Executive Team
Investing in Teams
In highly competitive markets, businesses only succeed with a high performing leadership team who are aligned, with the ability to have tough conversations and move at pace together to deliver results. Investing in team development is particularly impactful during key inflection points. For example, with new CEOs, major business model transformations, delivering a strategic growth agenda or accelerating team performance.
Outcomes
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Clarity and focus around the purpose and outcomes the team and business need to achieve.
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Cohesion and engagement to enable faster execution, experimentation and value creation.
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Agility and innovation through team alignment, psychological safety and engagement with critical stakeholders.
What we do
The Merryck Faculty bring lived experience, coaching expertise and strategic insight to firstly build trust with your team. By understanding your context, objectives and priorities the engagement is tailored to you. This provides the space to have open conversations and arms you with the tools to fully execute against your strategy.
Approach
Beginning with rigorous scoping and discovery ensures clear goals are set, key themes are reinforced and delivery constantly adapts to fit your context. Programmes combine workshops and 1:1 conversations to enable team and individual development and embed learnings. The combination of our Mentors’ operational experience, along with their coaching and facilitation expertise creates a powerful, practical and action-orientated solution.
Read about executive team experiences
“My first time being a direct beneficiary of working with Merryck rather than an agent. Having experienced it first-hand I am even more of an advocate”. Chris helped me to shape the composition of the day and the direction of travel. You showed great understanding of what I was hoping to achieve. The interview process was very valuable. You helped to foster trust in the team. The ability to change the agenda according to the energy in the room led to a very powerful pay-off for us. Getting to a clear purpose for the team and a charter for how we operate was a great outcome from the time we spent together. I valued the empathetic approach that helped to generate a huge leap forward in personal connections. Taking the time to attend the dinner was much appreciated and helped to further build trust and standing with the group.”
Brendan Kelly
Credit Suisse
“Merryck worked with me to hold a two day workshop with my Leadership Team as part of our development activities to create a high performing team. The way the workshop was developed really helped us develop as individuals and as a team and in two days we were clearer on who we were as a team, what we wanted to achieve and how we were going to behave to achieve it. What really stands the test of time is that as a team we re-visited the outcomes many times to ensure we were on the right track and truly were able to hold ourselves accountable; we use the tools every day and the leadership team then used many of the same approaches with their teams – always to a very positive effect. That workshop created the foundations for us to become one of the highest performing teams in the business.”
Brendan O'Rourke
CIO, O2
“Merryck have been working with the BT Technology team on both 1:1 and team mentoring for the last 10 months. We found the individual retreats very helpful with thoughtful, quality interventions and appropriate challenges from our mentors. As the leader of the team I have found the time with my mentor very valuable in helping me to set out a clear agenda, actions and priorities for both myself and the leadership team.”
Howard Watson
Chief Technology and Information Officer, BT
“As the new and externally appointed CEO it became swiftly evident that the company’s past successes would not be continued in the future without a major shift in direction, leadership attitudes and ways of working. Merryck developed with us, coached and then delivered an impactful 3-day retreat for the Group Executive Committee. In advance they conducted interviews with all the senior leaders to stimulate their thinking in the new context, pulled together emerging themes to drive content and set expectations. They took a holistic approach to the delegates as an individual, as a leader and in the context of their Exco role. The clarity of direction and the honesty, curiosity and respect for each other visibly grew over the 3 days and the momentum created continues. I often recommend Merryck for their 1:1 mentoring. Now I am happy to recommend them for their team mentoring.”
