One day. Your leadership team works a real challenge through four disciplines and walks out with a decision made, a hard conversation scripted, a standard reset, and one thing handed off.
The hard calls land on your leaders. Most were never trained for them.
Nobody teaches the decisions and conversations the job actually requires. So the gap shows up sideways. Decisions stall for weeks. Hard conversations get dodged until they turn into a crisis. Standards slip when no one is watching. And the best work bottlenecks at the top, because your strongest people cannot let go of it.
That gap is expensive, and it stays invisible until it costs you a deal, a hire, or a key person walking out the door.
What the day is
A working day, not a seminar. Your team learns a field-tested method by using it, on a real leadership challenge, in the room, together.
They practice on a shared case first, so no one has to expose anything private, then apply the same method to a real decision they are carrying right now. They leave having done the work, not having watched a slideshow about it.
The four disciplines
Everything runs on the four disciplines from High Stakes. Your team works all four against the same decision, so nothing stays theoretical.
What each leader walks out with
Not a binder of notes. Five finished things:
- A documented decision they can defend to a board, an investor, or a successor
- A hard conversation scripted and scheduled
- A private standard reinstated
- A task or approval handed off, so it stops bottlenecking at their desk
- One concrete first move, dated, for Monday morning
Why it is different
Most leadership training sells inspiration and hands out frameworks that live on a coffee mug. This is a system built and tested where the stakes were real, worked against your team's actual decisions, and measured by what people walk out having done. They practice the skills. They do not just hear about them.
Who it is for
Leadership teams carrying decisions only they can make and conversations no one trained them for. It works best with a team in the room together, working real calls.
Who leads it
Mike McKenna, founder of TEAM Solutions and author of High Stakes: Four Field-Tested Disciplines That Define Real Leadership. Two decades leading and coaching through high-stakes work, where reading people and organizations under pressure was the whole job.
Format
Full day or half day, delivered on-site to your leadership team.
Book a conversation
The next step is an email or a short call to see if the day fits the decisions your team is actually facing.
