Leadership & Team Dynamics

LTD-1:  Mobilizing the Team for Leading Edge Innovation and Change

Understanding the nature and types of teams is prerequisite to mobilizing innovation and change. We discuss the internal and external environments in which the team evolves its mission and examine the mobilization processes and elements that ignite innovation and change.  We also explore cohesion as facilitator of the team’s evolutionary unfolding and further examine the team as an evolutionary guidance work group.

LTD-2:  Guiding the Leadership Process to Effective Outcomes

Teams are intensely dynamic work groups that transform strategies through the execution of several defining processes.  We learn how the team’s dynamics often limit corporate success and examine improved methods for building intergroup  relations by applying theories of group dynamics to the team process.  We focus on: (1) governing the team’s dynamics; (2) controlling the effects of positive and negative variables; (3) balancing the individual and the Team, and (4) overcoming the Group-Think Tragedy.

LTD-3:  Climbing the Mountain to Effective Team Leadership 

Modern management teams are overwhelmed with information about Leadership.  Overcoming the leadership glut, we identify styles of team leadership, assess the personal qualities of effective team leaders, and master the collective behavior of Managers who aspire to be leaders.  We also examine the role of leadership in change and clarify the central skills of effective team leaders as they mastering the art of politically working with co-leaders.

LTD-4:  Infusing the Team’s Life-Cycle with Personal Wisdom     

Many things in human experience can be characterized by the life-cycle metaphor flowing from youth to maturity and on to old age.  We examine the team’s life-cycle and examine how to design a team to achieve ultimate levels of performance.  We also examine team turnover as an issue of life-cycle maintenance and the challenge of transitioning the team through visioning and mission building while exploring the paradoxical wisdom of productivity strategies.

LTD-5:  Escaping Your Dreams by Establishing a Leadership Vision

Understanding that a mission requires a vision, we identify the impacts of vision on the management experience, explore the “Brave New World” of the Leadership visioning process and finalize a personal vision for the team.  We assess both the business rationale compelling the vision and the expanded Leadership rationale forming the vision.  We also assess inter-team responsibilities and the impact of the vision on corporate management.

LTD-6:  Seizing the Anomaly Within to Leapfrog the Competitor Without

Mining the anomaly of strategy within, we identify the motivations of various Leadership teams and design relevant success strategies.  We define expectations among teams and between individuals, the “Both Ways” approach, identify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of each team, and define the Critical Failure Factors (CFFs) which prevent success.

LTD-7:  Thinking Big in the 21st Century as an Evolutionary Leader 

Using a theoretical perspective to understand the evolutionary dimensions of teams and what they do, we explore the Evolutionary Guidance Systems (EGS) concept and design the team as an EGS.  We also explore the psychology of ultimate behavior and integrate the concept of ultimate team work with team competence.

LTD-8:  Capturing the Really Big Chance through Agency Theory 

Agency Theory explains why teams suffer conflicting expectations.  Simply stated: Every team member brings a different agenda of embedded motivations and goals to the team.  This makes consensus short-lived.   Leveraging Agency Theory as a problem solving model, we examine the management of conflicting expectations, assess the embedded motivations of team members and their hired managers, and put the team on a business basis while protecting each team member’s right to succeed.

LTD-9:   Cleaning Out the Attic by Moving Beyond Old Strategic Thinking 

Updating the Leader’s vision, we examine strategy and strategic thinking for today’s business climate.  We assess the business environment, move from the old 7-S Competitive Model to the more dynamic model of the 21st Century, evaluate the Leader’s role in strategy building, and visualize a backup strategy “Just-in-Case.”