What words describe your team?
Do the words collaborative, energized, accountable, courageous, streamlined, and candor come to mind?
Or is it closer to words like territorial, apprehensive, passive, stuck, tense, and silos?
Effective teams accomplish so much more. Your job as a leader is to multiply the strengths of the people on your team. To build clarity, accountability, and focus.
Let's build your team.
To work with your team, our strategy may include standalone workshops, custom offsites, assessments, or coaching.
Workshops
Our experiential workshops introduce a key concept and give your team members a supportive space to practice and learn a new skill. Our skilled facilitators invite discussion and support a dynamic learning environment. We find that while learning from us and from each other, there is always plenty to be learned for both the more and less experienced people on your team.
Do your team members have a hard time hearing or giving feedback? Do you understand what their key strengths are and how to leverage that for the team as a whole? Do people with different personality types have a harder time communicating? Let's tackle these and other challenges and empower your team to succeed.
Frequent topics:
Accountability
Effective feedback
Difficult conversations
Strengths and team talents
Personality types
Effective communication
Vision and goals
Leadership feedback and 360 tools
Coaching skills
“A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”
Some options:
Thought partnership and design for your offsite without our facilitation
Facilitation for some portions of your offsite
Design and facilitation for the entire offsite
Followup resources to integrate team goals and accountability after the offsite
Offsites
Time away from the flurry of daily meetings and the office environment can do wonders for your team's ability to focus on what matters.
Is everyone on your team clear on what the vision is, what the goals are, and how to get there? Are there overlapping responsibilities that create confusion around ownership? Is everyone following the same rules of communication and prioritization?
With engaging, energizing offsites, let’s align your team, articulate goals, communicate resource needs, and design an effective path forward, maximizing the value of your team’s time.
Options for coaching your team:
An entire team of direct reports
A cross-functional team or working group
Key collaborators who are at an impasse
Heads of departments
Executive leadership team
Team Coaching
There are times when direct coaching is the best way to heal rifts and build trust.
This may include coaching two people with a history of challenges, or may be for a larger group to enable change.
This kind of coaching leverages coach training specific to working with teams and key collaborators. This approach creates a safe environment for disagreement in service of aligning around what really matters and where to go from here.
Oftentimes, coaching team members individually around workshop content or assessments—like 360 feedback, personality type, or strengths—is the most effective way to integrate learning and shift behavior in a positive direction. This option is available as a standalone or in tandem with our workshops or offsites.
Some preferred tools
There are many tools out there. The most important job of a tool is to provide a framework that enables discussion and understanding. In case you're curious, these are some of my favorite tools for working with leaders and teams. We will work together to decide what makes sense for your team.
Get More Traction with Your Team
Get in touch for a complimentary call to explore your needs. Whether or not you decide to work with me, you'll gain more clarity for the work ahead.
StrengthsFinder and team applications
MBTI & Insights Discovery (personality typing)
Leadership Circle Profile (360)
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Team change management tools by ORSC
Immunity to Change
Difficult Conversations
Co-Active experiential learning processes
Nonviolent communication (NVC)
Impact
“[Our] Team is so grateful for the time and effort you put into our offsite. You have helped to guide us down a clearer path to successful communication and collaboration as a team!”
“When I first got to Airbnb, the marketing leadership team need a lot of help in terms of collective understanding of each other, psychological safety, vision and purpose. Julia worked with me to develop a robust and effective leadership team development program. She led the design of the program and co-facilitated all of my offsites. In a few short months I’m proud to say that the marketing leadership team at Airbnb became one of the most respected in Silicon Valley. Thanks in a huge part to Julia.”
“Thank you for hosting the workshop today. I really appreciate the opportunity to step back and reflect in a constructive way. I’m certainly more conscious of how I want to frame my work (and non-work) goals and how I can shape the path onward.”