Teams Plus Session: Resolving Real Challenges Together

Reach true alignment on mission critical challenges, projects, initiatives and objectives.
Lead change together as committed partners and as a cohesive leadership group.

You do it naturally. You have a mission-critical decision that needs to be made, so you schedule a meeting with the key stakeholders, and try to reach an agreement. But how often does it work as you’d hoped? 1 in every 5 meetings? Maybe 1 in 10?

Trouble is, most groups either comply or intellectually support a decision, but they don’t fully align. Just as meetings are the natural context for decision making, the natural behavior in meetings is to ‘play small’ and defend one’s own area against the encroachment of others. Because they come from different business groups, different regions, even different countries, stakeholders have their own agendas and goals, and they naturally try to protect them.

And even when you manage to get consensus, there’s every chance that what you really have is compliance, not full agreement and commitment. Not ownership. So when it comes time to put the decision into action, there’s no real commitment to making it happen.

In other words, people aren’t aligned emotionally and intellectually. They may go along with a decision but the real problem begins when they walk out the door. The decision is half-heartedly carried out or undermined in hallway conversations.

The specific context — ineffective meetings — is only a symptom of the problem. The real problem is the lack of team mastery in how to dialogue, fully align and effectively execute together. This session builds on the foundation of previous sessions — 100% Accountability and the Private High Performance Leadership session — and is designed to strengthen and develop team skills in making enterprise-oriented decisions in the meeting context, efficiently and wholeheartedly, and to commit to executing those decisions.

The Teams Plus session is designed as an actual business discussion or meeting where you and your leaders resolve real challenges together. With expert leadership and facilitation from the Malandro consultants, your team will learn an alignment process for identifying and resolving problems that have repeatedly stood in the way of success. You’ll learn how to identify the level of alignment of the group and how to achieve full buy-in. How to apply high performance rules of engagement to meetings to have effective dialogues and lead to aligned action. How to confidently and constructively deal head-on with conflict. And how to self-correct unproductive behaviors and get the team back on track quickly. You’ll be able to achieve true alignment, even when there is resistance and skepticism, and get people to take personal ownership for making sure decisions stick, beyond the meeting room door.

When this happens, decisions aren’t just made, and plans aren’t just formulated. They’re executed – efficiently and effectively — from beginning to end.

The Malandro Teams Plus session will take your senior team from compliance, resistance or intellectual buy-in, to true alignment, where leaders support the decision both emotionally and intellectually. They’ll be fully behind the goals of the business. Not just theoretically supportive, but actively working toward them in their day-to-day activities.

How your team will behave after completing the Teams Plus session

Your team will:

• Fully align on key decisions and enthusiastically support them — from beginning to end — as a cohesive leadership group.
• Work together with optimal efficiency to execute mission- and time-critical endeavors, without experiencing burn-out.
• Take personal accountability for being fully aligned — emotionally and intellectually — with decisions and initiatives. Actively support decisions and engage others to do the same.
• Hold each other accountable for sustained alignment, business results and impact on people.
• Work together as an unbeatable team with an unwavering commitment to delivering high performance results.
• Identify and resolve the barriers to sustained alignment, at both the relationship and organizational level, including ‘red flags’ that indicate compliance or a ‘wait and see’ attitude.
• Lead and conduct meetings and interactions effectively and efficiently, using high performance rules of engagement.
• Constructively intervene and self-correct to get the group back on track quickly.

Call +1 480-970-3200 to book your Teams Plus session. More information about this team leadership and team coaching program coming soon.