How to Run an Effective People Team Prioritization Session

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 the successful completion of a highly customized People Team Prioritization Session designed to strengthen strategic clarity, cross-functional alignment, and People Team commitment during a period of significant organizational transformation.

This technology and consumer packaged goods company sought to align its senior HR leaders around the critical priorities required to attract, develop, engage, and retain top talent while enabling ambitious growth objectives amid large-scale enterprise change.

People Team Prioritization Session Complications
The People Team faced a series of interconnected challenges that were limiting alignment, execution, and organizational effectiveness during a period of rapid enterprise change:

• The Executive Team lacked a shared vision and consistent approach for responding to significant internal and external disruption.
• New strategies, competitive pressures, leadership changes, products, and operating approaches were emerging faster than the organization could consistently absorb and align around.
• People Team goals, roles, success metrics, decision rights, and interdependencies were unclear, creating confusion and fragmented execution.
• Team members were working intensely within functional silos, but collaboration, coordination, and enterprise-level prioritization remained limited.
• Many People Team members reported elevated levels of burnout, frustration, ambiguity, and feeling undervalued despite sustained effort and commitment.

At the same time, while building a longer-term People Team strategy, the Chief People Officer wanted the People Team Prioritization Session to create greater focus, alignment, relief, and commitment across the function in order to:

• Design a more aligned, engaging, and differentiated employee experience.
• Reduce unnecessary bureaucracy while establishing clear workflows and scalable foundational processes.
• Ensure that organizational change translated into growth by creating lasting movements rather than isolated moments.
• Improve workload balance and team capacity while empowering employees to help shape outcomes and decisions.
• Increase clarity, intentionality, accountability, and line-of-sight to strategic priorities.
• Build greater agility and adaptability while fostering energy, resilience, and joy at work.
• Ensure the right people were in the right roles to support long-term business success.

How to Run an Effective People Team Prioritization Session

To create executive team alignment, LSA Global:

1.  Assessed the Current Situation

• Reviewed previous business plans, employee feedback, and key HR processes
• Conducted 360-degree interviews with key People Team leaders and influencers
• Designed and administered a custom online team effectiveness assessment across the entire People Team

2.  Designed and Facilitated People Team Prioritization Session

The highly customized executive strategy retreat facilitation session focused on:

• People feeling heard, understood, and appreciated
• Getting everything out on the table for discussion
• Having constructive debate in a safe environment
• Understanding business context and priorities for the next quarter from the CEO
• Understanding the Chief People Officer’s vision of success
• Breaking down silos and improving teamwork
• Prioritizing and rationalizing every People Team project for the next quarter
• Shifting from a “victim and reactive” mindset to an “accountable and proactive” mindset
• Allocating resources to increase confidence and motivation that the next 90-day projects make sense
• Running effective People Team Leadership meetings

To learn more about setting HR teams up for strategic success, download Should You Facilitate Your Own Strategy Retreat?

About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.

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.