Even the most successful companies have problems that executives would rather keep to themselves.
We work with Executive teams and Boards to develop their ability to have honest conversations about troubling issues, early on.
We work with Executive teams and Boards to develop their ability to have honest conversations about troubling issues, early on.
Leading an organisation is hard work and it's lonely.
A good Board will win the confidence of its management to the degree that it will be seen as a safe forum for discussing emerging ideas, projects, successes and failures.
Less well-developed Boards can be seen as yet another business problem and yet another set of challenges to be overcome and 'dealing with the board' turns into its own business objective: how to get things past 'them', how to keep the NEDs onside and how to stop the Chair interfering.
When Execs and NEDs talk openly to one another, problems can be identified before they've become toxic and ideas can be thought through by a collection of minds, from a helpful variety of perspectives.
Quality conversations between the two teams enable growth because mistakes are learned from, opportunities are correctly gauged and pursued, eyes open, as a whole team.