Team and Leadership Coaching

An amazing phenomenon is that within a high-performing team, 1 +1 + 1 can equal 6 or 9 or 19. Teams have the ability to take individual efforts and when put together, become exponentially greater than the sum of those efforts, creating significantly greater impact.

High Performance Team Coaching

Working on a high-impact team is often one of the most rewarding professional experiences for its members.

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Leadership Coaching

Working as a high-performing leader is often one of the most rewarding professional experiences

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

It’s easy to get good players. It’s getting them to play together that’s the hard part.

Casey Stengel

Becoming a High Performing Team
is not easy

It takes work and there are a number of challenges that can hinder the team from becoming high-performing. Some of the biggest challenges are…

The challenges listed are common to many teams we have worked with over the years that have successfully made the journey to High Performing. Part of the work initially is to enable teams to move from being unconsciously incompetent to becoming consciously incompetent -to become aware of the challenges, with clarity and without judgment. When the team can align behind ‘what truly is’, they can then move onto the path of development. And noticeable change often begins to occur fairly rapidly as teams begin the journey. Many team leaders in fact, often pause and wonder why they hadn’t embarked on this work sooner.

Being overly polite and “too nice”

Conversations are superficial and transactional, with often very loud unspoken conversations across the team. Members are hesitant, to be honest with one another in fear of damaging relationships or in being viewed as disruptive.

Avoiding Conflict

People dance around issues with each other, are reluctant to have difficult conversations and direct conflict conversations are avoided within the team. Members triangulate rather than have hard conversations directly with one another.

Undue dependency on the leader

The team leader finds themselves making all or most of the decisions, with team members regularly turning to the leader rather than at least proposing or suggesting a path forward. The team leader often indicates that they are not spending enough time managing up or focusing on the bigger picture.

Focusing primarily on the tactical/operational

The team is operating at a lower altitude than needed to in order to thrive. They find themselves getting far too operational, focusing on the day-to-day aspects of the enterprise that their direct reports need to be owning. Instead of working on the strategic challenges and opportunities, they find that they are micromanaging their respective teams.

Ineffective decision-making

Members feel that they all need to weigh in on every decision, that they never have enough information or data before making a decision, and maybe fearful of making the wrong decision or are not clear as to who owns what decisions.

Operating in silos

The team operates more like a group of individual contributors rather than a leadership team. Everyone has their heads down, operating independently of one another, focusing on their local part of the enterprise, with a clear functional or geographic focus with the leader finding themselves as the hub, in the middle of it all.

Here’s How We Begin the Journey

The first couple of questions we typically ask potential clients is “Why do you need to be a team?” And “why do the work of becoming a high-performing team?”

This is a journey of evolution and change. It’s a difficult and often uncomfortable path that often requires the team and its members to take on different mindsets, behaviors, relationships, ways of working, and align around different team focus areas and goals. It requires great commitment and results in great rewards. And the rewards far outweigh the efforts needed to become a high-performing team.

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Let the adventure begin!

If you’re interested in embarking on the journey to becoming high performing, let’s set up a discovery call. I’d be happy to help you assess your needs and determine the best path for you and/or your team.