Executive Development
We start with the strategic drivers for your organisation and work back from there to capability, structure, leadership and culture.
Develop your Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team
Personalised programmes to suit the level of your executive and leadership team.
Why?
What we believe
Too often top teams are selected for individual strengths rather than thinking through what complimentary skill-sets a CEO requires to get the job done.
A collection of rock stars will not deliver the performance that can be gained by selecting a diverse and complementary team and ensuring effective collaboration.
Great teams manage conflict actively and constructively and work together so the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Senior teams are more effective when they take time to reflect on and improve team process and dynamics. Many teams find themselves held hostage to a schedule of presentations which take up much of their time together, with insufficient time alone to grapple with the real elephants in the room.
Real top team development does not occur in an artificial setting. While team “off-sites” or structured development interventions (e.g. psychometrics, team effectiveness workshops) can have a part to play, real team development must occur while the team conducts its real business of setting strategy and leading the business.
When do organisations seek our help?
When a top team is forming or a new CEO is appointed.
When an established team is looking to regenerate and take the organisation to the next level.
When significant transformation leads to the change in composition of the top team (e.g. merger, demerger, acquisition).
After a major business review which has significantly changed the business model or performance expectations in a way that will challenge existing culture and ways of working.
How we work
Divergent & Co specialises in building top team performance by supporting CEO's in the selection decisions they need to make (see Executive Assessment) and then accelerating the development of a high performing team.
To really understand the issues in a senior team and link development to achieving organisational objectives, it is necessary to observe them working together and grappling with the real issues.
We link the development of individual executives with building better team performance. In turn we focus team performance interventions on delivering organisational objectives.