Effective Executive Teams

OUR POINT OF VIEW

A high performing executive team is the critical first step. The purpose of a high performing executive team is to:

1	Set and execute a strategy that adds significant value to customers and/or shareholders
2	Build organizational capabilities and alignment to deliver the strategy
3	Reliably deliver short-term commitments
4	Develop leaders

Many executive teams get caught-up in day-to-day checks of financial or operational indicators and fail to deliver critical strategic tasks. We believe that executive team effectiveness in delivering these four results is the single most important predictor of business performance.

ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

- Does your business have a strategy that adds significant customer and shareholder value?
- Are strategic objectives are reliably delivered
- Are your organizational capabilities improving year-over-year?
- Do your executives exploit potential synergies between their responsibilities?

OUR VALUE PROPOSITION

Many consulting firms provide workshops, processes and tools for improving teaming, but few have a clear vision of a successful executive team or a roadmap to get from here to there. Ours is a focused and measured approach for improving executive team performance. All members will know where the team is going, how it is progressing on the roadmap, and when it has arrived. This is not a series of disjointed team building exercises, this is about year-over-year measured performance improvements. This is about results, not activities.

Offerings	Output
Strategy Development Forum	Refreshed strategy and execution plan.
Strategy Execution Workshop	Tightened measurement and management process to ensure strategy execution.
Top Team Development	Defines the mission, membership, outputs, roles for team and individual members, and defines “rules of the road." Also, creates cadence of executive team meetings and defines purpose, outputs, standard agendas, attendees and roles for each.
Top Team Climate Improvement	Strengthens the team's climate on six dimensions: Clarity, Standards, Flexibility, Accountability, Rewards, Team Commitment.
Organizational Capability Growth Plan	Team members identify the most critical organization capabilities from a list of 11 generic capabilities and determine how to manage with discipline to ensure year-over-year growth.