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Executive teams facilitated across industries
Focused on strengthening the relationships and operating behaviors leadership teams need to achieve operational excellence and stronger business results.
Turn capable leaders into a team that delivers together.
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
de Lisser Leadership Consulting (dLC) helps executive and leadership teams increase self-awareness and strengthen trust, candor, collaboration, commitment and accountability—so they can align around what matters and achieve stronger collective results.
Customized to Priorities
Built around the team’s real business priorities
Greater Self-Awareness
Helps individuals and teams understand their impact, strengths and vulnerabilities
Applied for Results
Turns insight into stronger relationships, commitments and results
MORE THAN TEAM BUILDING
Build the trust, alignment and accountability your leadership team needs to deliver stronger business results.
A room full of talented leaders does not automatically become an effective leadership team.
Performance improves when team members understand themselves and one another, build trust, engage in productive disagreement, commit to decisions, hold one another accountable and stay focused on shared results.
We help teams strengthen those behaviors through the actual priorities, relationships and decisions affecting the business—not activities disconnected from the work.
WHEN OUR TEAM EFFECTIVENESS WORK CAN HELP
01 · Collaboration is slowing execution
Strengthen how leaders work across roles and functions so shared priorities move forward without unnecessary friction or delay.
04 · Strong individuals are not operating as one team
Shift attention from protecting individual areas to solving enterprise-wide challenges and delivering shared outcomes.
02 · Important issues are not being discussed candidly
Create the trust and discipline needed to surface concerns, challenge ideas constructively and address tension before it undermines results.
05 · Relationships are affecting performance
Identify the patterns eroding trust, repair critical working relationships and establish more effective ways of interacting.
03 · Decisions are unclear or repeatedly revisited
Improve how the team evaluates choices, reaches clear decisions and confirms commitments so people can move forward and follow through together.
06 · Change requires stronger leadership alignment
Help the team align on the direction, communicate consistently and lead the people side of change with greater clarity and confidence.
HOW WE STRENGTHEN THE TEAM
Turn greater self-awareness into stronger relationships and team performance.
01 · Clarify the outcomes that matter
Define what the team must accomplish together and the leadership behaviors most likely to help—or hinder—those results.
02 · Build individual and team self-awareness
Help team members understand their own impact and recognize the team’s differences, collective strengths, vulnerabilities and recurring patterns.
03 · Strengthen trust and productive dialogue
Use greater understanding to improve relationships, surface concerns and challenge ideas constructively without damaging trust.
04 · Turn decisions into shared commitment
Establish clear agreements for communication, decision-making and peer accountability so commitments are understood and supported across the team.
05 · Reinforce performance and collective results
Connect new behaviors to current priorities, monitor progress and keep the team focused on delivering outcomes together.
BUILT AROUND THE TEAM'S NEEDS
Focused interventions—not a predetermined event.
Executive team facilitation
Focused sessions that help senior teams resolve barriers, improve decisions and align around shared priorities.
Self-awareness and working styles
Individual insight and team discussion help people understand differences, improve relationships, adapt communication and use the team’s collective strengths more effectively.
Team assessment and reset
A clear view of how the team is performing—from trust and productive conflict through commitment, accountability and shared results—followed by practical agreements that improve performance.
Leadership alignment during change
Shared direction, consistent messages and coordinated leadership of the human side of transformation, growth or integration.
Cross-functional collaboration
Stronger relationships, handoffs and shared accountability across functions whose success depends on one another.
Ongoing team development
Targeted follow-up, coaching and accountability that help new behaviors take hold beyond the initial session.
SENIOR EXPERIENCE. PERSONAL ATTENTION.
The facilitators in the room understand both people and the business.
Michael and Joy de Lisser personally design and facilitate the work. Their combined leadership, coaching, communication, organizational-development and operating experience helps teams address relationship dynamics without losing sight of execution and results.
The goal is not temporary harmony. It is a leadership team better equipped to make decisions, work through differences and deliver on the organization’s priorities.