Executive Team Development

The CliftonStrengths assessment is a research-based assessment that transforms great potential into greater performance. The assessment offers actionable, legitimate insights into how to work better as a team as you fully understand your strengths, as well as the strengths of your partners for team building.

Simplified, the first step to improving teamwork is through knowing your team's strengths. Know where you and your team members thrive because of your strengths -- which come naturally -- and build stronger teams, thus improving teamwork.

Executive team development and strengths-based leadership empower leaders and the people who follow, fostering a healthy and positive workplace. This program will allow leaders time to "reboot" as we reprioritize to focus on strengths to improve performance, engagement, and job satisfaction, ultimately positively affecting the business.  

Team Reboot Package

• Team Audit: 1:1 meetings with each team members to learn what is working/not working within the team
• Launch Strengths Assessment and 1:1 strengths discovery session from a career coach
• Series of Team Coaching Retreats (about 15 hours of content total) combines the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team with Clifton strengths model
• To identify the challenges, understand team norms, create actions to improve trust, communication
• The team has the chance to learn the strengths profile of the executive team, ask questions, and see how their own strengths can provide cognitive diversity and complement partnerships
• Ongoing learning and support with Strengths Boost

Results – what can the team expect: 

• Team members take things less personally, set egos or blame aside, learn when to step up, and when to step back or rely on someone else’s expertise. 
• Reaffirm commitment to a common mission
• Have a hard conversation but through a disarming language of strengths
• Gain awareness of the 2 or 3 issues central that impact team building/dynamics/functioning and begin practicing action steps for the reboot
• Show genuine appreciation for each other and begin to value the difference in work style instead of experiencing frustration
• Experience a collective exhale and reset
• Confidence to share direct feedback or manage future conflict with a common language of strength

Perfect for: 

• A new team leader who wants to establish healthy team dynamics from the start and learn how to bring out the best in each person on the team 
• Team with internal camps and cliques who need to establish one team identity
• Mergers that require a fast culture reset to get up to speed
• Teams who want to move beyond a toxic incident or personality that holds the team back

Engaged employees aren't just happy employees - they significantly outperform others on crucial performance outcomes. 

Teamwork is increasingly becoming more complex. People often must work together from various offices and different teams to communicate and align work despite frequently changing environments. And, we have an increasingly disruptive environment working remotely these days. Therefore teamwork and proper communication not only become more critical but the opportunity for it to go awry also increases. 

What if your group could have an honest conversation about what you need from one another to do your best work? Or, what if your team could push the re-set button and break through the same old team dynamics? 

With its roots in positive psychology, this program will help foster genuine trust and respect, the foundation for success for any group. 

Critical partners are two people in the same organization whose success depends upon each other. Has an important work relationship gotten off-track? Is there a retention risk because two people are having difficulty seeing eye to eye or working effectively together? 

This joint coaching package will help each person step back and understand their differences in a whole new way. Expert coaching guides difficult conversations so the pair can break through old patterns of communication and push the reset button on the relationship. 

Critical partners coaching is designed to participants:  

• Create a shared vision for an improved working relationship – define goals and what success looks like
• Understand their own innate talents and use individual strengths to meet performance goals
• Develop a greater appreciation for each other’s unique strengths and explore how to leverage their differences
• Map out communication style differences and develop strategies to improve communication
• Identify factors that have impeded the working relationship and create an action plan going forward

“I engaged Strengths Now recently to work with two of my most talented staff that were struggling with finding the most impactful way that they could work together to lead their teams and maximize the effectiveness of that leadership.  I am so pleased with the approach that Sara took.  The outcome was exactly what I had hoped.  My own leadership style was also informed by the process.  Thank you Strengths Now!”  - University Dean