Team Effectiveness
Executive Team Effectiveness
High-performing executive teams are the most powerful lever a CEO can pull to drive performance. We help you build high-performing executive teams that thrive in complex business environments.
An executive team is the vehicle that closes the gap between strategy and execution.
We help teams to optimize prioritization, clarify decision making and build collaboration and trust.
Download our Executive Team Effectiveness Guide
Video Overview
Take a few minutes to watch these two videos from Orla Leonard, Senior Partner and Head of Team Effectiveness at RHR, as she discusses our programs and the true power of teams.
Our Model
Goals (What)
Strategy
Shared agenda
Design/membership
Alignment on goals
Roles and responsibilities
Process (How)
Processes
Team cadence and norms
Feedback
Resilience
Dynamics (Who)
Personality styles
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Team Culture and climate
Psychological safety
Purpose (Why)
Purpose
Beliefs and values
Interface with customers, employees, and community
Philosophical heartbeat
Who Is The Program Designed For?
Our Executive Team Effectiveness program is a high-touch engagement, designed for the CEO and C-suite teams, to align and shift executive team behaviors as they face complex challenges that are unique to enterprise teams.
The program is ideal for:
- C-suite teams wanting to drive stronger alignment and collaboration
- C suite teams leaning into organizational change, growth or fundamental business change
- C-Suite teams that have recently gone through an acquisition
- C-Suite teams looking to build a longer time horizon (three- to five-year future planning)
Key Outcomes
- A baseline assessment of the team against a benchmark of high-performing teams
- Accelerated alignment across the team on how to drive business performance
- Increased collaboration and trust across the team
- Mobilization of performance deeper in the organization
- Increased ability of the leader to lead a high-performing team
Our Approach
Each team is unique and operates within a specific business context. Our process attends to the expectations of delivery and external factors that influence the success of the team.
Our approach focuses on total performance— challenging teams to be the best they can be on four dimensions: What, How, Who, Why.
We have an extensive database of top-team data, allowing for external benchmarking of your team on all the critical components of executive team effectiveness (design, focus, decision-making, getting results, dynamics).
We leverage this data
to provide thought leadership on what makes the difference between low- and high-performing teams and how teams can go from good to great.
Executive team effectiveness cannot be accomplished in one offsite. Our approach combines short, structured, regular touchpoints that enable meaningful change and embed team accountability.
Our approach is a blend of virtual and in-person work, enabling global reach with maximum impact.
What Clients Say About Us
Based on feedback from +830 executives from 92 organizations in the last 18 months
100% RHR is committed to delivering its best work for my organization
98% Satisfaction for the services the client received
96% RHR consultants demonstrated insight and empathy in navigating the interpersonal dynamics within the team
94% Partnering with RHR has inspired my organization to make changes needed
for success
Our Team
Our specialist team work with some of the world’s most ambitious companies across the globe. From Fortune 500 companies to silicon valley start-ups, with ambitious value creation goals. Below are some of our key players.
Orla Leonard, MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Senior Partner, Head of Teams
Nick Twyman, BSc (Hons)
Partner
Maja Egnell, MSc
Associate
Liza Jager
Partner
Daniel Lebreton
Partner
Vanessa Ruda, PhD
Senior Partner, Region Lead—U.S. Central
Let’s Talk
If you’re looking to improve team effectiveness, we can help. Get in touch with David, so he can better understand your needs and talk about the tailored solutions we can provide.
David Morgenbesser
Head of Sales, Team Effectiveness
dmorgenbesser@rhrinternational.com
+1 954 729 1140
Characteristics of high performing teams
Most discussions about executive team effectiveness focus on the ideal mix of personal characteristics or stages of team development that need to be accomplished before the team can be classified as high performing.
We conducted an analysis of over 200 senior teams, predominantly from companies with annual revenues of over $2 billion, to establish what really needs to happen, in order to create high performing teams.
Our Methodology
We compared and contrasted high-performing and low-performing executive teams, analyzing what they did, how often they did it, and which indicators of organizational performance were impacted as a result.
Key Insights
In our research, the following six success factors were found to differentiate
high-performing teams (HPTs) from low-performing teams (LPTs):
Six Key High Performance Factors
1. Agile Design – HPTs align their membership design to the goals of the organization.
2. Disciplined Focus – HPTs focus on the most critical priorities and deal with the right
issues at the right level.
3. Efficient-Decision Making – HPTs balance the need for speed and quality and are clear on what decisions should be delegated.
4. Connectivity and Balance – HPTs are connected with the internal and external needs of the organization. They leverage organizational strengths while also driving innovation.
5. Collaborative Culture – HPTs pay less attention to hierarchy and are willing to lean into conflict.
6. Delivery of Results – HPTs are those who ultimately deliver results.
What are the key tensions?
We examined what differentiated the top 25% of the high-performing teams from the rest. We found that the highest-performing senior teams were able to skillfully navigate three key tensions: 1. Risk versus Reward – High-performing teams excel at taking risks that pay off in the long term while also delivering results that reward in the short term. 2. External versus Internal – High-performing teams look outward as well as inward, even using external drivers as a springboard for internal transformation. 3. Top-Down versus Bottom-Up – High-performing teams successfully manage the tension between driving innovation from the top and creating frameworks to enable those closest to the customer to innovate. The Results 10% – Greater market share achieved by the top 25% of performing teams, who delivered a 10.6% greater sales and revenue growth, and a 9.5% – Improvement in employee engagement!
Let’s Talk
If you’re looking to improve team effectiveness, we can help. Get in touch with David, so he can better understand your needs and talk about the tailored solutions we can provide.
David Morgenbesser
Head of Sales, Team Effectiveness
dmorgenbesser@rhrinternational.com
+1 954 729 1140