Predictable, structured, standard - leading in pharma's complex world in anything but.
Smart leaders have to stack the deck in their favour.
Yet most teams approach alignment haphazardly.
They'll treat TRUST as separate from TRADE OFFS, and WAYS OF WORKING in isolation from VISION & AMBITION.
In reality, alignment flexes around 6 interconnected elements.
Strengthen one, and you support the rest. Together, they create the conditions for enterprise-wide impact.
ALIGNMENT IN COMPEXITY
MULTIPLE CONTEXTS. CONSISTENT PATTERNS.
BUSINESS UNIT / EXEC TEAMS
Alignment on strategy is one thing.
But even the brightest teams can loop on
decisions, and default to function-first
thinking.
This all-star team faced a classic challenge: how to get the collective best from a bunch of individuals?
COUNTRY LEADERSHIP TEAMS
As a country leadership team, you'll have
some brilliant strengths.
But making progress on your "must-win
battles" takes more than the sum of your
leaders' commitment.
This team had strong building blocks in
place - until they realised they faced another
problem altogether.
WHAT PATTERNS ARE DRIVING - OR STALLING - YOUR LEADERSHIP TEAM PERFORMANCE?
SIX ELEMENTS OF ALIGNMENT
The OneTeam DeepDive explores the six elements, and twenty four patterns, in detail
We'll never labour the metaphor - your context matters far more.
But it provides a shared language, to study how your chemistry is working, and where it breaks down.
DIRECTION
PHOSPHORUS
(P)
RIGOUR
IRON
(Fe)
OWNERSHIP
HYDROGEN
(H)
3-LAYER TRUST
GOLD
(Au)
ACTIVATION
OXYGEN
(O)
ROUTINES
CARBON
(C)
"From a bunch of high performing individuals, we're now set to do some real damage as a joint strike-force."
Marketing VP, Manufacturing
"You set us up for concrete action on the most important and hardest to reach parts of what we do"
Senior Leader, Life Sciences
"We take away huge clarity on what we want to achieve together, and transformational personal insights."
LT member, top 10 Pharma Country LT
"You were right - this has ignited our extended leadership team in a way I simply couldn't have imagined."​​
Biosciences VP
WHAT THEY SAY: