Team Performance
Individual Talent is Only Half the Battle
High-performing individuals do not automatically make a high-performing team. Misalignment on priorities, unclear decision rights, and insufficient accountability can undermine even the most capable leadership group. CLA helps executive teams get aligned, build operating discipline, and perform at a level the organization can feel.
Learn MoreWhen the Leadership Team Is Pulling in Different Directions
Misalignment at the top is not usually about personalities. It is about unclear priorities, ambiguous roles, and decision processes that break down under pressure. We help leadership teams identify the source of friction, establish shared direction, and build the operating discipline to move together.
When a New Team Needs to Build Trust and Move Fast
New leadership configurations, post-acquisition, post-restructure, or following significant leadership changes, require deliberate investment in team effectiveness. We accelerate the time it takes for a team to develop the trust, clarity, and operating rhythms needed to perform at a high level.
Build Leaders Who Are Ready to Lead Boldly
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Misalignment at the top is not usually about personalities. It is about unclear priorities, ambiguous roles, and decision processes that break down under pressure. We help leadership teams identify the source of friction, establish shared direction, and build the operating discipline to move together.
New leadership configurations, post-acquisition, post-restructure, or following significant leadership changes, require deliberate investment in team effectiveness. We accelerate the time it takes for a team to develop the trust, clarity, and operating rhythms needed to perform at a high level.
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Our Approach to Team Performance
We've partnered with hundreds of leadership teams to enhance cohesion and achieve measurable business results. Our Senior Team Performance Navigator provides a customized diagnostic that analyzes your team's unique operating context to pinpoint the specific performance drivers that will determine success or failure.
Diagnostic First
We assess team dynamics, decision-making patterns, and interpersonal tensions before designing any intervention. The Senior Team Performance Navigator identifies the specific performance drivers relevant to your team's context.
True Partnership
We don't dictate answers. We collaborate with teams to uncover the most impactful improvement opportunities and co-create solutions.
Research-Based Methods
We apply innovative, proven methods grounded in the latest team performance research.
Sustained Over Time
Lasting team change requires more than a single offsite. We apply ongoing feedback loops and structure engagements to build momentum and reinforce new operating norms over time.
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Download Our Team Performance Guide
Our guide shares how we coach teams to enhance engagement and improve performance.
Our Expertise is Trusted By
“CLA enabled us to take a step back from our daily work to focus on aligning our vision for continued growth. I was impressed by their ability to tease out the unique perspectives and strengths of our team members, and I am excited to work together to achieve our unified goals over the coming years.”
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Experts in Team Performance
Our practitioners bring deep experience in executive team dynamics, organizational psychology, and facilitation, grounded in behavioral science and tested across complex organizations.
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FAQs
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The Senior Team Performance Navigator is CLA’s proprietary diagnostic for executive teams. It analyzes the team’s unique operating context and identifies the specific performance drivers that are most critical to their success, rather than applying a generic framework. The Navigator evaluates how the team sets priorities, makes decisions, manages accountability, builds trust, and handles conflict, and produces a targeted picture of where the team’s most impactful improvement opportunities lie.
A facilitated offsite is one tool in team development. Offsites are useful for building shared context, making strategic decisions, and accelerating relationships. Lasting team change requires ongoing reinforcement: new operating norms practiced in real decision-making situations, accountability structures that persist after the offsite ends, and regular feedback loops. CLA designs engagements with a sustained arc rather than single events.
Initial diagnostic work, the Senior Team Performance Navigator assessment and findings presentation, typically takes two to four weeks. A full engagement designed to shift how the team operates runs three to nine months, depending on scope and the team’s starting point.
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Whether you're starting from scratch or breaking through a plateau, we can help your team operate at its best.
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