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Team building for senior leadership teams
Many senior leadership teams are a set of strong functional heads who meet once a week. Our team building for senior leadership teams turns that group into a team that owns shared priorities and decides together.
- Duration
- Customizable
- Format
- Online or in-person
- For
- Senior leadership teams
- Led by
- ICF and IMC certified coaches
The challenge
Your senior leaders run strong functions, not a strong team.
- 01
The leadership meeting is a round of functional updates, and the cross-functional issue that matters is never tabled.
- 02
Decisions agreed in the room are reopened in side conversations a day later.
- 03
Functions compete for budget and people, and the organization below sees the split and takes sides.
Who it's for
Designed for the people who carry the work.
Team Building Training for Senior Leadership works best when the right people are in the room. These are the groups we design it for.
Outcomes
What changes after Team Building Training for Senior Leadership.
Practical shifts your people take back to work the next day, and keep using.
Program
6 modules, built for real work.
Each step mixes short input with practice on your own situations, so the learning sticks.
Why this team exists
Defining the work that only the senior leadership team can do together.
- Team purpose
- Collective versus functional work
- Agreeing on the team's agenda
Trust at senior level
Building the trust needed to be candid with peers who are also competitors for resources.
- Sharing pressures and priorities
- Personal working styles
- Naming unspoken tensions
Healthy conflict and debate
Structured ways to disagree on substance without damaging relationships.
- Debate protocols
- Challenging ideas, not people
- Surfacing the quiet dissent
Decision-making and commitment
Clarifying who decides what, and how the team commits once a decision is taken.
- Decision rights mapping
- Disagree and commit
- Closing the side-conversation loop
Accountability between peers
Holding each other to agreements, rather than leaving it to the CEO.
- Peer commitments
- Review rhythms
- Giving feedback to peers
Leading the organization as one
Aligning how the team communicates and shows up for the wider organization.
- One message
- Role modeling
- Cascading priorities
How it runs
The format, and what's included.
- Duration
- Customizable
- Format
- Online or in-person
- For
- Senior leadership teams
- Led by
- ICF and IMC certified coaches
What's included
- Confidential pre-program interviews with team members
- Team building activities built around your live strategic issues
- Facilitation by ICF and IMC certified coaches
- A team charter agreed by all members
- Follow-up review session with the team
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FAQ
Questions about Team Building Training for Senior Leadership.
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Ask a question →What does team building for senior leadership teams involve?
Facilitated working sessions on purpose, trust, healthy debate, decision-making and peer accountability. We use the team's real business issues as material, so the work improves both how the team operates and the decisions in front of it.
Will senior leaders take part in team building activities?
Yes, when they are relevant. We use structured exercises that lead straight into discussion of the team's own patterns, not generic games.
How is confidentiality handled?
Individual interviews are confidential. We share themes with the team, not who said what, so leaders can be candid about what is holding the team back.
How long is the team building program?
Duration and format are agreed upon with you. Senior teams often prefer a series of sessions linked to their existing leadership calendar.
Who facilitates?
Sessions are led by Team Transformation's ICF and IMC certified coaches. Our founder, Dr. Haris Syed, is an ICF Master Certified Coach.
Request a proposal
Share a few details. Our team will come back to you within one working day.
- 1We reply to understand your goals.
- 2We run a short diagnostic with you.
- 3You get a clear proposal, tailored to you.
