Judge when to escalate cohesive executive teams and when to absorb it.
Building Cohesive Executive Teams at Senior Management Level
Build a working method for cohesive executive teams that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Authority is granted by the organisation; credibility in cohesive executive teams is earned separately. When this aspect of organisational leadership is unclear, people default to protecting their own function. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on the organisational leadership discipline and revise it on evidence. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place cohesive executive teams among the areas with the widest performance spread. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in this area of organisational leadership rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Participants who influence the wider organisational leadership agenda without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Plans for cohesive executive teams often fail at the handover point between functions. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this strand of organisational leadership and the judgement to adapt it. The programme closes with an action plan for the organisational leadership capability that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish escalation routes for cohesive executive teams that work outside normal hours.
Design a practical operating method for cohesive executive teams that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Develop successors capable of running cohesive executive teams without you.
Align the incentives of different functions so cohesive executive teams is not quietly sabotaged.
Assess the current state of cohesive executive teams against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
Manage the emotional load cohesive executive teams places on you and on the team.
Who Should Attend
Human resources partners advising leaders on cohesive executive teams.
Founders and owner-managers formalising cohesive executive teams as the organisation grows.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of cohesive executive teams directly.
Newly promoted managers taking on cohesive executive teams for the first time.
Executives leading multi-function programmes involving cohesive executive teams.
Business partners who must understand cohesive executive teams well enough to challenge it.
Course Modules
Cohesive executive teams: conflict, politics and informal power
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making cohesive executive teams work when resources are constrained
- Rank the weaknesses in cohesive executive teams by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Decide the point at which you would escalate cohesive executive teams.
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on cohesive executive teams went unnoticed.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for cohesive executive teams.
Session 2Moving cohesive executive teams through people who do not report to you
- Define acceptance criteria for cohesive executive teams in advance.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around cohesive executive teams are understood.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for cohesive executive teams.
- Name a single owner for each element of cohesive executive teams.
Cohesive executive teams: performance, standards and consistency
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Deciding on cohesive executive teams when the information will never be complete
- Identify the data already collected that bears on cohesive executive teams.
- Test whether the team can explain cohesive executive teams in their own words.
- Reduce the variation in how cohesive executive teams is carried out between teams.
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on cohesive executive teams.
Session 2Who answers for cohesive executive teams, and to whom
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines cohesive executive teams.
- Review a past decision on cohesive executive teams and state honestly what you would change.
- Set the decision rights on cohesive executive teams: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
- Compare the cost of cohesive executive teams with the cost of its absence.
Cohesive executive teams: setting direction people can act on
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering after a visible mistake on cohesive executive teams
- Identify the conversation about cohesive executive teams you have been postponing, and schedule it.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in cohesive executive teams.
- Map the handovers in cohesive executive teams between functions and secure them.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to cohesive executive teams.
Session 2Reading the room before proposing cohesive executive teams
- Decide what you will delegate on cohesive executive teams and what you will not, and say why.
- Prepare the summary of cohesive executive teams that senior management will read.
- Confirm that the people affected by cohesive executive teams heard it from you first.
- Anticipate the objections cohesive executive teams will raise and prepare the answers.
Cohesive executive teams: influence across functions you do not control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Escalation and decision rights in cohesive executive teams
- Name the person accountable for each part of cohesive executive teams, not the committee.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of cohesive executive teams before proposing changes.
- Assess the workload cohesive executive teams adds and what you will remove to make room.
- Agree the standard on cohesive executive teams and confirm it applies to everyone.
Session 2What your team concludes from how you handle cohesive executive teams
- State the outcome expected from cohesive executive teams in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
- Build the internal briefing that explains cohesive executive teams to those affected.
- Identify which function can quietly block cohesive executive teams and address it directly.
- Establish the boundary of cohesive executive teams and record what sits outside it.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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