Create Team Clarity to Take Performance to the Next Level

“Having tripled in size and recently merged, LSA helped us to create team clarity on our executive team to increase our level of strategic alignment, solidify our new direction, and push our agency forward with clear goals, roles, and success metrics.

As we look to rapidly scale, the clear and actionable critical few strategic moves combined with how we differentiate ourselves to our top accounts and target clients have really set us on a great path to success.

This is exactly what we needed to take our leadership team to the next level.”

Matt Britton | CEO | MRY, a Publicis Groupe Company

“LSA Global rocks! Thank you for helping our executives to create team clarity. Our executive team now has a clear and powerful strategic direction with clear metrics of success, accountabilities, and actions going forward.

From a sales growth perspective, I am really energized about the outcome and grateful for what I have learned throughout the process.”

Stacey Wong | Director of Sales | Servicon Systems

Create Team Clarity
We define a team as a collection of people all working toward a common goal. Overall, teams outperform individuals when success requires a combination of multiple skills, judgments, and experiences. Examples of high performing teams abound in sports, military special forces, and elite institutions.

Teams Are Different than Working Groups
Working Groups typically have no collective work product beyond their individual accomplishments Examples include golf and gymnastic teams. To create team clarity, it is important to know teams are different than Working Groups and that Working Groups are different than Tribes.

Teams Are Different than Tribes
A Tribe is a collection of people who know why they are together, are passionate about each other, and bleed for a unified common cause and trust each other implicitly. A good example of a tribe is a family. If you want to create team clarity, it is important to know the difference between a team and a Tribe.

In general, you know that you are part of a team if the majority of your success is dependent upon the success of others.

Creating a high performance team starts with team leaders creating shared clarity, agreement, and commitment in the following areas:

Alignment
For a team to excel, it must fully align itself with the vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities of the organization. Ensure the team understands the corporate strategy enough to align with it.
Shared Goals
Clear goals are the hallmark of high performing teams. Ensure the fundamental purpose and goals of the team are clear, believable, implementable, and committed to by all key stakeholders.
Clear Roles & Responsibilities
High performing teams have a clear grasp of how each individual contributes to team success and what to expect from others. Ensure roles and responsibilities play to people’s strengths and desires while being clear, understood, and committed to by all team members.
Credible Success Metrics
For teams and individuals to thrive, they must know where they stand and hold each other accountable. Ensure individual and team performance measures are aligned, relevant, fair, accurate, transparent, consistent, timely and just possible.
Critical Processes and Practices
The way teams prioritize, solve problems, reward, communicate, make decisions, share information, innovate, and handle conflict directly impacts their level of performance. Ensure critical processes are understood, accepted and aligned with where you are headed.
Effective Interpersonal Relationships
High performing teams interact with each other in a healthy and supportive way. Build trust, openness, and acceptance to improve team dynamics and effectiveness.
Barriers to Success
Every team faces challenges. High performing teams identify barriers within their circle of influence and create solid action plans to overcome them in a way that makes sense.

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The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational. The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed. Thank you!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

Working on our HR Strategy was so eye opening. I feel so much better prepared to be successful as a leader individually and collectively.

Now the entire HR leadership team can drive our growth strategy forward in a way that makes sense.

Kristin Talastas
Director, HR Shared Services

LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation. They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing. I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance. They are lights out awesome!

Patrick Resk
Chief Financial Officer, Partner

Thank you so much for being the right person with the right experience and expertise to lead our Executive Team in re-examining our approach to change leadership.

I’m grateful for how you engaged and challenged us with so many “holy crap!” insights and realizations that we needed.

Jeff Nally
Chief Coaching Officer & CHRO

The customized leadership program was very practical and achieved our goals. LSA adapted very well to our group and the situation and helped us build trust and awareness of successful leadership styles. We look forward to the next steps.

Erik Okholm
Director of Software Development

We selected LSA Global over 5 other companies to help our key executives improve their overall communication and executive presentation capabilities. LSA exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

Todd Power
Office of the CEO

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a action leadership and management development curriculum to help drive performance across the company.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our unique culture, and delivering first class solutions. Thank you!

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

LSA has been a tremendous asset at my current company and my past company.

As an HR leader, I am always looking for ways to find external resources that can provide impactful leadership and management development expertise. LSA consistently does that for me.

The tools and practices are crisp, business relevant, and easy to apply on the job.

Ken Boehm
VP of Human Resources

At the onset of our engagement with LSA, I was skeptical that an outside firm would be able to understand and dissect our organization’s highly complex and technical business challenges.

However, through the leadership team interview and strategy retreat processes that LSA utilized, they provided a fresh, innovative, and practical perspective that created tremendous strategic value and focus for our executive leadership team.

As a result, I would highly recommend LSA Global to any leader struggling with building the strategic alignment and high performance teams necessary to generate sales growth, in a way that fits their unique corporate culture.

Robert Laudati
Managing Director

LSA’s approach has certainly brought value to Knight Ridder Digital. They were laser focused on our goal and determined to meet all of our Leadership development program needs. Their flexibility and commitment were keys in making our program successful.

Dipik Rai
Director of Marketing

After a difficult search to find a partner that could address a very specific leadership development need, we chose LSA Global. They were responsive to our needs and created a highly customized solution that we continue to see results from. It is nice to know we have access to their expertise with a simple phone call.

Valerie Blackburn
Director of Business Operations

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant. The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

Your team was amazing. Facilitative Leadership was one of the best leadership and change workshops my team has ever attended. Thank you!

Diane White
Executive Director, Head of Product Development

LSA helped us design and deliver blended leadership solutions for our key leaders to help drive our growth plans in a way that aligned with our unique culture and values.

LSA understood our business, had deep expertise in the content areas, customized the leadership development programs to fit our specific needs, and delivered great results in alignment with our strategic priorities, culture, and performance management systems.

I highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their leaders and the performance of their teams to the next level.

Beth A. Taylor
Vice President of Human Resources

LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly customized, focused, and relevant management training program that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

Mitch Mandich
CEO