Leadership Team Development
Leadership Team Workshop
Your leadership team is the single most impactful force multiplier in your organization. When they’re aligned, everything accelerates. When they’re not, every initiative stalls.
The Problem This Workshop Solves
In local government, departments are actual silos. They have separate budgets, separate facilities, separate constituencies, and often separate cultures. Creating a cohesive leadership team requires real intent just to be in the same room, let alone working toward shared outcomes.
Leadership teams often function as individual contributors who share a conference table. Each department head executes well within their domain, but the team has never done the work of becoming a team. The real issues rarely surface in regular meetings. Strategic plans exist on paper but execution stalls because alignment was assumed, not built.
The issue is rarely competence. Your department heads are talented professionals. The issue is that no one has created the conditions for them to face what’s actually happening between them, together, honestly, in a room designed for that conversation.
What This Workshop Actually Is
This is not a half-day team building exercise. This is a structured, professionally facilitated engagement that applies The Shift That Sticks methodology directly to your leadership team.
Through proven assessments and structured dialogue, your team faces real truths about how they operate, clarifies what actually matters under pressure, and builds the systems to sustain what they build. The environment matters. We facilitate offsite, with established rules of engagement, in conditions designed to make honest conversation possible.
How the Methodology Applies
Face the Truth — We begin with diagnostic work. Individual assessments establish a baseline for each person and the team as a whole. The workshop creates conditions where participants experience firsthand the gap between what they intend and how it lands. This is where silos become visible, not as organizational failures, but as patterns that made sense in prior conditions.
Define What Matters — Through visualization exercises and structured dialogue, participants clarify the team norms and organizational culture they are committed to building. Not what sounds good in a strategic plan, but what they will actually protect when protecting it costs something.
Make It Real — With clarity established, we shift to mapping the path forward. Participants identify specific systems, structures, and processes that currently teach the opposite of what the team intends. They leave with concrete redesign targets, not just awareness.
Reinforce the Change — Before anyone leaves the room, the team builds accountability structures. Specific commitments with timelines, follow-up cadence, and measurement practices that detect drift before it becomes culture. The engagement includes follow-up support to ensure what was built sustains.
Ready to Align Your Leadership Team?
A short conversation will help us understand your team’s situation and scope the right engagement.
What Makes This Different
This workshop is not a generic leadership program adapted for government. It was built for government leadership teams from the beginning, with the specific dynamics of public sector organizations designed into every element.
Customized to Your Team
Every workshop is tailored based on initial assessments, pre-workshop coaching sessions, and direct involvement from the Chief Administrative Officer. The CAO helps shape the workshop plan to address the team’s specific challenges and objectives. This is a personalized leadership development engagement, not a program run from a binder.
Preparation That Changes the Workshop
Before the team gathers, each participant completes assessments and engages in one or more virtual coaching sessions to review their individual strengths and begin building a personalized leadership plan. When the workshop begins, participants arrive with self-awareness already in progress, not starting from scratch.
Environment by Design
We facilitate offsite for a reason. The physical environment matters. Removing the team from their daily setting, establishing clear rules of engagement, and creating conditions where vulnerability and trust can develop. These are not details. They are the infrastructure that makes honest dialogue possible.
Built for Completion
The goal is a leadership team that sustains its own development. The tools, frameworks, and practices become yours. Follow-up sessions and additional coaching ensure the strategies and plans developed during the workshop are effectively implemented. We succeed when you don’t need us anymore.
From Leaders Who Have Done This Work
“Rob and Michelle did an amazing job curating a leadership retreat uniquely for my team. Unlike any other program I’ve experienced, they delved into the core issues of vulnerability and trust, enabling us to build a strong foundation. We left equipped with actionable strategies and a robust plan to sustain our progress throughout the year.”
Aretha Adams, City Manager, City of Murphy, Texas
Who This Is For
The Leadership Team Workshop is designed for the Chief Administrative Officer and their direct reports. City managers, county administrators, and their department heads who are ready to do the work of becoming a team, not just a collection of competent individuals reporting to the same person.
This engagement is right for teams that are:
Navigating a leadership transition with a new CAO or significant turnover in department heads. Building trust and shared operating norms from the beginning rather than hoping they develop on their own.
Sensing that something isn’t working between departments but unable to name it. Staff feel the misalignment even when leadership doesn’t discuss it openly.
Ready to move from strategic planning documents to actual coordinated execution. The plan exists. The alignment to execute it does not.
Committed to building a culture that reflects their values, not one that evolved without deliberate attention.
What the Engagement Looks Like
Every Leadership Team Workshop is scoped to your organization’s size, situation, and goals. The engagement typically spans several weeks, from initial assessments and individual coaching sessions through the workshop itself and follow-up implementation support.
The investment reflects the leadership capability your team builds: shared clarity on purpose and priorities, productive conflict skills, and accountability systems that sustain themselves. The engagement includes individual assessments, pre-workshop coaching, CAO planning sessions, professionally facilitated offsite workshop, participant materials, documentation, and follow-up support. A fixed cost proposal is provided after the scoping conversation, with no additional charges or change orders from the approved scope.
We’ll discuss your team’s situation and whether this engagement is the right fit.
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