Business Challenges:
- Unclear going-forward strategy
- New Leader with new Executive Team
- Inability of organization to execute against agreed-upon goals
Solutions:
- Project defined as Senior Team Alignment and complex change project
- Created a series of off-site Advances to:
- Clarify strategy
- Establish critical priorities
- Define team, critical roles and levels of interdependence
- Define “paradoxes” that must be managed by Leadership Team
- Continue to build Senior Team capability
- Close-In Executive Coaching to build leadership capabilities with President and members of Senior Team
- Team Alignment work with operational teams 1-2 levels down
Business Outcomes:
- Organizational, Plant, Functional, and Team Goals established
- Senior Team has solidified and operating collaboratively across the region and within overall enterprise
- Senior Team broke even against first year goals and has met or exceed subsequent years
- Loss of major Leader/Sponsor broke momentum, but Senior Team was able to keep on track
- Currently looking for acquisitional opportunities