Top Team Effectiveness

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Top teams by default, are the most important teams in the organization because decision and strategy-making tend to cascade from the top, and they are more exposed to wider external environments as part of their responsibilities. Unfortunately, high-performance top teams are exceptionally rare.

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The key difference between average teams and exceptional teams lies in aspects of trust, ability to debate issues, commitment, accountability and clarity of goals. Great teams also have good structure, pay great attention to results and have suitable supporting processes.

Top Teams often encounter

problems unique to them

Benefits Of Top Teams Development Interventions

Linkage was experienced in designing a range of top team effectiveness solutions, from short-term interventions such as board retreats to longer-term engagements such as a full-fledged 2-year program that may involve active observation and participation in senior management meetings. Linkage consultants have profound experiences and the expertise to facilitate high-level discussions with senior leaders on key strategic issues that impact their organizations.

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We understand that team development is a journey and any positive change within the top team will have a significant impact on the whole organization. With our in-depth expertise in leadership development and team effectiveness, we are committed to working with your senior leadership team to maximize individual performance and team effectiveness.

Top Team Effectiveness solutions

Serve our clients with Six objectives

Every team is unique and its state also changes over time. Prior to designing a Top Team Effectiveness program, we conduct a number of Team Diagnostic activities in order to gain understanding of the top team, their team dynamics and key issues they currently face, as well as surface developmental needs of individual team members.

Linkage's approach in designing on impactful Top Team effectiveness Program consists of 3 interventions:

Depending on the team situation and context, Linkage employs a range of frameworks to help top teams increase their level of team effectiveness. We strive to be on the cutting edge of leadership ideas and research, and find the best solutions to fit our clients’ needs.

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Beside our Linkage’s Team Effectiveness Assessment™ (TEA), we also have an expanded repertoire of frameworks and tools from which to draw on, and multiple “linkages” to other thought leaders and experts. Some examples of Team Effectiveness frameworks we have used include Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of Teams, Dave Logan’s Tribal Leadership, Saj-nicole Joni’s Geography of Trust, and the Myers-Briggs Team Type Analysis.

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For an impactful Top Team Effectiveness program, we recommend the top team to conduct a Team Assessment during the Team Diagnostics phase and at the end of the whole program. The results of the assessment provide the team with a platform to identify and discuss issues around the team’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as areas where team members have significantly differing perspectives.