As a premiere organization development consulting firm, Guttman provides a range of services in three core areas: Leadership Team Alignment, Leadership Coaching, and Leadership Development.
Each of Guttman’s core service areas—Leadership Team Alignment, Leadership Coaching, and Leadership Development—are powerful vehicles for elevating the performance of teams and individuals. But game-changing, breakthrough performance comes about when the three services are integrated into a comprehensive approach that creates horizontal organizations and high performance teams within them.
Accelerating High-Performing Virtual Teams is a highly interactive program, conducted virtually using the Adobe Connect platform, and designed to equip virtual teams with the key skills and tools needed to enhance their leadership and team effectiveness.
Because today’s teams are dispersed geographically, sustaining high performance levels, continuously improving, and staying “engaged” are especially challenging. In addition, while the attributes of high-performing teams are the same for all types of teams, there are several key distinctions that must be taken into account for virtual teams to achieve high performance. These include: challenges to focus and flexibility, using technological tools, and engaging virtually, given the lack of “live” face-to-face interaction on virtual teams. This program equips team leaders and members with the ability to accelerate performance in the virtual environment.
Accelerating High-Performing Virtual Teams is delivered in four phases
Phase I | Team assessment of current strengths and opportunities |
Phase II | Team “virtual” observation with feedback |
Phase III | Four team skill-building modules: Active Listening | Assertion | Conflict/Trust | Decision Making |
Phase IV | A 90-day, post-learning assessment that measures the team’s progress and effectiveness. |
Additional team coaching and consulting support can be provided through the Guttman Leadership Institute to enhance continuous learning and development.
Who Should Attend?
- Teams (intact, cross-functional, or project) who work across time, space, cultural, or organizational boundaries and routinely communicate electronically
Learning Objectives
- Assess current “as is” of virtual-team effectiveness through an online survey and real-time observation of team members.
- Understand the skills, accelerators, and stallers of high-performing virtual teams
- Identify the actions and behaviors necessary to leverage the skills/accelerators and mitigate the stallers
Learning Format
- Assessments, concept briefings, case studies, skill practice, experiential exercises, structured application and tracking, with optional follow-on coaching support
Program Duration
- Sixteen program hours conducted in 6 modules, including virtual team overview, action learning, team observation, leadership skill development and assessment.
Each year, Guttman professionals coach hundreds of executives, helping them reach inwardly—and look outwardly to significant others—to develop, grow, and achieve. It is a journey that is a true partnership, one in which the Guttman coach employs the latest coaching approaches to objectively assess leadership development needs, explore possibilities with the coachee, monitor progress, and ensure that the change is sustained over time.
Leadership Team Alignments deal with live issues and focus on redefining what it means to lead and be a player in a horizontal setting driven by a high-performance culture. At the end of the initial alignment session, a team knows exactly which key issues it needs to resolve and is united by tangible agreements for moving forward. Members have a clear picture of the changes they must make, both as individuals and as team members accountable not only for their own performance, but for the leader’s and, ultimately, that of the entire team. With the foundation for high performance in place and guided by an integrated process of leadership development, coaching, and reassessment, the team moves to playing at significantly higher levels.
“Developing High-Performing Leaders” was not merely a training experience, but a team-building event. Participants built trust and relationships; … they learned how to play in the same sandbox and… manage their people better….We’re now managing meetings for speed, clarifying issues, and resolving them by assigning ownership, stakeholders, and a time frame. This has shortened issue-resolution time….The session changed my team’s morale, behavior, and emotional acceptance of the process.
Jeff Erle, CEO MobilityWare
Leadership Team Alignments build a high-performance culture, a set of behaviors, and a way of operating that begins with senior teams and cascades to key teams at succeeding levels. Leadership Coaching ensures that teams and individual become adept at working effectively in the new horizontal, high-performing environment. Leadership Development equips everyone with the “know how” to succeed in an organization that works horizontally rather than in silos, that redefines the nature of accountability, that is transparent and focuses on rapid issue resolution, and that is stridently performance- and results-based.
The Guttman approach is collaborative and client centered. We work off each client’s agenda, using time-tested processes that leverage the experience of clients and the expertise of our consultants to leave behind a permanent capability. Our consulting team is acutely aware of cultural nuances and organizational dynamics, both crucial to building trust and making change “stick.”
In addition to the services in the three core areas just described, Guttman offers an array of organization development initiatives targeted to specific issues and needs including:
- Brand/Category Teams
- Change Management
- Conflict Resolution and Mediation
- Decision Making
- Negotiation Readiness
- New-Leader Assimilation
- Personal/Team Effectiveness
- Process Observation
- Project Support
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning
- Team Coaching
The organization development consulting solutions offered by Guttman Development Strategies (GDS) aim at significantly increasing issue-resolution speed and agility, while reducing the friction that compromises performance and impairs competitiveness.The three core sets of Guttman services, supplemented by a range of related service offerings, provide an integrated approach to organization development and change.