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1 in 3C-suite leaders strongly doubt their team’s ability to work together effectively. Source: Leadership Confidence Index H2 2024, RRA
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Even the most talented individual leaders can fail to create impact at the top team level. In fact, the very strengths that propelled their individual success—decisiveness, strong opinions, and autonomous action—can actively work against team performance.
We help leaders move beyond individual excellence to unlock the exponential power of collaboration and achieve breakthrough results.
The team effectiveness questions we help you answer
Organizations often struggle to pinpoint what's holding their teams back from peak performance. Whether you're seeking to strengthen executive alignment, improve collaboration, or prepare for future challenges, start by asking:
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What stands between our current team dynamics and optimal performance?
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How can we foster collaboration and accelerate decision-making within our top team?
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How do we build and sustain high performance across teams?
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Where are the gaps in our team's collective capabilities versus future needs?
Our proprietary framework: Productive Tensions for Top Teams
Leadership teams face unique challenges that require specialized solutions. Our research-based Productive Tensions for Top Teams model identifies four essential tensions that top teams must master to achieve sustainable high performance.
Adaptability
Balance creating new growth opportunities and business models while driving continuous improvement and incremental innovation in existing products and services.
Perspective
Navigate the tension between building long-term competitive advantage and delivering near-term value in the current market environment.
Atmosphere
Capitalize on team dynamics by fostering trust and collaboration while harnessing diverse perspectives and healthy competition to drive enterprise-wide outcomes.
Team Leader
Enable CEOs to flex their leadership approach to team context and needs while maintaining decisive influence on team performance.
This framework is specifically designed for top teams, with specialized consideration for the CEO's distinct role. It adapts to your organization's market, industry, and strategic priorities, allowing you to create and evolve team dynamics that align with your business strategy.
Breaking through the collaboration barrier
Most leadership teams operate below their potential, stuck in patterns of interaction that limit their collective impact. Our approach looks beyond surface-level team dynamics to address the root causes. We combine behavioral science with practical business experience to help teams develop new ways of working that unlock their full potential.
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Decode group dynamicsWe reveal the hidden patterns in how your team processes information, makes decisions, and handles conflict to identify specific opportunities for improved collective performance. |
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Build systemic thinkingOur approach helps teams move beyond individual viewpoints to develop a truly shared understanding of complex challenges and opportunities in today’s fast-moving world. |
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Accelerate team learningWe create the conditions for rapid experimentation with new ways of working, allowing teams to quickly evolve their effectiveness and deliver standout performance for your organization. |
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Frequently asked team effectiveness questions
What is team effectiveness?
Team effectiveness is the capability of a leadership team to work together optimally to achieve organizational goals. It encompasses elements like strategic alignment, decision-making efficiency, communication patterns, and the ability to drive transformational change. Effective teams demonstrate high levels of trust, psychological safety, and productive conflict resolution.
What makes leadership teams high performing?
High-performing leadership teams exhibit several key characteristics: clear shared purpose, strong alignment on strategic priorities, efficient decision-making processes, psychological safety balanced with accountability, and the ability to have productive conflict. These teams also demonstrate agility in responding to changing business conditions.
How do you measure team effectiveness?
We use a multi-dimensional assessment approach that evaluates team dynamics, decision-making processes, and business outcomes. This includes proprietary diagnostic tools, behavioral observations, and performance metrics to create a comprehensive view of team functioning and identify specific areas for improvement.