Starting Up
Newly Formed Teams
Set purpose, roles and ways of working early, and build trust faster.
Coaching — Executive Coaching for Teams
Great leaders, together.A team that leads as one.
A 12-month team coaching engagement that builds trust, alignment and accountability, so your team delivers results no individual could reach alone.
Talented individuals don't automatically make a high-performing team. iTranscend coaches the team as a whole system, its relationships, its decisions and the way it leads the organization.
Applications
Teams we coach
In Motion
Teams Facing Growth & Change
Stay aligned through expansion, restructuring, mergers or new strategy.
At the Top
Executive Teams
Lead the enterprise together with shared priorities and candid debate.
Cross Boundaries
Coalitions
Internal and external partners working toward a shared goal across organizations.
On Deadline
Project Teams
Align quickly around scope, decisions and accountability to deliver.
Team Assessment
The Five Behaviors® team assessment
Based on Patrick Lencioni's model, The Five Behaviors® of a Cohesive Team measures how your team performs on trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results. It gives the team a shared language and a clear baseline at the start of the engagement, and a way to measure progress at the end.
The 12-Month Format
Four phases over one year
Months 1–2
Discover & Assess
- Leader and member interviews
- Five Behaviors® team assessment
- Optional Birkman or EQ-i 2.0 profiles
Months 3–4
Align
- Team launch session or retreat
- Shared purpose, priorities and team agreements
Months 5–10
Practice & Build
- Monthly team coaching sessions
- Coaching in live meetings
- 1:1 coaching for the team leader
Months 11–12
Measure & Sustain
- Five Behaviors® progress assessment
- Results review
- Plan to sustain the gains
Outcomes
What teams work toward
- Deeper trust and more candid debate
- Clear commitments and shared accountability
- Faster, better-aligned decisions
- Focus on collective results
What's Included
The engagement
- 12 months of team coaching
- Pre- and post- Five Behaviors® assessments
- Launch session or retreat
- Leader coaching and progress reviews
The Shift
What changes when a team leads as one.
The Conventional Trap
The Meaning-Making Shift
Executive Presence & Authority
The Conventional Trap
Coaching leaders to adopt performative postures or speak louder in rooms.
The Meaning-Making Shift
Uncovering personal conviction, interpreting organizational ambiguity, and anchoring the room in narrative clarity.
Team Alignment & Friction
The Conventional Trap
Treating team fractures as interpersonal friction with one-off team exercises.
The Meaning-Making Shift
Diagnosing structural misalignments, setting shared meaning, and clarifying decision rights that outlast the retreat.
High-Pressure Inflection Points
The Conventional Trap
Reactive firefighting that leads to burnout and fractured trust across direct reports.
The Meaning-Making Shift
Developing emotional self-regulation, steadying decision quality, and framing challenges within a strategic horizon.