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Industry: Manufacturing

Challenge: Run effective high-level meetings

Relevant facts

  • Senior operating executive is well respected within the firm.
  • Leads several project-based teams.
  • Works effectively with individuals one-on-one.
  • Feels overwhelmed by conflicts during team meetings.
  • Dissatisfied with follow-through of team members.

What We Did

  • Taught tools and techniques for managing group dynamics.
  • Co-facilitated team meetings to demonstrate new skills.
  • Provided specific feedback about ways the executive behaved differently in team vs. individual meetings.
  • Developed process for managing team member performance.

Results

  • Executive learned to facilitate meetings, not control them.
  • Reframed conflict as a natural by-product of work, not something to be avoided.
  • Performance management process improved follow-through of team members.

Executive gained confidence in critical thinking, decisiveness, clarity of communication, integrity of word and act, consistency.