Coaching Senior Leadership Teams
Turning Senior Leadership Groups into High-Performing Teams
Conflict, unclear decision-making processes, and a lack of alignment—these are just a few of the challenges we frequently encounter when coaching senior leadership teams.
Even seasoned executives often operate more as individuals representing their own divisions than as a unified team working toward a common purpose.
This disconnect stems from several factors.
Departmental Focus: Leaders often prioritize the needs of their individual departments over the organization’s broader goals.
Independent Leadership: Senior leaders are accustomed to running their areas autonomously, making collaboration challenging.
Lack of Feedback: At this stage in their careers, leaders rarely receive feedback that could help them improve their team dynamics.
Building a Unified Team
To overcome these hurdles, Good and Urbina encourage senior leaders to leave their departmental identities behind and embrace their role as members of the leadership team.
Once in the room, their primary responsibility is to serve the organization as a whole. This means focusing on how they can work interdependently to create an environment where the entire organization can thrive.
Good and Urbina begin by analyzing “the system at play”—the team’s internal dynamics and its interactions with the broader organization. Using the Blanchard Team Leadership Model, they assess how well the team is functioning and identify areas for growth.
Our assessment includes 24 questions that address the four essential building blocks of high-performing teams: aligning for results, communicating during conflict, building team cohesion, and sustaining team performance.
Navigating Conflict
Conflict is one of the biggest challenges for leadership teams.
For some people, conflict feels risky; for others, it’s a necessary part of achieving their goals.
The consultants work with teams to strike a balance by teaching strategies for effective communication.
It’s about reframing conflict as a natural and even necessary part of collaboration.
Providing Feedback
Feedback is a cornerstone of the Blanchard approach, but it’s handled carefully to build trust. Good and Urbina often observe regular team meetings and provide feedback afterward, reserving time for one-on-one conversations until the team feels comfortable receiving real-time input.
After trust is established, we’ll ask for permission to provide live feedback during meetings. This fosters accountability and psychological safety, encouraging team members to address issues openly with one another.
Development Workshops
Good and Urbina recommend quarterly workshops to help leadership teams align on goals and develop the skills necessary for high performance.
Team Acceleration Workshops focus on aligning vision, purpose, norms, roles, and goals based on the team’s current priorities.
Team Development Workshops provide additional tools and skills, such as Building Trust, Conversational Capacity®, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership Point of View™.
Keys to Success
Good and Urbina emphasize three critical factors for successful team transformation:
Strong Chemistry: Consultants must build a connection with the team leader and team members.
Active Sponsorship: The team leader must prioritize the initiative and model engagement.
Dedicated Support: A senior L&D or organizational development leader should manage follow-ups and logistics to ensure ongoing progress.
Best Practices
The consultants also recommend a facilitating-consulting-coaching methodology combined with research-based frameworks. This approach enables teams to focus not only on what they do but also on how they work together.
Having two consultants working with a senior team provides a broader perspective on team dynamics and enhances the effectiveness of interventions.
When teams dedicate as much time to improving how they collaborate as they do to achieving their goals, they position themselves to achieve high performance.
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