Purpose
A roadmap to help your leadership team transition from order-taking to influencing the business as a trusted partner.
Your Takeaways
- Learn what it takes for organizations to view teams like yours as trusted and equal partners rather than order-takers.
- Create a team mandate that articulates what the business needs from the team, communicates a clear and compelling vision, and describes actions the team will take to support the organization.
- Cultivate your team’s reputation as a strategic partner by marketing its services, managing how they are consumed, and creating satisfying collaborative partnerships.
- Learn frameworks and skills that will help members of your team effectively influence and collaborate with business partners.
- Illuminate your role as a leader in the business, and possible ways to achieve success as an authentic yet effective member of the team.
- Create development plans that enable team members to navigate the next phase of business partnership.
Highlights
- 3-Month Development Program
- 2-Day Team Workshop
- Working on Real Team Challenges
- Guided by Online Learning Platform
- Collaborative Application Exercises
- Learning Supported by Direct Manager
Audience
- Intact Leadership Teams in Analytics, Data, Engineering, Science & Technology Functions
Coaching Sessions
- Optional for Individual Team Members
Assessments
- Business Partnership Skills Survey
- Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
Path to Business Partnership

Key Topics
- Understanding the Path to Business Partnership
- Overcoming the Order-Taker Spiral
- Knowing the Business & Creating Vision
- Assembling Great Teams
- Building Trustworthiness & Influencing Stakeholders
- Delivering Strong Results
- Taking a Stand for Business Partnership