Leadership Development

Organizations perform when team leadership works. Achieve more with development programs that equip leaders to unite and motivate your teams.

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Are your leaders struggling to make their teams work?

Confusion, resistance, and a lack of engagement all stand ready to sabotage your organization's performance.

Your leaders can neutralize those threats...if they're ready.

  • Do you struggle to rally your teams behind organization-wide efforts?
  • Do your people drag their feet on needed changes?
  • Do misunderstandings and/or mistrust stall action?
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Create leaders who make teams work.

McChrystal Group development programs prepare your leaders to remove the barriers that prevent team performance.

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ACTIVATE POTENTIAL

Turn your leaders into performance accelerators through hands-on development programs taught by experts in team performance.
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MOTIVATE TEAMS

Give team leaders the confidence to communicate the org's vision, melt resistance, unite teams and inspire action.
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ACCELERATE CHANGE

Prepare your team leaders to remove the barriers that stall execution so they can speed the outcomes the org needs most.
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Solutions to Support Your Transformation

Custom Leadership Programs

Make your leaders stronger than the barriers to team performance. 

Teams struggle to perform when execution gets tough. Our training methods—forged and tested in the toughest settings—will prepare your leaders to motivate teams to the finish line.  

Why have McChrystal Group help develop your team leaders?
  • Take advantage of the only programs built on proven Team of Teams® frameworks. 
  • Zero canned content—everything is designed around your strategy and challenges.
  • Your leaders emerge with measurable action plans and the skills to implement them.

Your teams’ impact on organizational performance depends on the capability of your leadership. Let us help prepare your leaders to unleash your teams' potential.  

TEAM OFFSITES & WORKSHOPS

Unite your teams so they are unstoppable.

Divisions within and between teams will kill organizational initiatives before they start. Our Team Offsites & Workshops bridge those gaps so your people can tackle org-wide goals as one.

WHY CHOOSE OUR TEAM OFFSITES & WORKSHOPS?
  • Resolve internal tensions that prevent team unity through expert facilitation.
  • Increase ROI through science-backed agendas that help improvements stick.
  • Surface and fix gaps in your teams' strategies before they sabotage transformation.

The results your organization needs won't come easy. It will need all of its teams fully engaged and pulling in the same direction. Let us help you make sure they are ready.

TEAM SIMULATIONS

Make sure your teams can deliver when it counts.

When the pressure is on, problems that frustrate team collaboration can make for nasty surprises. Team Simulations surface and fix collaboration problems before stakes get higher.  

WHY CONDUCT A MCCHRYSTAL GROUP TEAM SIMULATION?
  • Remove hidden barriers that will keep your teams from achieving objectives.
  • Increase your teams' confidence and build internal trust through realistic experiences.
  • Effective virtually or in-person for teams of 10 to 300.

Your teams want to deliver when it counts just as much as you do. Let us help you make sure they can.

SENIOR ADVISOR COACHING & MENTORING

Activate your key leaders' potential to drive results.   

Your key leaders' decisions—good or bad—have huge consequences. Especially when it comes to your teams' performance. Our advisors can help leaders maximize their positive impact.  

WHY HAVE MCCHRYSTAL GROUP EXPERTS COACH AND MENTOR YOUR LEADERS?
  • 1:1 guidance from experts in effective change leadership.
  • Coaches and mentors leverage insights from 100+ organizations and 5M+ data points.
  • Increase the organization's confidence in key leadership's ability to drive results.

No one else can influence your teams' performance like your key leaders. Let us help them push it in the right direction.

Anheuser-Busch Testimonial

We partnered with Anheuser-Busch to help develop a bespoke program for leaders where they could come together and share in challenges and successes and create a path forward for the teams they lead that make up the organization's foundation. This program is a key strategic initiative to deliver their vision of a future with more cheers—one everyone can celebrate and share.

Results Across Industries

Program 1

$5.6b Regional Healthcare System

25-person clinical cohort
18-month program

1/3 of participants were promoted to more senior leadership positions after completion of the program.

Average participant satisfaction rating was 4.905 on a 1-5 scale (lowest to highest)

Program 2

Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company

40 participants from disparate functions
Stand alone in-person workshop

94% of the cohort agreed that they would recommend the program to a peer.


The best leadership course in 23 years that I've taken at [my organization].”
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Program 3

Fortune 5 Oil & Gas Company

100 participants from disparate functions
8-month leader development program

92% of participants agreed that they would recommend the program to a peer.

 

Great program to train leaders through their daily work subject, challenges. [The program] makes it easy for the trainees to take what they learn and apply it back to their work.”
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CASE STUDY

Technology firm completes transformation, outpaces competitor’s stock price by 21%

A global tech firm had to change its products and fulfillment model to fit new market demands.

Problem: Internal confusion and resistance to change prevented the firm from implementing the transformation it needed.  

Solution: McChrystal Group worked 1:1 with key leaders and conducted team workshops to eliminate the execution barriers.

Results:

  • $30MM increase in top-line revenue, $23 MM increase in margin.
  • 28% increase in stock price while main competitor's went up 7%.
  • 50% increase in solution selling.
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