Working together
I help your team align on both what you will do and how you will do it
Your Leadership team makes hard decisions on what you will do. You grapple with financial targets, product refinement, and critical personnel issues.
Are you also explicit about the how - what are the desired actions and behaviors to make decisions and then act on them?
Together, we align your team on how to achieve goals. We are transparent about the expectations for each leader to communicate, behave, and contribute to achieving your goals.
Aligning Leadership Teams
When your team makes a decision, does everyone embrace the outcome? Are next steps clear? What is left unsaid?
Your Leadership team is dynamic, bringing together individuals with unique talents, to respond to your constantly changing environment. Together, we reveal how you operate, address unspoken friction, and create pathways to align.
Aligned Decision-making
Together we consider how your team communicates - in meetings, email, and other informal communication. We explore how you make decisions and act on them. Clients appreciate that our work together is not theoretical or “canned”. We focus on your current, most pressing issues, creating actionable outcomes.
Strategic Retreats
Strategic Retreats jumpstart alignment. We focus on a critical challenge that doesn’t have obvious answers. You listen to each other and build trust to create a consensus decision and action plan. Without the day-to-day distractions, your team gains insight faster, can experiment with new ways to communicate, and aligns. Teams describe Strategic Retreats as transformative.
“Denys asks probing questions, which always lead to authentic, meaningful insights.”
Coaching C-suite Executives
“Denys listens and dives in deep to understand what you are trying to resolve. Her supportive candid style engages you.”
I give you the quiet space, away from the demands of your day, to explore your critical strategic business and personnel issues. We consider potential options, test approaches, and observe your impact on aligning your team to drive your vision. I may give you feedback that challenges your perspective. Even so, CEO’s look forward to our work together, describing it as focused, and highly productive.
You have ultimate responsibility for every decision and outcome. Does your team know how you make decisions and what you need from them?
Developing and Empowering Leaders
“Denys’ approach helps me think about alternate ways to problem-solve. Her calm, easy-going style invites a non-threatening interaction. I feel at ease discussing organizational issues that I am less comfortable discussing with others.”
How connected are you to the Leader’s vision? What are the team’s unspoken rules? How do your colleagues see you? Are you being heard?
Working 1:1, we explore who you are as a leader today and the leader you seek to become. I help you see yourself as your colleagues do. What are your unique “superpowers” that others value? What skills and behaviors would enhance your leadership?
We then explore the dynamics of your team and how you can contribute confidently, communicate effectively, and take ownership of your part of the action plan.