We believe that every team has the potential
to grow, improve and perform beyond their
current level.
The consequential outcome of achieving this is significant.
If every team in an organisation raised their effectiveness by
a modest 5%, the increase in organisational performance would be transformational.
OUR PURPOSE
At Leading Lights we work with leaders and teams to drive performance improvements that translate into business success, whether through the onboarding of new leaders, the performance acceleration of multiple teams or the integration of an acquired company.
To be successful, these transitions require focus, commitment and engagement by everyone involved. We begin by harnessing and exploiting your organisation’s Collective Intelligence; your collective knowledge, opinions, perceptions, ideas and ability to share, challenge and make decisions.
This is a key differentiator that will increase organisational performance and enable your business to thrive.
OUR SERVICES
Leadership Transitions
Any leadership transition is critical for the leaders involved and the organisation, and must be very carefully managed. Whether recruiting, promoting or extending the leader’s remit, such transitions can be costly and damaging when they fail.
We have deep experience of onboarding and coaching leaders to ensure their success through a structured programme that is tailored to their specific needs.
New leader onboarding
First time leader onboarding
Executive coaching
Performance coaching
Trouble-shooting
Team Performance
Our experience of assessing and developing team performance within the live business environment has demonstrated the effectiveness of every team can be increased.
The key is to leverage the Collective Intelligence of the team and their stakeholders at the outset to secure engagement, enthusiasm and focus on the priorities that accelerate team and business success.
Comparative performance analysis of teams
Team performance acceleration
National and international team performance acceleration
Cross-organisation performance acceleration
Experiential development programmes
Team coaching and trouble-shooting
Project Team Performance
Leading Lights have worked on projects of varying complexity and size, including billion dollar mega projects. Our approach builds upon the success of our team performance acceleration programmes and incorporates interventions that ensure team readiness at key project stage gates.
Workshops enable leaders from partnering companies to form one united leadership team to drive project success. Key personnel changes are supported by our onboarding and coaching interventions.
Establishing a new project team
Project team performance acceleration
Project team stage gate readiness
Project team organisation transitions
Performance trouble-shooting
Strategy and Acquisitions
We work with clients to develop and embed their purpose, vision and strategy and facilitate changes to strategic direction. Collective Intelligence plays a fundamentally important role within this process and helps to surface prime issues to address and new ideas that can help shape the future.
Mergers, acquisitions and integrations are supported by a structured approach and our cross-sector expertise.
Development of Purpose, Vision, Strategy
Organisation performance assessment
Pre-acquisition performance assessment
Acquisition management team onboarding
Business integration support
Strategic and organizational trouble-shooting
Collective Intelligence
Restart© is the online diagnostic tool that captures Collective Intelligence - the critical insights about an organization, its people and barriers to success. This proven, rapid and highly effective method for harnessing the collective power of an organisation enables leaders to take immediate action to improve alignment, results and team satisfaction.
A SNAPSHOT OF OUR WORK
A new UK energy company Vice President needed to bring together the HSE team they inherited to bond, align and resolve issues impacting their performance. A team performance diagnostic was used to capture their feedback and a facilitated ‘safe space workshop’ enabled the team to open-up, share and discuss sensitive issues. They agreed a plan and quick wins to raise their game to support the business as trusted and capable advisors.
“As a key function in the business we signed up to a ‘one team’ ethos underpinned by openness and trust” HSE VP
A multi-billion dollar mega project, involving multiple construction, engineering and technology companies, reached a critical milestone ahead of restarting commercial operations. Leading Lights delivered a turn-key solution to capture the collective insight of 120 onshore/ offshore personnel and facilitated 4-days of workshops for 60 leaders to ‘work the plan’ and resolve critical people, operational and technical issues. Team skills and behaviours were tested through our experiential F1 pitstop challenge.
“We were astounded to be finally sitting at the table with a truly integrated and aligned offshore leadership team – Leading Lights were instrumental in achieving this outcome” Operations Director
A global technology company needed to rapidly assess the effectiveness of a critical business function. Deploying an online diagnostic, the Leading Lights team remotely captured the function’s combined insight across 5 regions. Following analysis, a facilitated 2-day offsite brought the international leadership team together to share their opinions, issues and ideas, and debate and build a priority action plan. Talent management decisions were a quick-win that were immediately implemented.
“A challenging, thought-provoking and transformational programme…you improved our leadership relationships and collaborative teamwork beyond recognition” European VP
ABOUT US
We have partnered with clients in major companies, professional organisations and charitable trusts for 20 years to accelerate the performance of their leaders and teams.
Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of teams to drive peak performance and business success is a critical first step in our approach and a powerful differentiator that our clients value.
Our authenticity, pragmatism and results have been consistently valued by the people we work with and is why many retain us for the long term.
Combined with over 100 years of real-world team building, leadership transition and performance improvement experience, we offer a dynamic and winning formula.
