The importance of building and maintaining a Collaborative Team Culture
The most important and most underestimated leadership transition is the one of leading through others. It requires letting go of control, trusting others and influencing results differently. So the first step in building a collaborative team culture, starts with yourself.
The second important step is to help the leadership team to form, storm, norm and perform. This involves encouraging strong relationships, while resolving any systemic blockages that might stand in their way to perform. Structured effort enables you to create alignment, fasten decision-making and increases your leadership effectiveness.
Defining Direction and Following Through: Strategic Planning Workshops
Defining direction, what is our vision about how the market is evolving and how are we uniquely positioned in it? What are the essential choices we need to make? How do we follow through in delivering on these quarter per quarter?
If your leadership team works smart and focused, decision making is thorough and has been bought into.
Facilitating Organizational Alignment
When implementing a new strategic direction, top-down communication is not sufficient. Are the senior leadership team members effectively team leaders and people developers?At what level of the organisation does execution face roadblocks? Which inherent paradoxes need cross-functional or global alignment? Are we listening to resistence? What is it telling us?
