Ormond & Associates
Leadership & Talent Development Experts | Executive Coaching
High-Performing Team Consulting for Executive
and Senior Leadership Teams
Turn a group of capable leaders into a more aligned, accountable and effective leadership team.
Ormond & Associates helps executive and senior leadership teams strengthen how they align priorities, make decisions, address difficult issues and execute together—especially during growth, restructuring, leadership change or strategic transformation.
When Capable Leaders Are Not Yet Operating as One Team
Senior teams rarely struggle because their members lack intelligence, commitment or functional expertise.
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Priorities compete or shift without clear alignment.
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Decisions are slow, repeatedly revisited or overly dependent on the CEO.
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Functional agendas outweigh shared organizational outcomes.
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Important disagreements happen outside the room.
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Meetings consume time without resolving the issues that matter.
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Commitments and accountability are inconsistent across the team.
These patterns become increasingly costly as an organization grows, integrates new leaders, restructures or pursues a more ambitious strategy.
A Diagnostic Approach — Not Generic Team Building
Many team-development efforts begin with a workshop, personality exercise or predetermined topic. Our approach begins by establishing what is actually happening within the team, what the business context requires and which conditions are most affecting performance.
A team may appear to have a trust problem when the underlying issue is unclear priorities, weak decision practices, insufficient authority, mismatched capabilities or a lack of shared accountability. Addressing the visible symptom may create a positive session without producing lasting improvement.
Direction
Business context, team purpose, strategic priorities and measures of success.
Ways of Working
Decisions, meetings, communication, conflict, accountability and collaboration.
People
Roles, capabilities, leadership, team orientation and performance expectations.
Conditions for Success
Commitment, resources, authority, candour, stakeholder expectations and results.
Using a validated and internationally benchmarked team-level assessment, informed by data from more than 5,000 teams worldwide, we identify the few conditions creating the greatest drag on performance. This helps the team get to the root of the challenge quickly and focus effort where it will have the greatest impact.
How We Help
How the work typically unfolds
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Assess the team and business context
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Identify the few conditions creating the greatest drag
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Facilitate focused working sessions
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Support implementation and follow-through
Typical outcomes
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Clearer priorities and decision ownership
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Stronger alignment and accountability
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More productive conflict and candour
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Better meetings and follow-through
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Reduced cross-functional friction
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Greater confidence in the team’s ability to execute
Engagements may range from a focused diagnostic and leadership team session to a multi-month team-effectiveness program.