Our Team Coaching and Facilitation Services
Deep C provides coaching and facilitation for leadership teams looking to review their performance, reset direction and ways of working, or re-invent the way they engage with the business and their external stakeholders. We can work with your team in situ, during an offsite or executive retreat – or we can collaborate with you on a more structured programme.
COACHING COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
Examples of our work:
- A Country Manager who wants to enhance the learning, effectiveness and growth of the senior executive team
- The senior leadership team whose members are reluctant to collaborate on a controversial new operating model
- The Board whose meetings are perceived as too polite and repeatedly fail to address an important ‘elephant in the room’
FACILITATING COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS TO PROVIDE A TIPPING POINT FOR CHANGE
Examples of our work:
- Tensions between members of the executive team have evidently started to play out further down the organisation
- Relationships in a heavily siloed senior management team are preventing commercial synergies from being realised
- Growing pains and diverging views on strategy are restricting an SME’s management team from leading and growing the business
ACCELERATING HIGH PERFORMANCE IN NEW LEADERSHIP TEAMS TO MOVE THEM FORWARD ‘AS ONE’ AT PACE
Examples of our work include:
- A senior leader needs to accelerate the integration of his new international team, comprising established staff and recent hires
- The board of a recently merged company comprising two former competitors requires greater collaboration amongst executives
- A recently restructured global procurement leadership team is under pressure to deliver more, faster – and with fewer resources
BUILDING CONNECTIONS AND FACILITATING LEARNING TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN GROUPS
Examples of our work include:
- Increasing turnover of high potentials in a professional services firm is diluting the Partner-level talent pool
- Senior sales leaders in developing markets look to consolidate and apply their learning following a global leadership programme
- Regional healthcare leaders are tasked with implementing a controversial pilot programme for the delivery of primary care
OUR APPROACH
Much like the undertow created near the shoreline, so it is with leadership teams. The ‘emotional undertow’ of teams is a naturally occurring phenomenon, largely unseen and one that operates as a powerful counter-current to progress. It can pull team members ‘beneath the surface’, throwing them off-track from the real work that needs to be done. However, such dynamics can also be harnessed as a force for good, in service of developing as a more cohesive, high-performing team.
In working with leadership teams, we typically find that it’s our deeper focus on team dynamics that provides the platform for achieving a step-change in team effectiveness. Team dynamics go beyond surface behaviour to include those out-of-awareness, psychological forces that might be influencing the direction of a team’s behaviour, performance and well-being.
The leadership teams with whom we work might be ‘stuck’ in their current mode of operating and looking for a way forward. They might aspire to take themselves to the next level of performance, while others might be manifestly dysfunctional in some way. Either way, we work with the team’s business agenda, while being observant of team dynamics: how they are manifest and impact the team – and how they might be used to create a tipping point for change.
THE BENEFITS
We help strengthen leadership teams by:
- Clarifying their collective purpose, aligning team members effectively around a clear strategic narrative
- Developing their appreciation of what might really be going on ‘beneath the surface’ in terms of team dynamics
- Using these insights to foster a more productive approach to trust, open communication, mindset, feedback and conflict
- Building more collaborative connections within the team and across the business
- Enhancing the team’s reflexivity and resilience and its capacity for self-renewal.
“I have had several comments from some of the more sceptical members of the leadership team about how credible and business focussed you were in taking us through the programme, with everyone agreeing that it proved to be extremely helpful….Clearly we have several issues to resolve as a team but we now have genuine and collective commitment to do so, as well as greater clarity on how we will get there…. Once again, many thanks and we look forward to you ‘holding our feet to the fire’ at the follow-up in three months’ time….”
DIVISIONAL MD, MULTINATIONAL CONSUMER PACKAGING COMPANY
For further details of our team coaching and facilitation services and how we can help your organisation to strengthen its leadership teams, please contact us.