Do your senior managers act as a high-performance team?

Coaching Client Teams

We can help management teams grapple with strategic challenges relating to corporate, market or product strategy — while learning to interact more effectively as a team. We focus on ways to achieve a shared sense of purpose, mission and alignment of tactics against the chosen strategy.

Some clients ask for coaching on best practices, particularly when their employees have come from multiple companies operating under different models.

Unlike organization development experts, we do not perform large-scale “corporate interventions.” When that is required, clients should engage an OD expert.

Some Project Examples

• Coaching teams on product management and product marketing best practices
• Facilitating cross-functional teams that plan to adapt the “stage gate” methodology to guide their company’s product development and decision making process
• Coaching newly promoted marketing managers who are expected to perform at a more demanding level
• Helping organizations clarify roles and responsibilities across product marketing, corporate marketing, program management, etc.

Strategy Facilitation

Over the years we have also helped a number of clients organize and work through their operating plans, annual plans or strategic plans.

Sometimes this takes the form of facilitating the strategic conversation across the executive and leadership teams, via off-sites, workshops and face-to-face meetings.

Some Project Examples

• Working with senior executive teams to design all aspects of their annual Strategy Retreat, and then facilitating their interactions at the offsite, and producing a summary meeting report
• Helping clients design both top-down and bottoms-up annual planning processes
• Providing frameworks to align corporate strategy with department plans and objectives
• Adapting the Strategy Map methodology and Balanced Scorecards to a client’s organizational culture and planning cycles

We have lots of examples we’d be happy to show, to help you think through your planning needs.