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How I Work with Top Management Teams

I started working with top management teams around 2010 and one of the most important insights I gained is that versatility and courage as a team coach are key when coaching top management teams.

Let's face it: most leaders reach the C-Suite because they worked hard and have proven to be quite capable in their field of work. And quite often, they also have developed a healthy ego or, sometimes, an oversized one... So, when working with top management teams, I found that getting their buy-in as early as possible is essential for a productive session.

Typical team coaching programs include these elements:

  • Appropriate Team Coaching Assessments
  • 1:1 Interviews (ideally with every team member and definitely with the team leader)
  • Team Coaching Workshops (typically 2hrs up to 1day)
  • Follow-up Sessions
  • Optional: Shadowing of the team (observation of team meetings)

In order to get maximum openness and impact, I use various so-called team coaching tools, i.e. particular and innovative exercises that encourage team members  to speak up and make commitments that benefit the team. These commitments are then followed up a few weeks later.

Want to know more? Hit on the button below and get in touch. Or read any of the articles related to team coaching (scroll down).

Team Coaching Articles

"Top Management Teams: Overcoming the 'Silo' Mentality"

By Charlie Lang, CEO Coach (1:1/Teams)

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Lazy to read? Watch the related Youtube Video instead

Greta, the Asia CEO of a Europe based garment brand, contacted me because she had an intuition that her team was not performing as good as it could. It turned out that her intuition was correct.

“Honestly, the members of my team are a bunch of very competent managers and besides some occasional complaints, they get along quite OK. In fact, when they get together, they are usually quite friendly with each other.

And yet, I have the feeling that we are not really leveraging all this great knowledge and experience that we have

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"Using Team Coaching to Resolve Tensions in Your Unit and Boost Productivity"

By Charlie Lang, CEO Coach (1:1/Teams)

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Within weeks of starting her job as general manager with her new employer, Alice came to appreciate her team members’ high level of individual competence, and yet, something seemed not quite right.

For example, during her team meetings, she noticed that each of them focused strongly on making their area of responsibility look good and most of them would get defensive if any critique or suggestion for improvement came up. In fact, she felt that the lack of cohesiveness and team spirit posed a barrier to what the team could achieve

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"The End of Team Building?"


By Charlie Lang, CEO Coach (1:1/Teams)

The End of Team Building?

It's fun. It's (often) expensive. It tends to achieve something.

But is it worth it? Is it the best investment for what you want to or need to achieve?

Team building had developed over the past decades into a sizable industry. There tend to be typically two general types of team building: indoor and more adventure-oriented outdoor programs. The formats, contents and delivery vary from provider to provider and so does the quality of these programs.

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