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Leadership Wow

Every idea starts with a problem: Team Building Workshops are not effective enough.

Having just attended another fun team-building activity where we made spaghetti towers connected with marshmallows, I walked away thinking: “I’m not quite sure how that propelled the team’s effectiveness. There must be a better way”.

As an HR Business Partner, there was no shortage of leaders asking me to get involved with their off-site and requesting the same thing: a team-building workshop. I was supposed to know what to do to fix their problems: team members competing with each other, lack of psychological safety to speak up, limited collaboration and communication, and team members working in silos, generating redundant work. What was a leader to do?

Ah, yes, because I was supposed to be the expert, leaders turned to me for answers. So, I decided to try and find a solution.

Over the coming months, I researched extensively on what psychology, sociology, and behavioral science had discovered on teams. What makes some teams excel and others flounder? How can a workshop unlock the power of a team to take it from “blah” to “Wow”?

Working for a large Fortune 500 company at the time, I partnered with three other HR colleagues who were also passionate about building successful teams. Together, we designed a team effectiveness model and workshops that we tested on various teams throughout the organization and eventually launched the program to the entire company. The results were astounding. Without much internal marketing, we had over a thousand downloads of our program across 20 business units and 19 markets globally within the first month. 100% of users recommended our workshop. We were on to something!

As I’ve moved on in my career, I took the concrete theories that I learned from my experiences and played with it some more. I designed my own models and workshops, which I then tested on many different teams, eventually landing with a model that is simple, punchy and effective. The WOW Model and Workshops for Team Success was born. I also designed a Team Assessment Tool that goes hand-in-hand with the model to help teams evaluate their current team’s health.

Leadership WOW’s Workshops for Team Success are my secret sauce to team effectiveness. I hope you and your team will try it. Let’s get started in taking your team to WOW.

Leadership Wow is a boutique leadership and team effectiveness company focused on helping business owners and executives develop their leadership skills and create high-performing teams. We bring proven HR business practices and talent management strategies from Fortune 500 companies focused on leadership development, diversity & inclusion, recruiting, compensation, talent management and performance management. We provide HR consulting, executive coaching and team effectiveness solutions globally.

Leadership Wow was founded by Rachelynn Lee to serve…

• The increasing need for executives and businesses to effectively lead, build and develop high-performing teams. We often focus on individuals – designing our goals, metrics and development actions all centered around the individual. As a result, it is no surprise that we see teams in the workplace suffering from conflict, lack of team accountability, infrequent communication and little cohesion. Backed by research and tested theories, we have designed our team workshops based on our WOW Model of Team Success aimed at elevating your team’s performance. We have also developed a team assessment tool for you to understand your current team’s health.

• The increasing need for small- to mid-size businesses to implement Fortune 500 best-in-class HR practices to deliberately design the full talent management life cycle: workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, compensation, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, performance management, talent assessment and succession planning. For the small- to mid-sized business who may not have the infrastructure or resources internally to design and implement HR programs, Leadership Wow is here to help by providing HR consulting services to meet your business needs.

Our mission is to unlock the power of you and your team by unleashing your collective strengths to create remarkable workplace experiences and thriving businesses. We believe that high performance can be achieved without sacrificing compassion, teamwork and well-being. If you and your team thrive, so will your business.