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Category: Leadership Team Development

Does your Executive Team have the Right Mindset to Lead Transformation?

Blog | Leadership Team Development | 1 minute read
October 21, 2014

As CEO, you need executive leaders with functional knowledge and skills. You count on them to have a level of subject matter expertise, an ability to build strong teams, and be able to make decisions based on what’s best for the overall company. Have you considered whether your executive team has the right mindset to lead […]

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We Don’t Have Conflict on This Team!?!

Blog | Leadership Team Development | 2 minute read
September 17, 2014

Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team framework provides a logical approach for both describing and assessing team effectiveness (and ineffectiveness). Briefly, the model states that if team members don’t trust each other, they won’t engage in constructive conflict, and won’t be committed to and hold each other accountable for results. Almost all of the […]

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Do You Have True Partnership at the ELT Level?

Blog | Leadership Team Development | 2 minute read
July 22, 2014

I want my executive team to be siloed… said NO CEO EVER. Yet, despite the best of intentions, it’s funny how so many still are. Real alignment, integration and execution around common enterprise-wide goals are the dream of all senior teams. But here is a common scenario I get while interviewing members of an executive […]

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The Do Loop – Who’ll Make the First Move – ELT or SLT?

Blog | Leadership Team Development | 2 minute read
December 3, 2013

This time of year* presents a great opportunity to get the ELT and the SLT out of the do loop.  Do Loop? Yes, that age-old issue between the Executive Leadership Team and next level of leadership often called the SLT (Senior Leadership Team). The ELT, finding the SLT as too tactical, lacking in foresight and […]

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Magic Bullets for Alignment and Commitment

Blog | Leadership Team Development | 1 minute read
February 17, 2010

Alignment and commitment are essential ingredients to your organization’s success. Unfortunately, they are often the most difficult to achieve. Why are motivation and alignment so challenging to realize? In my last blog, I talked about the importance of a shared vision in creating alignment and commitment. But vision alone is not enough. Here is an […]

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Successful Partnerships for Leading Change

Blog | Leadership Team Development | 2 minute read
November 16, 2009

Several of my clients are in the midst of significant organization transformations. The goals of the transformations are similar: increasing cross-functional integration (acting less like multiple silos); building stronger enterprise leadership teams to deal with new competitive and economic challenges; improving sales results; seeking ways to utilize talent more effectively. One barrier to success is […]

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