Ways of working roundtable conversations

Invite-only, high-bandwidth discussions with peers

Facilitated conversations for leaders improving how work gets done in large companies and organizations.

Compare notes with peers on the challenges that cross team boundaries: competing priorities, slow decisions, unclear ownership, trust, and more.

These facilitated discussions are for a) Directors and Senior Directors or b) Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, and General Managers currently working at companies, nonprofits, or public-sector organizations with at least $1 billion in annual revenue or operating budget, measured across the entire entity.

Each group is personally assembled around participants’ responsibilities, experiences, and one specific topic related to ways of working.

For leaders improving how work gets done

You’re accountable for delivering results, and you see opportunities to improve how people work together. This is a space to bring challenges you’re navigating, exchange perspectives, and learn from peers working through similar complexity.

Request an invitation

Tell us a little about you and any specific topic you’d value discussing cross-industry peers. We review each request personally and extend invitations based on fit for the discussion and available places.

If you’d like to nominate or recommend someone for a future session, please include their name and LinkedIn profile in your message, along with why you think they’d be a good fit.

Built from the questions we ask when helping teams improve

In our work with leaders, conversations about how decisions happen, priorities compete, and teams coordinate help us understand where progress gets difficult. We encounter familiar challenges in unique combinations, shaped by each organization’s circumstances.

We created the Team Effectiveness Diagnostic to make that starting point available to more leaders, with useful insight and practical ideas they can begin working with.

A few things you might be wondering

  • The diagnostic is for leaders and managers who want to improve how their team works. It explores experiences that occur across industries and functions, from competing priorities and cross-team coordination to learning and continuous improvement.

  • You can start by completing it yourself, based on your experience of the team. Your results can then support a conversation about what others experience and where you might focus together.

  • Effective teams can benefit too. The diagnostic offers an opportunity to reflect on what supports your effectiveness and where further improvement could make a difference.

  • Your results reflect the perspective and context you bring to your answers. Use them as a starting point for discussion and exploration, alongside your team’s experiences and other information about how work is going.

  • Yes. The Team Effectiveness Diagnostic is free to complete and includes your score and personalized recommendations.

Find a useful place to start

Explore how your team works today and what could help it become more effective

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