Team Ingredient #1 Shared Vision: What is natural is to have a blurry vision of where the organization is going. The vision is not communicated enough or shared throughout the organization. What is unnatural yet necessary is to create an inspiring vision for the future that is clean and informs all throughout the organization what […]
Team Ingredient #2 Trust Among Members: What is natural is to rely on yourself or your department and not expect much from others. What is unnatural yet necessary, is to develop an interdependency on others characterized by high trust and risk taking. Actions: Leaders develop trust by trusting their people. Leaders develop trust by being […]
Team Ingredients #3 Established expectations and guidelines – What is natural is to assume that co-workers are on the same page and that they understand the desired results. What is unnatural yet necessary is to be very deliberate in clarifying reciprocal expectations and establishing guidelines for how to work together effectively. Actions: To be a […]
Team Ingredients #4 Communication Skills and Conflict Resolution: What is natural is to avoid conflict, jump to rash conclusions and not communicate what you are thinking. What is unnatural yet necessary is to make your thinking visible, fill in the “white space” for people, identify your assumptions and resolve conflicts. Actions: The team needs to […]
Team Ingredients #5 Personal Leadership: What is natural is to stay in your comfort zone and only take risks that you are assured of success. What is unnatural yet necessary is to take risks that are consistent with your values and become a change leader stretching and encouraging others in spite of your own doubts […]
Team Ingredient #6 Appreciation of Differences: What is natural is to value team members with similar backgrounds and opinions. What is unnatural yet necessary is to embrace differences and creative tensions to generate better solutions and raise the “Team IQ.” Actions: The leader is a powerful role model to the team for how to deal […]
Team Ingredient #7 Accountability & Consequences – What is natural is to be disappointed with the efforts of others on your team, but never hold anyone accountable for the missed “deliverables.” What is unnatural yet necessary is to discuss accountabilities and consequences up front, before a project gets underway and review them throughout the project. […]
Team Ingredient #8 Mentoring Others – What is natural is to get caught up with urgent crises of the day and do little mentoring or training of key employees or colleagues. What is unnatural yet necessary is to take time to train and mentor others to be better performers. Career development, learning and succession planning […]
As a self-made Life Coach for the Modern Girl, Jane Buckingham regularly appears as a guest on “Good Morning America,” “The View” and other news shows. She wrote her first book, “Teens Speak Out,” at the age of 17. She subsequently created The Cassandra Report, Trend Central and The Intelligence Group, all of which she […]
Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts in leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer. Since 1995, Bruce has worked with tens of […]