Senior Executive Team Consulting and Relationship Coaching
Senior leaders are so immersed in running their organizations that they often fail to step back and assess the strength of their own executive team and cross-functional business partnerships. Often, they only stop to consider issues of team process and interpersonal dynamics when they find themselves in the midst of crisis, conflict or transition. The most successful executives regularly assess themselves and strive to continually improve their relationships and overall team functioning for their own personal benefit and that of their organizations. Through team assessment, consultation and relationship coaching, Marcie Elias works with executive teams and dyads to realize their full potential by closely examining and working through the relational dimension of performance and overcoming obstacles to collaboration.
Senior Executive Team Assessment and Coaching | 3-6 Month Engagement
In their collective effort to lead organizations and drive strategic business initiatives, senior executive teams often encounter roadblocks that impede their progress and ability to work together effectively. Due to disparities in personality, communication style and operational modes, the relational dynamics of the team may become strained and create dissension. The most successful executive teams recognize and respect individual differences, strengths and contributions, and work collaboratively to leverage total team capabilities. The way in which the executive team works together and operates sets the tone for the rest of the organization. Therefore, it is imperative for the success of the business and overall health of the company that cross-functional collaboration is embraced and modeled by the senior most leadership team.
An executive team assessment evaluates a team’s strengths to identify areas in which they can further build upon and leverage, and provides valuable insight into the team’s greatest areas of opportunity. As a result of the assessment, teams experience greater awareness and appreciation for the underlying dynamics that exist and are provided with a clear roadmap for improvement and ongoing development. Following an in-depth team assessment, an off-site workshop is conducted where feedback is shared and key issues related to the business strategy, operational execution and relational dynamics are explored and discussed. During this workshop, executive team members are afforded the opportunity to collectively develop resolutions to issues, establish individual and team commitments to future action and outline clear plans to achieve their common objectives. Together, the team works to develop actionable strategies that enable them to tap into shared values, build consensus for the benefit of the organization, manage competing interests effectively and create a strong sense of team camaraderie. Executive offsite design and facilitation and ongoing team consultation are offered in conjunction with the team assessment or as standalone interventions.
Relationship Coaching | 3-6 Month Engagement
In many business environments, two senior executives are highly dependent on one another to accomplish their objectives and must partner effectively to develop and drive the business strategy. However, due to stylistic differences the dyad is unable to forge a strong and productive working relationship. This type of situation can be challenging and often times require an outside party to help facilitate the open exchange of dialogue to work through issues they are encountering and resolve differences. Relationship coaching is designed to improve or rehabilitate key business relationships that have reached a degree of impasse by providing the two parties with a confidential and mediated forum in which they can candidly discuss collaboration roadblocks, develop strategies to overcome them, and establish mutual commitments to strengthening the relationship.
Relationship coaching is also beneficial when two executives are granted a shared responsibility in the organization or required to serve as a co-head to a division or specific functional area. In these types of arrangements, it is critical that an equal distribution of responsibility and authority is realized and that the talents of both executives are leveraged accordingly. Relationship coaching affords the executive pair the opportunity to work through the complexities of this partnership to ensure that role clarity and a sense of shared accountability is achieved. In this confidential forum, the pair establishes joint business objectives, defines clarity for their respective areas, responsibilities and accountabilities, and works together through communication and other differences to achieve maximum business impact in their shared role to wield a higher level of influence in the organization.
Senior Executive Team Assessment and Coaching | 3-6 Month Engagement
In their collective effort to lead organizations and drive strategic business initiatives, senior executive teams often encounter roadblocks that impede their progress and ability to work together effectively. Due to disparities in personality, communication style and operational modes, the relational dynamics of the team may become strained and create dissension. The most successful executive teams recognize and respect individual differences, strengths and contributions, and work collaboratively to leverage total team capabilities. The way in which the executive team works together and operates sets the tone for the rest of the organization. Therefore, it is imperative for the success of the business and overall health of the company that cross-functional collaboration is embraced and modeled by the senior most leadership team.
An executive team assessment evaluates a team’s strengths to identify areas in which they can further build upon and leverage, and provides valuable insight into the team’s greatest areas of opportunity. As a result of the assessment, teams experience greater awareness and appreciation for the underlying dynamics that exist and are provided with a clear roadmap for improvement and ongoing development. Following an in-depth team assessment, an off-site workshop is conducted where feedback is shared and key issues related to the business strategy, operational execution and relational dynamics are explored and discussed. During this workshop, executive team members are afforded the opportunity to collectively develop resolutions to issues, establish individual and team commitments to future action and outline clear plans to achieve their common objectives. Together, the team works to develop actionable strategies that enable them to tap into shared values, build consensus for the benefit of the organization, manage competing interests effectively and create a strong sense of team camaraderie. Executive offsite design and facilitation and ongoing team consultation are offered in conjunction with the team assessment or as standalone interventions.
Relationship Coaching | 3-6 Month Engagement
In many business environments, two senior executives are highly dependent on one another to accomplish their objectives and must partner effectively to develop and drive the business strategy. However, due to stylistic differences the dyad is unable to forge a strong and productive working relationship. This type of situation can be challenging and often times require an outside party to help facilitate the open exchange of dialogue to work through issues they are encountering and resolve differences. Relationship coaching is designed to improve or rehabilitate key business relationships that have reached a degree of impasse by providing the two parties with a confidential and mediated forum in which they can candidly discuss collaboration roadblocks, develop strategies to overcome them, and establish mutual commitments to strengthening the relationship.
Relationship coaching is also beneficial when two executives are granted a shared responsibility in the organization or required to serve as a co-head to a division or specific functional area. In these types of arrangements, it is critical that an equal distribution of responsibility and authority is realized and that the talents of both executives are leveraged accordingly. Relationship coaching affords the executive pair the opportunity to work through the complexities of this partnership to ensure that role clarity and a sense of shared accountability is achieved. In this confidential forum, the pair establishes joint business objectives, defines clarity for their respective areas, responsibilities and accountabilities, and works together through communication and other differences to achieve maximum business impact in their shared role to wield a higher level of influence in the organization.