Management & leadership
Team Dynamics & Cohesion
Revitalizing leadership teams by connecting individual, collective, and strategic aspirations.
Leadership teams play a key role in an organization’s ability to reinvent itself and perform in today’s climate of uncertainty and complexity. Yet, in many companies, even teams made up of seasoned talents struggle to function as a fully aligned and effective collective.
The challenges are numerous: lack of cohesion, divergent visions, departmental silos, cognitive overload, interpersonal tensions, and misalignment between individual aspirations and strategic goals. Seventy percent of transformations fail due to fragmented leadership and a lack of synergy within executive teams (HBR).
On top of this, leaders face contradictory demands: they must balance economic performance with societal impact, navigate between “command & control” and employee autonomy, all while providing a clear and engaging direction in an ever-changing environment. Without strong cohesion and team dynamics, execution capability is weakened.
Your Challenges
- Aligning the Executive Team Around a Shared Vision and Strategy. Ensure cohesion at the top by fostering strategic alignment and collective commitment, maximizing leadership impact across the organization.
- Enhancing Collaboration and Trust. Eliminate friction, resolve tensions, and establish efficient ways of working that promote transparency, agility, and cooperation.
- Connecting Individual Aspirations with Collective Ambitions. Empower each leader to express their unique leadership style while contributing to a unified and forward-moving organization.
- Strengthening Executive Resilience. Equip leadership teams to navigate high-pressure environments and transformational challenges with confidence and adaptability.
- Developing Collective Leadership Capabilities. Embed collaborative intelligence and strategic decision-making practices, fostering a leadership culture that thrives on shared responsibility and long-term vision.
Our Approach
- Diagnosing Strengths and Tensions. We conduct a thorough analysis of leadership dynamics, interactions, power plays, and motivational drivers within the executive team. Through sociological interviews, surveys, and immersive workshops, we identify key enablers and blockers to collective performance.
- Anchoring in Human Sciences. Leveraging organizational sociology, group dynamics, and the sociology of imagination, we explore cohesion factors and decision-making mechanisms that shape collective performance and strategic execution.
- A Systemic Approach to Leadership. We view the executive team as an interdependent ecosystem where each member influences overall team effectiveness. Our work focuses on interdependencies, role clarity, and how the team navigates strategic challenges together.
- Immersive and Engaging Experiences. We design dialogue-driven and constructive confrontation spaces, using seminars, simulations, and interactive workshops to build trust, enhance alignment, and drive collective engagement.
- Deep Operational Integration. We support the implementation of new collaboration and governance practices, equipping leaders with concrete tools to track progress and fine-tune team dynamics over time.
