Our cohort-based development programs focus on building a system of leaders with the unique combination of capabilities and leadership behaviors your organization needs to succeed.

Why choose our Custom Leadership Programs?

Sustainable Leader Behaviors

The old ways of developing leaders, with one-off training programs, no longer cut it. McChrystal Group’s Leadership Development puts learning in context over time and makes it active—to create the sustainable behavior change needed for genuine transformation.

Competitive Agility

Operating quicker and more intelligently is key to outpacing the competition—this is at the heart of all we do at the McChrystal Group. Leaders play a crucial role in driving team performance and business outcomes.

High Performing Teams

At McChrystal Group, we believe in the power of shared consciousness, common purpose, trust, and empowerment. Leadership development is central to building diverse, flexible and empowered teams with these characteristics.

ROI—The Ultimate Metric

Leadership development is a $300bn+ industry, but 66% of managers said they didn’t improve after participating in leadership development programs. Leader development MUST deliver a business return on investment and McChrystal Group is positioned to do so.

Experienced McChrystal Group leaders leverage their firsthand knowledge to provide wisdom and guidance on executives’ most pressing issues.

Your success depends on your leaders, especially in complex environments and times of uncertainty.

The real challenge is identifying and building the essential capabilities your leaders need to drive your strategy, build high-performing teams, retain your top talent, and ultimately transform your organization at all stages of its evolution.

Why have McChrystal Group experts coached and mentored your leaders?

•    1:1 guidance from experts in effective change leadership.
•    Coaches and mentors leverage insights from 100+ organizations and 5M+ data points.
•    Increase the organization's confidence in key leadership’s ability to drive results.

No one else can influence your team's performance like your key leaders. Let us help them push it in the right direction.

Organizations perform when teams work, and teams can’t work without strategy alignment

Strategic complexity and ambiguity get in the way of organizational momentum and adaptability. Many teams struggle to balance short-term pressures with long-term strategic objectives—how organizations define success. To be successful in today’s complex and unpredictable marketplace, leaders must effectively clarify their vision, clearly define what success looks like, determine how they will measure and achieve success, prioritize their limited resources, and align their team around their plan.

A Communications Forum provides deep contextual understanding that helps break down silos and drive collaboration, enabling an organization to execute its strategy with greater speed and adaptability.​

Organizations perform when teams work, and teams can’t work without communication.

Streamline your communication processes and operating models to eliminate waste, increase effectiveness, and improve cross-functional collaboration. ​Our approach improves organization-wide communication, builds internal networks, and reduces the number of meetings, ensuring that your enterprise functions optimally in today’s resource-constrained world.

• Having a successful communication infrastructure requires thoughtful planning and deployment. Our team of experts is adept at weaving together voice, video, and data into a coherent communications system required to thrive in our global and hybrid world.​
• Today’s work environment demands that organizations be adaptable in their ways of workings. Our collaboration methodology transforms how information is shared, stored, and interacted with in your day-to-day stream of work.

We design and deliver experiential sessions that use a variety of interactive elements to facilitate dialogue around your team’s most pressing challenges and opportunities while developing their own abilities as leaders.

Sessions can be held in-person or virtually and range from 1–3 days.

Why Your Team Needs An Offsite

The most impactful offsites use a variety of interactive elements to facilitate dialogue around participants’ most pressing challenges and opportunities, all while developing their ability to work as a team. A McChrystal Group-led simulation creates more engagement and learning than a keynote-style presentation alone, ensuring a powerful discussion on what operating as a Team of Teams® could mean for your organization.

Outcomes

•    Hold critical discussions that will drive your strategy forward and enable decisive action
•    Refocus and re-energize the team on the mission, as well as key priorities and decisions
•    Promote transparency and diversity of thought to increase engagement and innovative problem-solving
•    Learn best practices and first-hand lessons directly from experienced leaders
•    Reinforce critical parts of your culture that are essential for sustained performance
•    Engage in memorable experiences that build trust between team members
•    Acquire practical tools and techniques for building resilience and adapting to change

Needs Analysis

We leverage surveys and interviews with key stakeholders to gain insights to drive offsite outcomes.

Design & Coordination

We work with you to design a uniquely tailored experience and handle all the important logistics.

Offsite Delivery

We ensure a seamless delivery by seasoned leaders who facilitate critical discussions and engaging experiences.

Results Report

We capture critical themes that emerge during the offsite and provide recommendations in a useful document.

Our approach tailors simulation-based offsites to create discussion and learning in support of your objectives through a five-step process:

•   Begin with our client’s strategy and specific challenges in mind
•    Tailor the experience with our team of adult learning experts
•    Leverage our unique approach and perspective on leading teams
•    Use experienced leaders with exceptional backgrounds to facilitate sessions
•    Synthesize outputs into actionable recommendations containing practical concepts, tools, and tactics, all backed by research

When the way your teams work together is lacking, so is their execution. Our Operating Rhythm solutions replace problematic patterns with structured, repeatable processes that work.

Why Choose Our Operating Rhythm Solutions?

•    Design your teams' communication cadence around the organization's priorities.
•    Align team members around a shared purpose and the parts they each play to fulfill it.
•    Structure feedback processes so they drive continuous improvement. Your teams are capable, but habitual patterns can and will hold them back.

Operating Rhythm Links Strategy to Execution

Operating Rhythm establishes a regular ​cadence of activities by which the business meets, ​synchronizes, and disperses to act on leadership’s intent. ​

An effective operating rhythm has the following characteristics:

•    Reinforces strategic intent and priorities
•    Connects and synchronizes cross-functional teams
•    Enables the sharing of information, context, best practices, and organizational learning
•    Fosters ecosystem thinking and a team-based culture of winning together
•    Promotes organizational focus, drives accountability for the delivery of meaningful business results
•    Surfaces issues and opportunities, enables timely and effective decisions
•    Helps organizations anticipate and adapt to operating environment changes

Experienced McChrystal Group leaders leverage their firsthand knowledge to provide wisdom and guidance on executives’ most pressing issues.

Your success depends on your leaders, especially in complex environments and times of uncertainty.

The real challenge is identifying and building the essential capabilities that your leaders need to drive your strategy, build high-performing teams, retain your top talent, and ultimately transform your organization, at all stages of its evolution.

Why have McChrystal Group experts coached and mentored your leaders?

•    1:1 guidance from experts in effective change leadership.
•    Coaches and mentors leverage insights from 100+ organizations and 5M+ data points.
•    Increase the organization's confidence in key leadership’s ability to drive results.

No one else can influence your team's performance like your key leaders. Let us help them push it in the right direction.

Build the leaders that build your business.

By integrating coaching, mentoring, and group learning from experienced leaders and practitioners across industries, McChrystal Group fuels professional development—and organizational success. Get in touch to learn more today.

Organizations Perform When Teams Work. When it comes to the Executive Team, this is even more true.

Strategy and culture are the keys to your organization’s performance. Those keys and that performance is directly shaped by the Executive Team where high-performance is not just an advantage but a necessity. If the Team is operating with anything less than excellence, the organization will suffer lower productivity, higher turnover, increased risk, and missed opportunities.

Overview

Together, we’ll amplify individual strengths, eradicate weaknesses, and foster unwavering trust, all while forging a shared vision that accelerates the Executive Team into a higher gear. The team will learn to navigate complex decisions, set clear priorities, manage tensions and paradoxes, model an inclusive culture, and take decisive action – with the rest of the organization following their lead.

FRAMEWORK

We Build Custom Solutions to Accelerate Your Executive Team Around Five Factors

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•    SHARED VALUES: A shared vision, mission, and principles anchor the team’s common purpose that serves as its North Star
•    ALIGNED STRATEGY: Execution of the common purpose is driven by a set of prioritized objectives, strategies, initiatives and metrics that define individual and collective goals
•    RIGHT LEADERSHIP: The right mix of skills, knowledge, and experience enable the team to embrace empowered execution within their defined decision space
•    PRODUCTIVE NORMS: Clear standards of behavior foster trust, psychological safety, accountability, and productive relationships
•    EFFECTIVE MECHANICS: Effective processes, technology, and operating rhythm create shared consciousness to promote collaboration, coordination, and decision-making.