Executive Team Alignment Session for a Services Firm

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized executive team alignment session for a services firm to improve strategic clarity, leadership decision making, and collaboration.

• 98% satisfaction
• 128% knowledge gain
• 96% net promoter score

Executive Team Alignment Session to Strengthen Strategic Execution

Even the most ambitious growth strategies fail when executive teams are not fully aligned. The results manifest as:

• Misaligned and shifting priorities.
• Fragmented communication.
• Inconsistent decision-making.
• Unclear accountability.

All four issues undermine strategy execution long before performance issues become visible. Organizations cannot afford leadership teams that operate in silos or pursue competing agendas.

An executive team alignment session creates the structure and focus necessary for leaders to align around:

• Direction and purpose.
• Cultural expectations.
• Big strategic bets.
• Execution plans.

When conducted effectively, these sessions strengthen leadership cohesion and significantly improve strategy execution across the enterprise.

Why Executive Alignment Matters
This client believed that everything that they did was rooted in service — which guides their work and supports their core values of creativity and inspiration.  While they are seen as the innovative leader in their field, they faced challenges due to high growth, high turnover, and high levels of employee stress.  The executive team alignment session helped eight department leaders create senior team alignment by agreeing upon:

• Strategic Vision
  A compelling vision of what they hope to become and create in the next 5 to 10 years.
  
  
• Company Mission
  A meaningful mission which outlined their organization’s fundamental purpose.
  
  
• SWOT Analaysis
  The key market realities and strategic assumptions that they must take into account to succeed in the next 12 months.
  
  
• Strategic Priorities
  Shared goals that they all commit to as leaders.
  
  
• Strategic KPIs
  Agreed upon strategy success metrics.
  
  
• Strategic Action Plan
  90-day action plans to move the work forward with clear roles and responsibilities.

To create executive team alignment, LSA Global:

1.  Assessed the Current Situation

• Reviewed previous business plans, employee feedback, and key processes
• Conducted 360-degree interviews with key stakeholders
• Conducted leadership decision making session

2.  Designed and Facilitated an Intensive 2-day strategy Retreat to Create Strategic Clarity

3.  Created a Plan to Cascade the Strategy throughout the Organization

4.  Designed and Delivered Targeted Follow-up Strategy Sessions

5.  Measured Progress and Agreed Upon Next Steps

To learn more about getting aligned, download Organizational Alignment for Leaders: The Missing Link to High Performance

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.