Coaching for Senior Leadership Teams
Moving Teams Beyond Dysfunction and into AlignmentDo you and your partner need to start a fresh chapter with each other?
Is the conflict among your senior leadership team leading to poor results and missed opportunities?
They say that ‘familiarity can breed contempt,’ and they’re right. After business partners or senior leaders have gotten to know one another’s quirks and experienced each other’s leadership styles first hand, frustrations and resentments can form. Factor in the reality that most senior leadership teams lack sufficient processes for addressing any interpersonal problems that may have arisen and differences often become a source of conflict that stands in the way of alignment.
Patrick Lencioni’s framework The Five Dysfunctions of a Team identified the fact that all teams are predisposed to five different types of dysfunctions as a pure function of human nature. Sign up for our email series (below) to learn more.
The question is – Who will you enlist to develop your team beyond those dysfunctions? How does your team become a high performing group that works in lock-step with one another?
In our work with countless leadership teams, we’ve found that family-owned businesses are highly prone to this type of conflict due to the intimate nature of their relationships. This includes the many married couples operating companies together. – It can sometimes feel impossible for them to separate work from family-life.
Senior leadership teams that have too many insecurities among them also fall prey to getting bogged down by personality differences. They tend to react to one-another in ways that can be far from ideal and they develop “negative interaction cycles”.
Take one of our clients, for example: Their all-male senior leadership team was handling conflict in toxic ways. The COO would lash out angrily and other senior leaders would placate him to keep the peace. But it wasn’t until we stepped in that they learned how to resolve conflict with each other effectively. Now, there is a code of conduct in place among them and more collaboration on how to get the job done.
These situations call for a combination of skills found uniquely in the expertise at Flourish Executive Counseling & Coaching:
- The insights and de-escalation skills that come from Angela Sasseville’s graduate degree in Systemic Change and 20+ years of experience in Relationship Psychology.
- The professional development strategies needed to outgrow old patterns and replace them with more effective tactics.
- The expert-level coaching skills required to elicit change from every single player on the leadership team.
“We engaged Angela for some coaching for our partnership and she far exceeded my expectations in many ways. I am so thankful for all that I learned about myself and how she helped us implement new ways of running our successful office. I am very confident that with these new skills in management style we will continue to grow and ‘flourish’!!! Worth the time and financial investment many times over in my opinion.”
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