RESULTS

Elevate your leaders. Transform your business.

“Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

The most successful leaders know they must continually strive to maintain their excellence. Whether you are engaging an individual leader, a mission-critical team, or a cohort of rising leaders, Magnify Talent can help you implement a robust development plan to boost their capabilities and effectiveness.

Case Study: Discover how one executive team boosted team effectiveness by 43% in just 15 months.

THE CHALLENGE:
The medical affairs division of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company was experiencing significant challenges at the leadership team level. The team leader recognized the dysfunctional dynamics on the team, which had splintered into sub-factions that were pulling the team apart rather than pulling it together.

OUR SOLUTION:
We assessed the team with confidential interviews and a diagnostic survey that provided a robust set of insights from which to design a program for its development. We kicked off with a one-day workshop to reveal the team to itself. This “hard look in the mirror” allowed the team to align on its strengths and the areas where it needed to improve. We coached the team to select a few areas to focus on, beginning with the foundational topic of ‘Trust.’ The team left the kick-off workshop with a clear set of action items and agreements on how they should operate going forward.

Subsequent workshops allowed the team to check in on those action items and agreements and to modify them in the light of changing business circumstances. We incorporated teaming skills into the workshops to raise the team’s capabilities and to address its specific challenges. The team committed to full day workshops every quarter for 15 months, at which point we re-assessed.

RESULTS:
The team saw a 43% increase in the 14 key factors (such as ‘Trust’, ‘Decision Making’, and ‘Accountability’) that underpin team effectiveness.

Radial plot of executive effecitveness improvment

Our Services

Paul helped stoke tremendous development in my leadership capabilities. His Socratic approach to executive coaching helped me discover things about myself that I never would have uncovered without his insightful questioning and steady, contemplative encouragement. He enabled my growth and ability to continue on my course moving forward. I recommend Paul to anyone who seeks to make a step change in their leadership abilities and needs an outstanding executive coach to help them find their own direction and push the boundaries of their capabilities.

Michael Blash
Executive Director, Global Communications, Merck

I had the privilege to meet Paul Black in 2014 as he and his team worked with our Novartis cell & gene therapy executive leadership team in matters of team development, change management, and strategic alignment. Paul was then assigned to me as an executive coach as a part of this program where my remit was to lead the registration and commercialization efforts for first-in-class CAR-T therapy. Paul provided invaluable support and counsel which nurtured and enabled my leadership approach with this highly visible and important program. I subsequently engaged Paul to support our global operations team as we prepared for the launch of Kymriah which would be approved in 2018 and is now impacting the lives of thousands of patients around the world.

Paul has a refined approach to individual and team assessment and the ability to deploy programs customized to meet the needs of the leader and the collective organization. He is an empathetic listener with an array of tools to enable the achievement of individual and team objectives.

Jeff Boyd
Global VP of Technical Operations, Cell & Gene Therapy Unit, Novartis

CERTIFICATIONS

Learn More…

Magnify Talent creates bespoke organizational development designed to fit the needs of every client and every engagement. Contact us today to discover how we can help you unlock your leaders’ full potential.