Navigating complexity as a high-performing team.

High-performing teams are well-equipped to navigate challenges, drive growth, attract and retain top talent, and maximize shareholder value. Assessing strengths and gaps and focusing on continuous improvement is essential for success in advancing business strategy and execution.

Navigating complexity as a high-performing team.

Team Effectiveness

Leadership Strategy

Unlocking high performance and agility in an executive team ensures they navigate challenges and lead an organization in its unique complexity.

Team Assessment & Development

Identifying collective team barriers early on enables the team to more quickly capitalize on its strengths and accelerate performance.

Team Optimization

A high-performing executive team translates strategy into action in a timely and effective way to deliver business results.

Team Offsites

Executive Teams are working within increasingly complex economic and geopolitical environments, further complicating how executives individually and collectively lead.

Relevant Resources

Crenshaw Cameo: Private Equity Leadership Trends with Dr. Erica M. Rivera

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Leadership Strategy
Success is never the outcome of one leader but of a cohesive team of leaders who deploy their skills to execute the business strategy. A comprehensive Leadership Strategy maps the executive team’s business goals and desired organizational culture to specific and systemic leadership behaviors, roles, and requirements critical to driving value creation. Managing business risk goes beyond identifying gaps in the business and team; we provide actionable solutions to mitigate and plan effectively. We develop tailored leadership strategies that proactively align with business objectives and position the executive team for short- and long-term success.
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Team Assessment & Development
Ideally, executive teams are comprised of the strengths of some of their leaders, filling in the gaps of others, and collectively creating a dynamic executive team. Each executive should bring a unique set of skills and experiences to the team, ensuring a well-rounded and complementary skill set. In reality, all teams have potential gaps that can hinder effectiveness and typically are the most destructive during times of change for a team or the organization. A team assessment program identifies team dynamics, provides data and insights to leverage core strengths, and establishes an action plan to address gaps. Team engagements result in accelerated trust, collaboration, cohesion, and alignment among a dynamic executive team designed to deliver results.
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Team Optimization
An executive team that has a shared and clear understanding of the company's vision and long-term strategy efficiently executes plans, projects, and operational initiatives. Customized team offsites support the ELT to enhance their impact on the organization, to better understand how to leverage their leadership, and to optimize individual, team, and organizational performance. Targeted programs accelerate the development of trust, collaboration, cohesion, and alignment among the ELT, emphasizing broader organization cohesion and avoiding potentially disruptive dynamics to persist.
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Team Offsites
Depending on the industry, context, and business goals, executive teams benefit from the expertise of our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who can directly address a specific challenge or gap through bespoke offsites and programs. Targeted programs enable adaptation to changes in the market, industry, or regulatory environment rather than reactively holding steadfast and miss an opportunity to encourage a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. The diverse expertise of our SMEs helps in addressing challenges and transformations occurring in various parts of the business.
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How well is your senior team aligned on strategy, challenges, and solutions?

A documented leadership strategy and approach to prioritization and execution, crafted and aligned by senior leadership, helps to avoid conflicting role clarity and discrepancies in leadership approaches.

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Does your senior team collaborate on critical decisions for the business?

Teams are most effective when encouraged to share diverse perspectives and insights on critical decisions and when the structure of meetings supports collaborative decision-making processes.

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Does your senior team promote a culture of integrity and accountability?

An established feedback system demonstrates cultural commitment. Including these values as criteria in performance evaluations rewards leaders who reinforce their importance.

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"Crenshaw transformed our leadership team’s dynamics by aligning us on our divergent plans and assisting in prioritizing challenges and strategies. They've helped us navigate complex decisions to drive performance and reinforce our investment approach."

Senior Talent Partner, Private Equity Firm