{"id":3008,"date":"2023-03-21T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2023-03-21T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:03:52","slug":"empower-your-senior-leadership-team-to-lead-as-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/empower-your-senior-leadership-team-to-lead-as-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Empower Your Senior Leadership Team to Lead as a Team."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve coached executives from high-potential middle managers through the entire senior leadership team, one of the biggest challenges I&#8217;ve encountered is helping the CEO truly empower their team to lead. Many organizations support their CEOs and COOs with executive coaching to become better leaders: to develop their decision-making, self-awareness, and ability to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>Once these skills are honed, it&#8217;s crucially important for that leader to know how to step back and really assess their team as a unit. The CEO must be able to determine how the team functions. Here are some questions to get you started in your assessment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the team you lead in fact a team at all, or are they heads of individual silos?<\/li>\n<li>Does the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) know how to have constructive dialogue and disagreement rather than &#8220;after the meeting meetings&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Does the CEO have the patience to be quiet so the team can wrestle, deliberate, and problem-solve?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, my job in systemic team coaching is to work with the leader in this stage of their development to come alongside the team and partner with the team rather than &#8220;run&#8221; the team and its meetings. Most of the time, I hear from seasoned leaders that their SLTs still operate in silos and the effects ripple throughout the organization, affecting employee engagement and customer service.<\/p>\n<p>So how is your senior team functioning? Do they act as a unit? Would their stakeholders say they do? If not, what will your first step be to empower this shift and truly be a team?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ascendconsulting.net\/experience-counts\/\">Marjorie R. Johnson, LCSW, PCC, is a Certified Practitioner in Team Coaching (Global Team Coaching Institute) and an executive coach.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve coached executives from high-potential middle managers through the entire senior leadership team, one of the biggest challenges I&#8217;ve encountered is helping the CEO truly empower their team to lead. Many organizations support their CEOs and COOs with executive coaching to become better leaders: to develop their decision-making, self-awareness, and ability to communicate. 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