Building a Team of Teams - Leadership Engine

Why a Team of Teams

No organisation is a single team. It is a team of teams, and its results depend on how those teams perform together. Yet the organisations that systematically invest in teams usually pour their effort into individual teams and leave the spaces between them to chance. That is where strategy stalls, silos harden and trust and candour quietly break down across the business.

A genuine team of teams behaves like one team at scale. Just as great teams deepen Relationships (trust, candour) and drive Results (alignment, execution), so do great teams of teams.

What it Measures

The Building a Team of Teams Diagnostic works like this: a number of teams do a modified version of the Building Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic. We include additional questions about the interface with other teams. Each team gets a report on the state of their team (results and internal relationships) as well as an outside-in perspective from other teams. In addition, the Dashboard allows us to see the patterns, strengths and misalignments across teams.

The Building Extraordinary Teams Model: four quadrants — Relationships (Candour, Trust) and Results (Execution, Alignment), across the Action and Foundation rows.

Who's it for

The way we use this diagnostic is customised and flexible to the organisation. Examples:

Large organisation: a number of legal teams within the broader legal function
Medium-sized organisation: each executive's leadership team, across functions
Smaller organisation (less than 200 pax): every team in the organisation

Leadership Teams Functional Teams Operational Teams

How it Works

Assessment Sources

Team Leader

Team Members

Other teams

What you get

Diagnostic report

For the leader and the team

✓Report - a beautifully presented, clear, detailed and practical report accessed through the Leadership Engine portal (or exported to PDF)
✓Future state - a clear vision of what an extraordinary team looks like
✓Current state - a precise picture of how the team is performing across trust, candour, alignment and execution
✓Gap - identification of the gap between where the team is and where it needs to be
✓Insight - AI-powered insight informed by benchmarking data and personalised to this team
✓Roadmap - specific development priorities and actions matched to the team's profile
✓Leader support - a separate report specifically for the team leader
✓Monitor and Track - re-do the diagnostic 3-6 months later to measure progress

Dashboard

For the organisation

✓Clarity - a clear, beautifully presented dashboard depicting patterns across a cohort of teams (individual identifiers removed)
✓Current state - see team health across trust, candour, alignment and execution at a glance
✓Trends - track team performance trends over time
✓Insight - AI-powered insight personalised to this cohort
✓Roadmap - development priorities across teams and the actions the organisation can take

What you also get

Guidance from experts

Each team report is debriefed in a group workshop setting by Shaun Kenny or Michelle Rushton. This is usually part of a team offsite, leadership development program or leadership conference.

Shaun and Michelle are co-founders of the Leadership Engine platform and the leadership consultancy People of Influence. For over sixteen years, they have worked closely with executives and their teams across the globe, helping them uplift their leadership impact.

The Leadership Engine Diagnostic Suite underpins the leadership development programs Shaun and Michelle deliver, giving every team a clear, shared map of where they are today and where to focus next.

Shaun Kenny

Co-Founder, People of Influence & Leadership Engine

Michelle Rushton

Co-Founder, People of Influence & Leadership Engine