But back-to-back meetings and deadlines take precedence over building the collaborative relationships so critical to solving today’s complex organizational challenges.
One Team of Leaders, a multi-faceted initiative ideal for matrixed organizations and cross-functional teams, empowers partners, departments, and stakeholders to coalesce into “one team” that operates with a leadership mindset.
The result is strategic alignment and a natural inclination to “reach across the silo” to leverage the talent required to overcome organizational challenges and deliver results together.
Custom-designed One Team of Leaders engagements include options from a slate of features.
We start with a Continuum Climate Study using surveys and interviews to explore organizational dynamics, surface core needs and challenges, build trust and rapport, and collect information used to design a retreat and process that will deliver maximum impact.
We then design and facilitate a Continuum Retreat to build cross-functional team cohesion and leverage team strengths to surface solutions.
During the retreat, participants learn applicable leadership tools, rally around three to four organizational challenges; design action plans; and co-create partnering agreements needed to deliver the plan. Action planning teams often stay together following the retreat to ensure implementation.
Engagement, empowerment and a paradigm shift make One Team of Leaders work every time.
Gone are the days when problems and decisions could be pushed up to senior leaders to solve. Today, success requires a mental shift in how individual team members think and work together, from “It’s not my problem to solve” to “I own this problem to solve.”
Everyone is a leader in his/her/their area of influence, regardless of position.
When the team adopts a leadership mindset that drives every interaction every day, positive change results. Not only does a culture of proactive leadership emerge but new lines of communication are established, and alignment, trust and commitment are enhanced.