Leadership Team Development

Develop a strong, aligned, and cohesive leadership team capable of leading the way to results.

From Blocked ❌

  • Your leadership team is mostly a bundle of reporting lines with little shared action.

  • The leaders are firefighting and struggle to prioritize strategic work.

  • Slow decisions due to analysis paralysis or harmony addiction.

  • The team lacks habits of giving feedback, reflecting, and improving.

To Unblocked ✅

  • An interdependent team where everyone contributes to the collective strategy.

  • A strategic rhythm helps the team to steer toward measurable progress.

  • The team models fast, high-quality, inclusive decision-making.

  • A psychologically safe leadership team where people happily take ownership.

How we do it

  1. Start by starting: We let your team identify areas where the team is stuck or limited by outdated organizational practices, and as soon as possible, we teach and facilitate ways to overcome them — inside the existing work.

  2. Strategic Alignment: We help create an inspiring, concrete, and actionable Strategic Intent and discuss the reality of implementation and trade-offs.

  3. Adopt a strategic rhythm: We help the team establish a cadence of fit-for-purpose meetings to track 90-day Outcomes, Steering Metrics, and capture learning from execution.

  4. Empathetic Conversations: To improve collaboration and safety, we create the space for conversations about leadership behavior, work styles, and concerns and turn them into actionable agreements for the team to commit to.

  5. Executive Coaching: Throughout the engagement, we provide feedback, give advice, and coach members of the leadership team in adopting new behaviors that improve results.

The opportunity

"Organizations with strong, aligned and cohesive leadership teams see an increase of 59% in employee engagement and 24% reduction in turnover."

Gallup

Three ways to start

Leadership Offsite

Let us facilitate your leadership team offsite. In 1-2 days, we will upgrade your team with improved ways of collaborating.

Executive Coaching

We act as coach, thought partner and adviser for you or members of your leadership team. Individually or for the whole team.

Team Transformation

A 3-6 month journey to improve your leadership team’s capability of leading the organization and achieving its objectives.

Workshops • Training • Offsites • Retreats • Speeches • Coaching • Consulting

What clients are saying

“Unblock helped us improve our leadership team. Years later, we still use the practices that they taught us. It hugely improved how we meet."

Mike O’Riordan, SVP EMEA and APAC, Ingredion

Read more

  • Strategy that Works: Rethinking the Strategic Process

    In this article, we outline the adaptive strategy process we have successfully used over the years to unblock clients. Read more.

  • Unblock Your Weekly Team Meetings

    In this article, we explain how to redesign your weekly leadership team meeting for maximum effectiveness. Read more.