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Executive team effectiveness
What sets high performing teams apart is that they have transitioned from a team of star executives to an executive star team. These top teams are shown to outperform their competitors by a wide margin on profitability, operational resilience, organisational health, and growth.
Our approach is grounded in the works of Patrick Lencioni (5 Dysfunctions of a Team) and Peter Hawkins (5 Disciplines of High Performing Teams) and revolves around a series of structured workshops as the foundation for the program. These vary dependent on the stage of the team development. We take a practical, bespoke approach, addressing critical issues uncovered in the organisation’s needs analysis.
We explore the criticality of trust for effective team functioning including practices in how to both build trust and re-build it if damaged.
Learn the commonality of understanding, critical for achieving results and high-level team and organisational functioning and effectiveness.
Understand skill development for effective team decision making. Mastering this skill is critical to innovation, creativity and strategic commercial outcomes.
Development of a common language around and application of coaching as a key skill and cultural attribute for team members to work together.
We explore SMG's comprehensive process for developing refined capability in the giving and seeking of feedback.
We help team members build capacity to engage in critical conversations, essential for effective decision-making and a strong leadership team dynamic.
We provide learning that is relevant, appropriate, highly engaging and in line with their level of leadership. By taking into account how different levels of leadership interact within the context of the whole organisations, we help ensure leadership development has a lasting impact.
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Understand the current state at a granular level and define the aspirational future state.
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Solutions developed and validated, to achieve desired objectives.
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Resources deployed to implement solutions supported by systems and evolving design framework.
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We don’t deliver programs, we deliver impact on individuals, teams, organisations and communities.
Our coaches and mentors move fluidly between modalities as determined by client needs. This, coupled with proven expertise in organisational behaviour and cultural change, positions us at the peak of strategic advisory and full-service leadership development.
The use of blended learning solutions and interventions (including 1:1 executive coaching, customised workshops and digital learning) reinforces key concepts to actively embed sustained behavioural change.
We take an agnostic approach to assessment tools and frameworks. Our Coaches and Mentors are skilled in determining the most appropriate tool for the team’s needs and identified objectives.
SMG maintains strong relationships with the business community in the APAC region to keep abreast of market developments and respond to the market’s changing needs. This is further reinforced by our strategic alliances that provide insights into global best practice in executive development.
25+ years of paving the way for executive coaching and leadership development in Australia. Our team of Executive Coaches, Mentors and Facilitators have worked with some of APAC’s largest and most complex organisations. We understand the needs of our clients and we deliver impactful outcomes.
SMG programs are evidence-based and are built on psychological theory, behavioural science and commercial and contextual experience. Our Executive Coaches and Mentors have lived-experience in working with teams in complex environments.
Our Executive Team Effectiveness Model equips senior leaders to thrive through Clarity, Cohesion, Connection, Courage, and Continuous Learning. It strengthens alignment, optimises collaboration, fosters psychological safety, nurtures growth, and empowers leadership teams to excel.
Clarity of direction, purpose, and accountabilities
Lack of clarity is one of the key inhibitors of high performance at the executive level. By helping the team establish clarity and alignment around vision, direction, purpose, and accountabilities, teams quickly establish heightened levels of trust leading to faster and more effective decision-making.
Cohesion in ways of working
Clarity is just the starting point. We help ensure executive teams reconfigure and optimise their operating cadence and help them align around a ‘plan on a page’ so that they can move as a cohesive unit in the implementation of their strategy.
Connection with the team and the enterprise
Like a lack of clarity, organisational silos create a powerful handbrake to executing at speed. We help executive teams achieve more through developing their ability for “perspective taking” within the team and across the enterprise.
Courage to interact in a psychologically safe environment
The most effective executive teams create an environment in which everyone feels safe to challenge entrenched beliefs and limiting assumptions. We bring our expertise of one-on-one executive coaching to help each executive grow individually, and as part of the team, to collectively establish a self-propelling team environment of safety and constructive challenge.
Continuous learning internally and externally
High performing Executive teams cannot afford to stand still in a time of change and disruption. We bring external insight to help teams look beyond the immediate horizon. We work with our clients to instil a culture of continuous learning so that they’re not just keeping pace with change but setting the pace.
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