Leadership Team Cohesion.
Follow our structured approach to establishing tight team cohesion and high performance, starting at the top. Embed practical mechanisms that encourage the ongoing reinforcement of constructive debate, accountability and unity.
Build the foundation for a high-performing leadership team.
Strategic brilliance means nothing if your executive team is pulling in different directions. When leadership is divided, the cost isn't just emotional—it's operational. Decisions stall, execution fragments, and the rest of the organisation follows suit.
We understand that high-performance doesn't come from polite agreement. It comes from the ability to surface divergent views and navigate difficult territory together.
Symptoms of a disjointed team
Teams are ever evolving. Whether behaviours and interactions shift over time or people come and go, without constant attention on team dynamics, symptoms can surface unnoticed. Signs to look out for include:
- Holding back: Leadership team members don't actively participate in discussions, instead they silently nod or don't engage at all.
- Pursuasive anchoring: Team decisions regularly gravitate towards the outspoken or charismatic team member's view, with few alternate perspectives.
- Veiled sniping: Open gibes are repeatedly made about a team member under the veil of joking.
- Communication breakdowns: Broader teams are acting in contrast to the leadership team's agreed position, indicating contradictory instruction reaching them.
- Avoiding accountability: Leadership team members have different expectations or avoid holding each other accountable for agreed commitments.
If you’ve noticed some of these traits in your team, you could benefit from addressing them before they snowball into bigger issues that are harder to resolve.
“Scalabl has been invaluable in bringing the leadership team together in a way that was engaging, safe and purpose-driven.
Would recommend to any teams needing to upscale their approach and move into being productive and connected quickly.”
How we can help
A divided leadership team creates friction. A cohesive one creates momentum.
We don't believe in one-off offsites that feel good but change nothing. Our approach is designed to embed new behaviours into your daily rhythm through the following:
Diagnostic & Alignment: We start with the data. We assess your current team dynamics to pinpoint exactly where the gaps are and align on what success looks like.
Foundation Workshops: Intensive, high-impact sessions where we do the heavy lifting—building vulnerability, establishing safety, and learning the rules of healthy conflict.
Dynamic Integration: Theory meets reality. We take the tools we've learned and apply them immediately to your actual strategic debates and real-world friction points.
Sustain & Embed: We ensure the change sticks by building disciplined rhythms and repeatable mechanisms into your meeting structures.
Key benefits for you and your team:
- Faster, Better Decisions
- Increased Agility & Innovation
- Cascading High-Performance
- Strong Camaraderie and Connection
- Improved Leadership Retention
Ready to move from a group of executives to a unified leadership force?
To find out more about our Leadership Team Cohesion program, you can download our information pack.