Executive Team Assessment and Alignment
Turn a group of strong leaders into a high-performing leadership team
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An organisation may have highly capable leaders across every function and still struggle with silos, inconsistent decision-making or a lack of collective accountability.
Executive-team effectiveness depends on more than individual capability. Leaders need to understand how they work together, where their approaches complement one another and where differences may create tension or weaken execution.
Hanson Search helps leadership teams develop a shared understanding of their collective strengths, risks, values and working styles.
What does an executive-team assessment reveal?
By combining individual assessment findings, we can help teams understand:
- The behavioural strengths represented across the group.
- Potential capability gaps.
- How the team approaches decisions and risk.
- The leadership behaviours that dominate the group.
- Informal roles played by different team members.
- How the group is likely to respond under pressure.
- Potential fracture lines and sources of tension.
- Shared motivations, values and cultural preferences.
- Whether different perspectives are being heard.
- How individual styles may support or hinder collective performance.
The Hogan Team Report described in the supporting material brings together individual assessment results to examine team strengths and weaknesses, possible fracture lines, shared values and the behaviours that may derail collective performance under pressure.
Building trust and constructive challenge
Trust is the foundation of effective teamwork at executive level.
Without trust, leaders may avoid difficult conversations, protect their own functions or hesitate to raise concerns. With trust, teams can challenge assumptions, discuss disagreement openly and commit to collective decisions.
Our team-development work can help leadership groups establish:
- Clearer roles and responsibilities.
- Stronger relationships across functions.
- More constructive challenge.
- Greater clarity around decision rights.
- Collective rather than functional accountability.
- Shared expectations for leadership behaviour.
- Stronger alignment around strategy and values.
The process
A typical programme may include:
- Consultation with the CEO, board or HR leadership.
- Individual leadership assessments.
- Confidential individual feedback sessions.
- Preparation of a collective team profile.
- Facilitated executive-team workshop.
- Agreement on team behaviours and ways of working.
- Targeted coaching or development support.
- Follow-up sessions to assess progress.
Strengthen executive-team performance
Our programmes can support newly formed leadership teams, established teams experiencing change and executive groups responsible for delivering major transformation.
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