Leadership & Team Development
Structured, multi-month programs for intact leadership teams. We combine proven team assessments, facilitated sessions, and group coaching to improve how the team communicates, handles disagreement, and makes decisions together. Unlike generic team building, these programs build capability that holds after the engagement ends.
When offsite team building doesn’t survive Monday morning
Your leadership team did the ropes course. They took the personality quiz. Everyone had a great time and said the right things. By the following week, the same people were talking past each other in the same meetings, avoiding the same conflicts, and making the same decisions the same way. One-day team building events don’t change team dynamics because they don’t change the underlying patterns. The trust issues, communication breakdowns, and unresolved conflicts that slow your team down were built over months or years. They require months — not hours — to change.
Who This Is For
- Leadership teams where communication breakdowns, unresolved conflict, or lack of trust are affecting performance
- Newly formed teams (post-merger, restructure, or new leader) that need to build working relationships quickly
- Executive teams that function well individually but underperform as a collective
- Teams where the leader knows something is off but can’t diagnose the dynamic from inside it
- Organizations investing in leadership development and wanting the team — not just individuals — to grow together
- PE portfolio companies where executive team effectiveness directly impacts value creation timelines
Why This Approach Works
Most team development fails because it’s an event, not a process. Our programs are designed around five principles that make the difference between temporary enthusiasm and lasting change:
- Data-driven foundation: We start with proven assessments, not assumptions. Team members see their own patterns — and how those patterns interact with others.
- Shared language: Teams develop vocabulary for navigating differences. “That’s my Dominance showing” becomes shorthand for understanding, not conflict.
- Spaced repetition: Learning over months, not hours. Between sessions, teams practice new behaviors in real situations. Each session builds on the last.
- Individual insight, team practice: Each member gets a clear read on their own patterns through assessments and debriefs — then the team does the work together in group coaching, where new behaviors get practiced in the room.
- Accountability structure: Teams make commitments to each other and track progress. Documented norms become a living agreement — not a dusty poster on the wall.
Programs
Team Foundations — 3 Months · $18,000
Best for newly formed teams or teams needing a reset on fundamentals. Establishes the foundation for effective collaboration: clear communication preferences, shared behavioral language, and documented team norms.
What’s included: DiSC assessments for all team members, 30-minute individual interviews with each member, a team baseline, a half-day team launch session where the team sets two or three measurable goals, a DiSC team debrief and communication workshop, a team norms workshop with documented operating agreements, a leader debrief with sustainability plan, and a 90-day follow-up check-in.
Team Acceleration — 6 Months · $35,000
Best for established teams ready for deeper work. Builds on the Foundations framework with additional assessments, group coaching, and focused workshops on conflict and decision-making.
What’s included: Everything in Team Foundations, plus: an added assessment for conflict and working styles (SDI 2.0, TKI, or FIRO-B), six facilitated and group-coaching sessions (vs. three in Foundations), a half-day conflict workshop, a decision-making frameworks session, structured progress check-ins, re-measurement against the baseline at the close, and team resource library access during the program.
Executive Team Intensive — 12 Months · $50,000
Best for C-suite and senior leadership teams requiring comprehensive development. The premium program combines executive-level assessments, quarterly offsites, strategic planning facilitation, and group coaching across the year.
What’s included: Everything in Team Acceleration, plus: Hogan or EQ-i 2.0 assessments (executive-level instruments), quarterly offsite facilitation, strategic-planning facilitation integrated into the team’s development, group coaching across the full year, formal re-measurement of team effectiveness at the close, and a 12-month sustained development arc.
All programs are designed for teams of 5–8 members. Additional members: $2,000 (Foundations), $2,750 (Acceleration), or $3,500 (Intensive) per person.
How It Works
Discovery Call
A free 30-minute conversation to understand your team’s situation, challenges, and goals. We’ll discuss which program tier makes sense and answer your questions.
Team Leader Consultation
A deeper conversation with the team leader to understand organizational context, specific dynamics, and success criteria. We customize the program to your team’s needs — not a one-size-fits-all curriculum.
Assessment & Kickoff
Assessment administration begins within 2 weeks of agreement. The team launch session — typically scheduled 3–4 weeks from kickoff — establishes ground rules, sets two or three measurable goals, captures a baseline, and creates the foundation for the work ahead.
Program Delivery & Follow-Up
Facilitated sessions, group coaching, and workshops are delivered on a structured cadence over the program duration. At the close, we re-measure against the baseline so you can see what changed. The 90-day follow-up (included in all tiers) reinforces the new behaviors after the engagement ends.
Frequently Combined With
Team development often connects to broader organizational and individual needs:
- Executive & Leadership Coaching — Individual 1:1 coaching sits outside the team program. When a leader on the team would benefit from dedicated individual development, the team work surfaces exactly who — and 1:1 coaching is the right next step.
- Facilitation & Workshops — When the team also needs strategic planning facilitation, a focused workshop on a specific topic, or an annual offsite designed and facilitated by someone external.
- Talent Management Consulting — When team development reveals succession planning gaps or the need for more structured talent reviews across the leadership pipeline.
- Change Management Consulting — When the team is leading through a major organizational change and needs both team cohesion and a structured change approach working in parallel.
Common Questions
How is this different from a team building event?
A team building event is a day. This is a multi-month development process. Events create temporary awareness and good feelings. Our programs change behavior patterns through repeated practice, group coaching, documented norms, and accountability. The assessments provide a data-driven foundation, the facilitated sessions build skills, the group coaching changes how the team works together, and the time between sessions is where real change happens — in actual work situations, not simulated exercises.
What if one team member is resistant?
Some resistance is normal — and often the most resistant team member is the one who gets the most value. The confidential individual interviews at the start give us insight into each person’s perspective before the group work begins, and give each person a private space to raise concerns they might not voice in the group. The assessments provide objective, non-judgmental data that makes it easier for skeptics to engage.
Can the team leader participate or do they need to step back?
The team leader participates fully — they take the same assessments and work alongside the team in every session. A skilled facilitator lets the leader be a participant rather than running the conversation. In fact, some of the most valuable moments in these programs come when the leader hears feedback they’d never hear in a normal meeting.
What if we have more than 8 people on the team?
Programs are priced for 5–8 members. Larger teams can be accommodated at an additional per-person cost ($2,000–$3,500 depending on the tier). For very large teams (12+), we may recommend splitting into sub-groups with shared full-team sessions to ensure everyone gets adequate attention.
Schedule a Discovery Call
A free 30-minute conversation to discuss your organization’s challenges and explore whether TGC&C is the right fit.