Join us on July 14th at 11:30am CDT for an interactive virtual conversation on High-Performing Teams!

Every team has its own unique dynamic, and that dynamic is critical to the culture and performance of your organization. In this interactive virtual conversation, Alex Calicchia, President and CEO of Hive Partners will share their approach to building and maintaining high performance in teams. He will provide the approach along with sample case studies that will illustrate how to move your team to high performance.

To achieve a High-Performance Organization, you need an approach that enables individuals and teams to work together productively and to increase success. Hive Partners follow a Six Step Process:

1. ANALYSIS: Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Develop a Comprehensive Situational Analysis
2. ALIGN: Bring Findings to the Leadership Team to Create Alignment on What is Most Important
3. CULTIVATE: Developing a Shared Definition of Success Owned by All
4. IDENTIFY: Improving or Amplifying Key Behaviors Needed to Succeed
5. TOOLS: Identifying and Providing the Team with the Tools and Skillset Needed
6. REINFORCE: Creating Sustainable Success through Re-educate, Reward and Refinement.

When people are not aligned, the team cannot effectively make strides toward the achievement of both short and long-term goals. Misalignment often manifests itself in the following ways:

• The team doesn’t know or understand the goals it is working toward
• The team is focused on too many disparate goals
• Communication between senior-level leaders and the teams they manage is weak or often non-existent
• The team lacks the tools or skillset required to achieve the goal

Ultimately, high performing teams find the right balance between people and process. This framework starts by looking at nine critical attributes required to navigate the distinct challenges of high performance. In doing so, we address all possible sources of misalignment while actively working to correct and improve the team dynamic.

We also marry the baseline of high performance with the Birkman Method. This allows team members to experience personal growth by uncovering their individual strengths and challenges. Used with individuals and teams, The Birkman Method ensures better communication and the development of a clearer understanding of people’s interests, needs, usual behaviors, and stress behaviors. The Birkman Method paints a comprehensive picture of an individual’s personality and motivations which influences the team’s ability to operate at the highest level of performance.

About Alex Calicchia

Alex brings 30 years of executive experience in the financial services sector and a strong strategic planning and program management discipline to his work at HIVE. In his executive roles, he directed enterprise-wide strategy formation and execution efforts that led to the implementation of innovative strategies across multiple product categories and channels, resulting in positive ROI for these organizations.

Alex’s natural ability to define and communicate high-level strategic priorities, coupled with his on-the-ground understanding of what is required to translate those priorities into action, makes him a valuable partner to clients seeking to undertake results-oriented strategic and transformational planning efforts.

Alex has worked with a variety of clients across multiple sectors including oil & gas, healthcare, financial services and various nonprofits.   Alex is certified in the Interaction Associates method of facilitation; A Birkman Signature Certification Consultant and a professionally trained and ICF GLOBALLY ACCREDITED certified coach through the Life Coach Institute.

Alex currently serves as Board Chair for Girls Inc. of Greater Houston.