Team and management team development
A management team is more than the individual leaders sitting around the table. For the group to create real value, it has to function as a team with a shared direction, mutual trust and the ability to make good decisions together. Habberstad helps management teams develop exactly that, through methodically grounded processes tailored to your organisation.
Management team development
What is the management team’s purpose and added value? Does the management team create greater value for the organisation than the sum of each individual leader? We help your organisation optimise the management team’s value creation and become a well-functioning management team.
A well-functioning management team is essential to getting an organisation to work together towards shared goals. The management team’s joint commitment to the goals, and the recognition that they are mutually dependent on one another to succeed, is the very foundation for building a leadership team. Established patterns of behaviour within the group can, however, be an obstacle to succeeding with constructive decision-making processes and innovative solutions.
We help to address and challenge these patterns of behaviour, while at the same time helping the management team strengthen team spirit, communication and psychological safety within the team.
In a complex world marked by uncertainty, leadership’s ability to collaborate, focus on the right issues and make the best possible decisions under uncertainty is decisive for the organisation’s results. The more people who share information and their perspectives, the better the quality of the decision.
Achieving the strategic goals should be the overarching purpose of management team development. The path there runs through collaboration, mutual trust and respect. This brings purposeful strategic work, cross-disciplinary collaboration and management team development together into a holistic process.
Methodically, Habberstad bases its management team development on recognised theory and research on the development of effective leadership teams, including work by Patrick Lencioni, Henning Bang and Thomas N. Midelfart.
We help your organisation optimise the management team's value creation
Team development and teaming
We help create good start-up processes for your team that get you off the mark quickly and on the right footing. We build on well-established methods and tailor them to your organisation. This might be based on an assessment tool and team tool, Start Smart, Gameplan or another form of good teaming process. It can also be part of a management team development process.
Leadership development
We tailor business-focused processes or programmes to strengthen a shared leadership culture and develop individual leaders. We design development programmes for your organisation’s leaders at every level. All leaders are central role models in building a strong organisational culture. The cornerstone is trust and psychological safety, which must be built in each department and in every team. Once a fundamental sense of safety and well-being is in place, leadership can jointly build a culture that promotes learning, development and engagement.
Together we agree on the desired cultural elements and leadership principles. A culture of good leadership is built brick by brick, and must be maintained every day. We create programmes that foster a safe and supportive collegial community among leaders, which increases the likelihood that the organisation succeeds with continuous leadership development, and thereby achieves a lasting effect from the leadership development programme. We work with your organisation whether you want to build an ongoing leadership programme, or have a shorter programme in mind that gives your leaders growth right now. We bring relevant everyday challenges from your organisation into the programmes so they feel entirely relevant to all participants.
Talks
We can also be brought in, for example to a leadership gathering at your organisation, to give an inspirational talk on various topical leadership themes. This could be Diversity and inclusion, Crisis management, Cross-functional collaboration, Leading high-performing teams, or something else.
Leadership training and workshops
We set up courses/workshops to train specific general leadership tools. All leaders should give themselves and their people the chance to regularly practise giving constructive feedback, conducting difficult conversations, building psychological safety within the team, leading people through a change process or taking a coaching approach with employees, to name a few. We can set up workshops/half-day or full-day training at your organisation, and we will also set up some open courses you can sign up for to train alongside leaders from other organisations.
Register your interest in one or more of the topics here, and we will set up training once we have the right number of participants:
Training in giving feedback
Training in the challenging conversation
Training in a coaching leadership style
Training in creating trust and psychological safety
Training in leading people through change
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We help you find the right leader or develop the one you already have. Do get in touch for an informal conversation about what we can do for you.