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Strategic Change | Leadership Development | Executive Coaching | Management Team Effectiveness

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Individual and Team Assessments
We support team development with objective assessment because it adds personal relevance for team members and practical leverage points for change.

Context Associates are skilled at interpreting the implications of individual results on both the performance and dynamic among the entire team. Individual assessments include:

360 instruments
Emotional intelligence
Learning styles

There are times when, in spite of first-rate performance on the part of its individuals, a team is not operating at maximum effectiveness. We use Patrick Lencioni’s practical and powerful The Five Dysfunctions of a Team toolkit. How would you rate your team based on his indicators of team health?

Context Action Learning
Action Learning is a particularly effective way to strengthen management teams while achieving real strategic and operational results. Our CUED for Action™ learning method delivers the following results:

for Individual Leaders
• Cross-functional knowledge and a big-picture perspective
• Leadership communication, coaching & strategic thinking skills
• Greater empowerment to innovate and challenge assumptions
• Awareness of own strengths and development needs

for the Management Team
• Information sharing across business functions
• Stronger peer relationships
• Team commitment and flexibility to deliver quality results
• Productive discussions that lead to aligned action

for the Business
• Observable improvements in business results
• Greater customer focus
• Solutions for complex organizational problems
• Alignment of individual action with organizational goals

Our clients have used Context Action Learning successfully to help:
• Executive leaders break down silos and deliver stronger enterprise-wide results
• Senior managers think and act more strategically
• Middle managers become confident change agents

Context Action Learning is a recognized best practice:
• The Change Handbook (2nd ed. Berrett Koehler, 2007) includes a case study of our results.
• In 2006 our it became a CEO-designated best practice at a Canadian retail giant with 40,000+ employees.
• In 2005 it was featured as a best practice by the U.S. based Information Management Forum (IMF).

Team Off-Sites
Team off-sites are a powerful way to align and transform management teams. In addition to being an excellent forum for teambuilding, off-sites afford a unique opportunity to reach all team members at once, and to create strategic clarity in a setting where reflection, learning, and creativity are emphasized.

We have facilitated off-sites for teams ranging from 4 to 120 members. We employ a unique blend of facilitation, coaching, and new tools to stimulate inspired thinking, creative conversation, and generate strategic alignment.

Rather than waiting for the next “white water rapid”, why not lay the groundwork for adaptability by creating a self-directed coaching group—in which diversity of experience, real-world perspective, strategic input, influence and referrals come together. These advisors become your think tank.

—Ivey Business Journal, 2005

Client experience:
“Context action learning has enabled the management team to trust each other and inspired a collaborative approach to delivering results.”
“This has been a great experience in strategic thinking, change manage-ment and team leadership”.
“Action Learning has built a common purpose that is tied to our strategic vision.”

Action Learning has become the method used by companies around the world to develop leaders, build teams, and improve corporate capabilities. It has been instrumental in creating thousands of new products and services, saving billions of dollars, reducing production and delivery times, expanding customer bases, improving service quality and positively changing organizational cultures.”