Building an Effective Leadership Team
Building an Effective Leadership Team is a facilitated program your leadership team goes through together. This program puts your leaders in the room together for a series of facilitated half-day sessions and works on how they operate as a group.
We measure where the team stands before the first session and again after the last one, so you can see what changed.
A More Confident, Effective Leadership Team
Confident decision making.
Your team agrees on how decisions get made and who owns them, so the same question stops resurfacing three weeks later.
Accountability the team enforces itself.
Leaders hold each other to what they committed to, so enforcement stops being a job you carry alone.
Conflict settled at their level.
Leaders learn to disagree directly and work an issue through, so cross-functional friction gets resolved before it reaches you.
Faster movement on your priorities.
Alignment at the top cascades. When your leadership team is aligned, the layers below move on the same thing.
Problems raised early.
Leaders trust each other enough to flag a risk while it is still small, so you hear about it while you can still act.
Who It’s For
Intact leadership teams that attend together. A leadership course develops one leader at a time. This works on what happens between people who are on the same leadership team.
Owner-led and smaller organizations
You’ve hired capable people and you are still the bottleneck, because your key people have yet to gel into a team you can hand things to.
We bring in a neutral facilitator, someone who can say what an insider cannot, so the hard conversations finally happen and go somewhere.
Larger organizations
Your senior team is siloed in practice. Leaders protect their business units, cross-functional decisions drag, and misalignment at the top spreads through every layer below it.
The program gives your team one standard for how decisions get made and carried out.
Focused on Key Behaviors of Top Leadership Teams
The program is typically delivered in five or six half-day sessions. Each session combines your team’s own assessment data with facilitated discussion and application to the decisions your team is facing right now.
How each leader’s style shows up in the room, and how to adapt to the others.
The expectations and feedback habits that make it safe to be direct with each other.
Where conflict on your team comes from, and five strategies for working it through to a better decision.
How decisions get made, who owns them, and how leaders hold each other to them.
Your team’s role in driving change, including how to read whether the organization is ready for it.
360-degree feedback and an individual action plan for each leader.
Assessments We Use
Depending on your team needs, we may recommend assessments from The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Everything DiSC, MBTI, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, and 360-degree feedback.
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Facilitator
Tom Ault, Senior Solutions Consultant & Trainer
Tom Ault has designed and facilitated a full spectrum of customized training programs for clients spanning all industries.
Before starting with ERC, Tom spent over 30 years with Diebold, Inc. where he held several roles in Organizational Development and Lean Six Sigma Implementation.
Tom also carries nearly a dozen certifications, including Master Trainer, Myers–Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®): Step I™ & Step II™, DiSC® Facilitation, The Leadership Circle Profile™360, TRACOM’s PRO Social Style®, Behavioral EQ®, Adaptive Mindset for Resiliency®, and Adaptive Mindset for Agility®.
Frequently Asked Questions
Leadership courses develop individual skills, and each participant returns to the same team dynamics they left. This program puts your whole leadership team in the room together and works on what happens between people: trust, conflict, decision-making, and accountability. The whole team builds the same habits at the same time, so progress sticks.
The Five Behaviors is a team development model from Wiley based on Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, one of the most widely read business books on teamwork. It measures and builds five things in sequence: trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability, and collective results. ERC is an authorized Wiley partner and delivers the validated assessment as part of this program.
Your team takes the Five Behaviors assessment at the start of the program and again near the end. The re-measurement shows exactly where the team improved across trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. You’ll also feel it in the meetings: debates get shorter, decisions get clearer, and follow-through becomes something you can count on.
Yes. Many of the teams we work with are an owner and their four or five key people. The framework applies wherever a group of leaders needs to operate as a unit, and the neutral outside facilitator is often most valuable in owner-led companies, where nobody inside the room can play that role.
Schedule a Consultation
Contact our team and tell us about your leadership team and what prompted the search. We’ll walk you through the program, scope it to your team, and provide pricing.
