The Leadership Edge - The Challenge of Leadership

We help with the potential organizational tripwires. They are many ways to stumble and we are there to support you when the challenging issues arise. We help to re-establish the effectiveness and efficiency that are essential to individual, team and company success. We take on challenging issues. For example,

a. Leadership: picking the right new leader for a mission critical team

b. New Leaders: insuring a new leader gets on board, gets accepted by their team and takes charge quickly and jump starts the business

c. Teams: fixing broken teams or building new ones

d. Communication: rebuilding cross functional communication where blame and finger pointing dominated

e. Meetings: making inefficient and wasteful meetings effective and exciting

f. Conflict Resolution: settling resistant and painful conflicts between executives or teams

g. Transitions: handling the fears and resistance around transitions, reorganizations or mergers that stop progress

h. Business Processes: re-crafting broken business processes that disable your ability to execute and grow

i. Coaching: coaching executives who are facing developmental or organizational ruts

j. Strategy: resetting the strategy when the old models no longer work

k. Values Alignment: making sure the real values of the company are driving people’s actions

l. Customer Relations: helping teams assess what is broken in their customer relationships

m. Feedback Systems: creating solid, effective 360 degree feedback to executives who may have developed a blind spot

Decision making is the heart and soul of executive activity. We help you examine the issues that keep you up at night or cause you to go round and round trying to find a best course. Our experience helps to focus the choices, lead to new ways of thinking and put a plan in place.

The Stages of our Work Process

1. Understanding the client organization and its leadership

a. By learning a company's style, competitive strategy and goals, we are able to grasp the context in which it must compete and how it plans to succeed.

2. Defining the organizational needs

a. We help our clients develop a clearer picture of the key components that must be addressed.

3.Gathering data on the issues/dilemmas

a. We systematically gather interview and survey data to be sure we have a multi-dimensional view of current issues.

4. Engaging the problem

a. Consistent with organizational constraints and opportunities, we develop a plan and a timetable to address the critical issues.

5. Debriefing the results

a. We regularly discuss progress and what needs to be tuned to increase the quality of our contribution.

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