Call to action
Your executive team needs to collaborate more than ever before. In fact, every team needs to collaborate more than ever before. Recent studies revealed that, also on a global level, the time spent by executives and their teams in collaborative practices has grown by 50%.
On a global level, collaboration is taking over the workplace. As business becomes increasingly cross-functional, executive teamwork is the key to success: breaking down silos and increasing connectivity. And it all starts with you, your board of directors or your management team.
How cohesive is your executive team?
Are you at the beginning, on your way or in the middle of becoming a cohesive team and establishing successful teamwork? Do you actually know what it takes to become a successful team? Is it the team with the highest collective IQ, the one with the most diversity, or the one with the most “high potential” executives?
As I said, this is a call to action. Only if it is time for you to take action concerning your executive team should you read the rest of this article. If not, stop here!
Strengths & challenges | DiSC Work of Leaders
Most probably you are part of a group of professional executives that was never challenged to become a cohesive team. For this reason, the only way to become a cohesive team is through an in-depth, personal one-on-one approach. Before your group can transform into a team, it is necessary to know both the individual and group leadership strengths and challenges, as well as each person’s preferred behavior and the group culture.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team®
Now, and only after a zero measurement of the group, the group is ready to learn about the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. The Five Behaviors help leaders discover how to build a truly cohesive and effective executive team that:
- Establishes trust between team members
- Engages in conflict around ideas
- Commits to decisions
- Holds team members accountable
- Focuses on achieving collective results
- Is an example for all teams in the company
Executive Coaching Nederland
ECN is a subsidiary of Coaching Nederland, active since 1993 and now the most versatile expert in the Netherlands in coaching employees, managers and teams.
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