Great ideas and inspiring vision are not enough when your team is mired in drama and division.​
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​We believe that every individual wants to be on a winning team, and we know it’s already a big load just to lead them. Dysfunction makes everything harder, and too many leaders feel like they just need to push through the discord. Rather than tolerating the workarounds, we want you to experience the power of an entire team rowing together.
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The cost of drama is enormous.​
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Challenging relationship dynamics impact morale and productivity in huge ways. When teams aren’t aligned, the focus shifts from doing the work to defending positions. And as new initiatives bring up old hurts, good work gets gridlocked in patterns of resistance and fear.
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how ocn navigated leadership changes and rebuilt trust
OCN's leadership team was at a breaking point. Financial woes, leadership turnover, and a fractured culture had taken their toll, leaving principals feeling isolated and central office leaders struggling to hold everything together.
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But a glimmer of hope emerged. With support, the leaders began to listen, share, and rebuild trust. Would this be enough to pull OCN back from the brink and unite them in a shared vision for the future?
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Leading Elephants helped us lean into tough conversations, unwind old stories and resolve “hot spots” to do the important work of transforming kids’ lives together.
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We learned through our work that being right with ourselves and each other is critical to meeting our mission of helping kids feel known, loved, supported and educated.
Leading Elephants led a process which enabled us to see clearly for the first time the barriers confronting us and ground us in the changes needed to reach our goals.
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They have a brilliant way of addressing both the adaptive and technical challenges to ensure that change is ingrained in your culture and sustained long after they finish.
Remy W., President
Yetta L., CEO
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It’s a dance. Choreographed, practiced, worn into the grooves of the everyday interactions. When teams get into an oft-traveled pattern in their interpersonal relationships, their behaviors are almost scripted and predictable.
It would be one thing if a team was thriving, but as we see teams fraying, with that sheen of “just holding together,” these dances are dangerous.
At Leading Elephants, we’re seeing that organizations are “running hot” more often than not, and many feel like the grind is inevitable. That resignation seems to sap soul and vitality out of the work.
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Truth be told, most organizations settle for some level of chaos, dysfunction, and/or detachment as their norm.
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In this time of year - where political polarization is heightened, time with family is right around the corner, and we are rebuilding the fabric of our work lives, what does it look like to move from positions to connections?
We explored the advice of experts in dialogue across political and racial lines, and our favorite resources on conversational skills, to curate tips for you to bring greater connection, grace and care to your holiday tables - and your conference tables - this season.
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