Transforming Leaders Through Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
Axiom transforms leaders through team coaching, executive coaching and leadership development in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Leadership Team Effectiveness in Kitchener-Waterloo
Axiom’s mission is simple – to help leaders excel.
This is realized through one-on-one executive coaching, working with new, thriving or dysfunctional leadership teams, and sponsoring up-and-coming leaders via our succession readiness programs.
Helping leaders excel also means ensuring your leaders are creating a highly engaging work environment while contributing significant value through our leadership development programs.
FEATURED CASE STUDY
Leadership Team Effectiveness in Kitchener-Waterloo
Axiom often gets calls like this one – can you support our leadership team as we strive to be more effective? Either the team is new and wants to accelerate their progression from forming to performing, or the team has been working together for some time and either aren’t aligned, or are, but know that their full potential is still ahead of them. In this case, the Kitchener-Waterloo based team was reality new and were struggling to truly come together – misalignment was causing friction and slowing down the pace-of-play.
Defining the End State
Greg Pinks, Chief Leadership Officer of Axiom, as a partner in the process, started with understanding the deliverables of the team. What was the timeframe and what were the measurable outcomes? Working with the team, they defined two critical business results that needed to be achieve within the next year. They then considered what they were achieving today. The difference illustrated the gap they needed to close. Taking them through a few more leadership exercises started to underscore what was working within the team, and what was getting in their way – this was the harsh reality of where in fact they were misaligned.
Defining Success and Holding Each Other Accountable
With Axiom’s help the team created a focused and succinct team charter – those behaviours and actions that the team committed to in order to achieve their critical 12-month goals. Five commitments to the team aimed at knocking their organizational goals out of the park.
Then the heavy lifting – holding each other accountable to the new behaviours, and learning how to do so in way that promoted a sense of team rather than creating friction. Through a combination of “focused feedback” and “feedforward” the Kitchener-Waterloo based team learned to highlight what they appreciated about others’ approaches and what they would like to see more of, or differently. This is a critical element of success – moving from avoiding conflict, or holding unresolved conflicts, to each member supporting and holding others accountable to team norms and critical goals.
Within a few months the team witnessed increased speed of decision making, stronger trust, and accelerated leadership team performance. And they were well equipped to course correct as needed in the months ahead.
(Note: Though this particular organization in Kitchener-Waterloo did not, some executive teams also use Axiom for one-on-one coaching of the executive team, helping individuals overcome challenges as they strive to fulfil commitments and in some cases making a personal shift from that of a functional expert to a true business leader).
Contact Axiom to explore a similar approach within your organization.
LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION SERVICES IN KITCHENER-WATERLOO
Leadership Team Coaching
How often do you invest in the effectiveness of your most important team? Perhaps it is a new leadership team that needs to get results quickly. Maybe it’s a team that functions well but hasn’t stepped back in awhile to figure how it could be better. Perhaps its urgent – it’s a team that’s dysfunctional and stakeholders are starting to notice. Whatever the circumstances, your team could benefit from working with us.
Executive Coaching
Looking to become the best leader you can be? Stop looking and let’s have a conversation. Greg Pinks, Axiom’s Chief Leadership Officer, has been around the executive table for over 15 years, he is a Certified Executive Coach, and his career has been dedicated to helping leaders excel. Let’s start by defining where you want to go and then chart a path to get there … together.
Leadership Development
Let’s face it, the world of work is shifting before our very eyes and leaders don’t have the supports they need to figure it out. Axiom’s leadership development programs in Kitchener-Waterloo are designed to be your partner in leadership success by working with you to define what skills your leaders need and providing custom and branded solutions brought to your workplace. This isn’t leadership training in Kitchener-Waterloo; it’s a journey of learning, practicing, and reflecting.
