best communicate and provide feedback (internally and externally) especially when things get tough?
- Decision Making Practices: How do we cultivate effective decision making? What are key decision points and who has what level of accountability for each decision? What are decision making types, styles and preferences?
- Transition Management: What do we need to know about transition? How do we help each other deal effectively with all the changes that have happened and those that are sure to come?
- Vendor Collaboration: How do we optimize our relationship, agreements and work flow?
- Change Management/Workflow: What are the new workflows and procedures and change management practices?
- Role Clarity: Who does what and why?
- Customer Service: Who are our customers and how can we provide the best service in our new structure?
- Best Practices: What are they and how do we migrate?
- Quality Control/Improvement: How can we optimize or leverage our standardize improvement methods (Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, BPI, etc.)? How do we create a more courageous continuous improvement attitude?
Tools
We work with these assessment tools. All are based on the team’s perspective of what is going on (vs. a leader or consultant):
- Team Diagnostic Assessment: Measures 14 team competencies or success factors necessary for high-performance. Accelerates the work and conversations that need to and want to happen.
- Leadership Culture Survey: Measures the current team culture (how they are) and desired team culture (how they want to be). Increases understanding of the degree to which the team “Plays Not to Lose” (protects, complies or control) and “Plays to Win” (relating, self-awareness, authenticity, systems awareness, achieving)
- DISC Assessment: Measures behavioral preferences (strengths) in 4 categories- Direct/Dominant, Influence/Expressive, Steady/Amiable and Correct/Conscientious. Helps improve communication, decision making and feedback and understanding.
- Team Leader View™ Assessment: Examines 14 research-verified qualities necessary for effective leadership and achieving team results. Creates a rich territory for exploration and sets the foundation for action step development.
Program Components
- 1:1 Interviews with Key Players
- Team Diagnostic Assessment (TDA) with 5 customized open-ended questions deployed to individuals assessing team
- DISC Assessment deployed to individuals assessing self
- 2-day Experiential Team Workshop (meets offsite in designated teams)
- 6-months follow-on coaching, consulting, process work and skill building with designated teams
- 6-months follow-on leadership coaching for key leaders
- Redeploy TDA with 1 day debrief, action planning session for designated teams
Contact Us
To learn more about the Strategic Team Alignment Program, please call 847-698-6500 or fill out our contact form.