Senior leadership teams face the biggest challenges and engage with the greatest complexity. Our approach to working with these top teams is systemic. What makes Systemic Team Coaching most valuable to businesses today is that it enables the team to reframe and enhance the way it relates to and serves its business environment, which means placing as much emphasis on how the team leads change with its stakeholders as to how it functions internally. Therefore, rather than just focusing on the team’s internal relationships and functioning (the focus of much ‘team-building’ work), the systemic team coach works with the team and its members to build their collective leadership.

We partner with top teams to help them co-create value in their engagement with their stakeholders through two offerings; 1) Executive Offsite 2) Coach in Residence™ Retainer.

Executive Offsite

Companies often host offsite meetings with the hope that executives will leave energized, inspired, and tasked to bring their teams to the next level. A lofty goal like this is well worth the time, assuming the meeting is productive. Unfortunately, many offsites don’t accomplish this goal and when that’s the case, the whole trip is a huge collective waste of time. To avoid this backlash, let us help you maximize every aspect of your off-site so that you can capitalize on your time together.

A successful off-site can align executives, galvanize corporate performance, and strengthen the company’s position in its industry. As former senior leaders, our people understand the distinct issues C-level leaders and their teams face, including strategy formulation, succession planning, transitions of leadership, and complex team dynamics.

Sample client requests:

• It is time to bring our executives together to make strategic directional choices.
• We need to get everyone aligned and fully engaged with a strategic plan that is about to roll out.
• We need an external perspective on the teams' dynamics and effectiveness.

Offsites are fully customizable and typically range from one to three days. To schedule a consultation, inquire now.

Coach in Residence™ Retainer

Our coaches have deep experience helping support global leaders and teams to transition, become fully effective once in place, and adapt to disruption and change. They bring broad expertise to the issues involved in leading complex, matrixed organizations and are intellectually grounded in global economic, social, and political issues. Plus they have personal experience living and working across cultures and borders.

The CKI Coach in Residence™ program facilitates putting key processes in place to grow a high-value creation team to the pinnacle of its performance capacity. It is imperative to focus on your organization as a system to effectively account for interdependencies to effectively implement any necessary changes. Our coaches measure the health of your system by looking at three factors: Capacity, Capabilities, and Culture. They assess your team members individually and collectively to determine if they are operating optimally in each area. If there are gaps, the coaches work with the appropriate individuals and teams to maximize their performance to the benefit of your whole organizational system.

Sample client requests:

• Develop new strategies, approaches and leadership capacity for addressing and making sense of today’s business complexity.
• Coach the team over time rather than facilitating a one-off development workshop to help build a sustained change in behavior and performance.
• Help the team build psychological safety to support diversity and inclusion.

The CKI Coach in Residence™ program for senior leadership teams is typically a 12 to 18-month term. To schedule a consultation, please inquire now.