Strengthening collective
leadership.
Leadership stories
A successful second-generation family-owned enterprise was entering its next chapter of growth and evolution.
The Managing Director led a senior leadership team of experienced, non-family executives responsible for different parts of the organisation.
Each leader was highly capable within their own function and respected across the business.
Nobody was doing anything wrong.
The team had simply grown up function by function. As the business evolved, it became clear they needed to think and lead more collectively.
Depending on who you talked to, people experienced six excellent leaders rather than one leadership team.
They didn’t want another consultant with a deck of models and a prescribed process, so we designed the work around what was actually happening in their team. They soon started to realise what they weren’t talking about. They began having conversations they'd been avoiding, built trust, and became much more invested in the success of the entire organisation. The question became less “what does my part of the business need?” and more “what does the business need from us?”.
Building a leadership team takes more than bringing talented people together. It takes trust, curiosity, and a willingness to put the success of the whole ahead of your own part of the business.
Stronger collective leadership
They looked beyond their own functions and took greater responsibility for the success of the whole organisation.
Greater trust and understanding
They came to understand each other’s pressures, priorities and perspectives in a way they hadn’t before.
More of the right conversations
They made more time to work through the issues and decisions that mattered across the business, not just within their own areas.
Leading the next chapter together
The organisation increasingly experienced them as one leadership team, with greater clarity about where the business was going.