TOP TEAM DEVELOPMENT EXPEDITIONS
Transform Leader Team cohesion, capability and impact.
Who we work with
IN-COUNTRY LEADER TEAMS
SENIOR EXEC TEAMS
CENTRAL & GLOBAL FUNCTION TEAMS
The conditions we create to accelerate business value creation
+78%
ELT TRUST, PURPOSE & ALIGNMENT
x2.5
ELT ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS TO ACCELERATE TEAM IMPACT
Impact after 2 day Top Team Expedition
+86%
TOP 100 BUY-IN & ALIGNMENT
+91%
TOP 100 LEADERSHIP CONFIDENCE
Impact after "Top 100" Engagement Event
Impact of our 2 day workshops across client firms 2021 -2024
BUILD TRUST
ALIGN ON VALUE CREATION
ACCELERATE INDIVIDUAL LEADER IMPACT
Only top teams who feel, think, and act differently together can lead their people to do the same.
So any other work we may do together (1:1 coaching, leader development programmes etc) follows a 2-day Top Team Expedition.
Top Team Expedition: key principles
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NO SET FORMULA: your journey is uniquely shaped to your business context, and your team's reality.
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LEADING GLOBAL PRACTICE: - what we'll bring to shape and inform your Top Team Journey.
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FLEXIBLE TO YOU: single workshop for 6 people? Or a 9 month build-up to an event for 200? Spend 2 days with us, then decide.
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Potential structure and key themes over a 9 month Top Team journey​​​
WORKSHOP 01
Build trust, team & leader self awareness, re-set relationships
WHO FOR: TOP TEAM (ELT)
(max c. 16 pax)
MONTH 1
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Creating the space for Top Team Development
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Shared language & insights
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Team dynamics , issues, opportunities
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Speaking tough truths
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Leadership narrative
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Behaviour & interaction patterns & bllind-spots
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Team purpose / individual purpose
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LT Ways of Working
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Individual experiments / commitments #1
WORKSHOP 02
Accelerate
Leader Team Value Creation​
WHO FOR: TOP TEAM (ELT)
(max c. 16 pax)
MONTH 2-3
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​Deep dive on LT ambition / purpose / deliverables
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Identify critical “make or break” challenges
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Confront the reality of what's really going on
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Map collaboration value chains
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Mind-set and behaviour shifts you need to lead for
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Listening & coaching: peer challenge & support
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Individual and team experiments and commitments #2
WORKSHOP 03
Leading in practice: build distributed leadership capacity​
WHO FOR: ELT + DIRECT REPORTS
(max c. 60 pax)
MONTH 5-6
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Welcome Direct Reports “under the tent”
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Demonstrate listening and engagement
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Share the journey / test & co-develop narrative
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Nurture talent / create step-up opportunities
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Build clarity, confidence & commitment in direction & decisions
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Transfer leadership tools and skills
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Showing up as a single Leader Team
WORKSHOP 04
Transform Leadership Impact
Business-wide
WHO FOR: TOP 100-200
(max c. 200 pax)
MONTH 8-9
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Build buzz, excitement, honesty, and belonging
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Leadership narrative, listening & engagement
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Empower the next levels down to create and drive bold, practical strategies and plans
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Strengthen the basis for credibility and partnership with key stakeholders
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Foster radical levels of collaboration
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Drive innovation and growth
So what can go wrong?​
You need a great return on this kind of investment - your time is too precious for anything less.
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3 thoughts we'd like to share:
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1. Transforming your Top Team should be fun, not heavy - but it's not always easy fun
Charismatic facilitators get a buzz from leaving teams on a high after a great initial workshop. But it doesn't work. Your goal is to drive bigger value creation. The beliefs and behaviours tripping you up need you to start having a different experience of each other.
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2. The best results come from a Top Team journey of several workshop and coaching interventions over a period of months.
If that feels too steep an investment, how much more time and money will it cost if you fail to shift what needs shifting now? Find the right development partner, and commit to the journey.
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3. You're in trusted hands.
We don't play how you'd like us to. We'll raise all the awkward questions. We won't follow a rigid running order. Because what counts isn't our experience - it's yours. It takes instinct, adaptability, and a ton of experience to pursue and resolve what's truly important - vs. what a facilitator may believe they need to cover before we've even started.
"You read the room with enormous sensitivity, made the uncomfortable
comfortable, and got to the very heart of what makes us tick."
(Senior leader, Pharma)
2-DAY LEADER TEAM DEVELOPMENT EXPEDITION WORKSHOP
WHAT'S INCLUDED - Senior leader / workshop sponsor calls - weekly sequence of prep and briefing calls with sponsor/planning team - detailed workshop design and all inputs (N.B. there is of course some flexibility for short business-focussed inputs you may wish to incorporate) ​ 1:1 INTERVIEWS - 45 min individual Zoom calls - write up of anonymised key quotes and insights - pre-workshop interview feedback calls with leader and sponsor team  SENIOR LEADER COACHING - Pre-workshop leader prep & coaching calls and notes - Pre-workshop Leader interview feedback call - During workshop: flexible daily breakfast coaching / reflection sessions WORKSHOP DELIVERY - x1 or 2 facilitators, depending on team size, for 2 days - all models, charts, tools POST-WORKSHOP - Post-workshop wrap-up / leader impact call - your metrics and impact story - bespoke deck and resources pack
FOLLOW-UP WORKSHOPS, COACHING, FACILITATION TRAINING
FOLLOW UP WORKSHOPS - Executive Team or larger group workshops - transform cohesion, alignment, leadership capability - prices depend on numbers and duration 1:1 COACHING - Executive Coaching to help you better understand the leadership challenges you are facing, and develop effective approaches to address them. - pod coaching for groups of 3-4 team members - block of 6 coaching calls: £3,600 ​ LEADER DEVELOPMENT - bespoke whole organisation leader development programmes - deep inquiry into leadership mindsets, behaviours, success factors
What if you don't?
You may try in-house facilitation, or a "Top Team Away Day" and hope for the same kind of impacts our clients report.
We wish you well. But you can't expect the same results. ​
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What we'll deliver is a high-trust, fully aligned, highly energised team of maturing leaders, working together on a powerful shared purpose.
The cost of trying to run your business with anything less?
If you've read this far, we guess you already know the price you're paying for that.
"Transformative. You are an incredibly empathetic, thoughtful and skilful coach. I've also found your positivity and compassion contagious."
(Executive Coaching client)
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