Immunity to Change and Creating a Teamwide Growth Mindset

Overview

A recent report from Bain highlights that we’ve entered the era of the “Adaptive” executive team.

Companies who want to compete in today’s rapidly changing business landscape must develop a growth mindset. This means building a team that has the skills to navigate change and a culture, starting with the executive team, that embraces self-awareness and growth.

Who is this workshop for:

This workshop is for Senior Leadership Teams looking to increase their self-awareness, resilience, and performance individually and as a team.

The workshop will teach you the “Immunity to Change” framework, and walk you through an in-depth process to help each executive who participates identify one big growth edge they want to develop to increase the team’s success.

Typical Teams we work with:

  • Scale-up startups (Series B-D) who are expanding their executive team and looking to overcome the challenges of growing pains.

  • Late-stage companies who want to invigorate trust and alignment.

Companies Sharpend has led workshops with include:

Outcomes:

Every workshop we design is tailored to your unique team and business goals. The primary outcome of this work is a step function increase in self-awareness and executive team trust.

Other outcomes include:

  • Each executive will identify the one growth edge that will most impact their effectiveness and joy as a leader.

  • Each executive will identify key elements of their “personal operating system” and share these across the team.

  • Documents to capture key insights from this process.

  • Custom-designed tools to carry forward the work of building a teamwide growth mindset.

Program Design:

This workshop requires each executive to commit 3 hours of their time over 2 months. Our typical engagements run as follows:

Month 1:

  • Meet to understand your team’s unique dynamics and goals.

  • 1-1 sessions with each executive to discuss their “operating system” and identify their one big growth goal.

  • 1-hour facilitated team session to teach the Immunity to Change framework and discuss key insights.

  • Takeaways captured and a custom process designed to carry this work forward as a team.

Month 2:

  • A 1-hour facilitated follow-up session to deepen learnings.

  • Iterating your team’s processes and next steps based on learnings.

Location:

In-Person or Zoom

How many people can attend?

  • For the C-suite: 4-8 attendees

  • For senior management teams: 6-12 attendees

Learn more:

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Why we do this work:

Nathan, Sharpend’s founder, spent 10+ years as a startup founder and running hyper-growth marketing teams. During this time Nathan realized that most workshops are ineffective at translating the critical work to boost team understanding into lasting trust and team improvement.

The critical challenge is that effective workshops must be thoroughly designed and customized for every team, and led by an expert facilitator who can facilitate interpersonal risk-taking and trust-building.

Each workshop Sharpend delivers contains these critical elements and are the types of critical team workshops that Nathan wished he had access to as a founder and CMO.