Whether in response to new challenges or following departures within the team, building or reshaping your management team is a delicate process, but crucial to ensuring operational excellence. Our support can include assessing needs and skills, advising on the optimum structure, and facilitating the integration of new members, to ensure a cohesive management team ready to meet any challenge.

At the heart of any successful team are strong relationships. Our coaching can focus on improving interactions, developing authentic and healthy relationships, managing conflict and disagreement, alignment and cooperation, to foster transparent communication and a stronger team spirit.

A company’s success or failure depends largely on the effectiveness of its management team. A high-performance management team is distinguished by its ability to act effectively and achieve excellent results. Our support can be aimed at reinforcing clarity and alignment of objectives, setting up appropriate and effective operating procedures, improving decision-making processes and optimizing relationships and interactions, for better results.

• Define the company’s objectives and needs to identify the skills and behaviors required within the management team.
• Evaluate the current management team, and possibly the N-1 level, to identify strengths, gaps and potential.
• Design the structure of the new management team and a transition plan including recruitment, repositioning and possible departures.
• Selecting talent and managing transitions
• Integrate new recruits and support the new management team to instill cohesion and efficiency

• Clarify the management team’s mission and objectives
• Define the team’s operating and meeting procedures
• Optimize time management and task prioritization
• Improving decision-making processes
• Promoting team problem-solving
• Clearly identify responsibilities
• Managing change and crisis effectively

• Get to know team members better
• Understand the personality and communication style of each team member
• Creating a space of safety and trust
• Developing effective, assertive communication
• Encourage feedback between members
• Managing conflicts and disagreements
• Reinforce empathy and active listening within the team

• Strengthen mutual understanding of roles, responsibilities, objectives and challenges within each team and department
• Clarify and address grey areas and operational conflicts between directors and departments
• Collaborate on key business processes to improve overall efficiency
• Using co-development to support managers in problem solving
• Cultivating solidarity and strengthening team spirit
• Collaborate on cross-functional projects and worksites
• Exchange best practices and lessons learned for continuous learning
• Stimulate collaborative innovation by encouraging creativity and the sharing of ideas

• Carry out a strategic diagnosis of the company
• Aligning managers with strategic priorities
• Collectively define the 3- or 5-year vision
• Optimize or modify value proposition and business model
• Defining the go-to-market strategy
• Define the company’s roadmap and objectives, and apply them to each department
• Define KPIs for the company and each department, and monitor performance

• Improve self-knowledge to be aware of strengths and weaknesses
• Developing emotional intelligence and empathy
• Strengthen your interpersonal and communication skills
• Understand and value diversity in your team and promote an inclusive environment
• Develop the ability to make decisions and manage conflicts and problems
• Leading a team, encouraging collaboration and contributing to team spirit
• Strengthen your ability to instigate and support change within your team

• Understanding the context and expectations
• Framework with the sponsor and definition of the support system

The aim of the assessment phase is to identify the team’s strengths, weaknesses, difficulties and avenues for development. It can be composed of :

• Online questionnaires on team functioning
• Personality tests
• Questionnaires to assess leadership skills
• Individual interviews

When forming a new management team, the chemistry between the members and their alignment with the company’s vision are crucial. Team Boost helps create a positive dynamic right from the start, building trust, communication and collaboration. It helps to identify individual and collective strengths, facilitating the rapid and effective integration of members into a coherent, high-performance unit.

In the context of a reorganization, the management team may be faced with structural changes in roles and responsibilities. Team Boost supports the team through this transition process, ensuring that every member is aligned, adapted and ready to contribute effectively to the new organizational landscape, while minimizing interruptions and tensions.

When dysfunction and conflict arise, they can hamper productivity and team harmony. Team Boost acts as a catalyst to identify and solve underlying problems. By promoting openness, communication and conflict resolution, it restores cohesion, enabling the team to realign itself and regain its operational effectiveness.

In intensive phases of growth and transformation, the company needs to remain agile and responsive. Team Boost strengthens the management team’s ability to steer change, ensuring fluid communication, rapid decision-making and effective implementation of strategies, adapting the company to new market opportunities and challenges.

For teams looking to improve their collective performance, Team Boost offers tools and strategies to identify and exploit opportunities for improvement. The program supports the development of skills, the deepening of relationships and the fine-tuning of processes, leading to optimized performance and the achievement of corporate objectives.

Your contact: David Chouraqui

Areas of expertise:

• Management and governance
• Corporate finance, M&A and private equity
• Emotional and relational intelligence
• Entrepreneurship and business development
• Team well-being and performance

A former private equity investor and entrepreneur, David has been working with executives, entrepreneurs and managers for the past 11 years, helping them to manage and drive change, and to develop their businesses and teams. He specializes in coaching executives and management teams.

• Executive coach & advisor
• HEC Grande Ecole graduate
• Trained in systemic coaching (Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching) and HOGAN-certified (Leadership Personality Assessments)
• Since 2012: Founder of WINGMIND, a human capital consulting firm specializing in HR audits, assessments and executive coaching.
• 2010-2015: Digital entrepreneur. Founder of Closing Circle, a digital media company dedicated to private equity and mergers & acquisitions, which he sold to the Leaders League media group in July 2015.
• 2005-2010: Private equity investor. European business development manager for a US private equity firm specializing in the acquisition of technology and telecom companies
• Since 2013: Professor of management, entrepreneurship and finance in business schools