As a leader, your role in building a healthy culture is never more crucial than when entering heated waters. Let’s face it; when there are no contentious issues on the table, it’s relatively easy to forge an atmosphere of collegiality and even warmth. But when the stakes are high, when issues of vital importance are…
You Are Leading Two Teams. Do You Know What They Each Need From You?
Every leader leads two teams; there’s the team you inherited, and there’s the team you built. This key truth has been one of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned with respect to team leadership. The team you inherited were already in place before you showed up. They had been assembled by your predecessor, and…
Is Too Much Advice Hurting Your Team? Get Builders, Not Just Talkers.
This article is part of my Global Leadership series; Insights from more than a decade of leadership training around the world… As a leader, you will always have voices willing and eager to offer you advice. But if you want to build a winning team, you need team-builders, not just advice-givers.. Team-builders will… Stretch you,…
Could You Be a Clipboard Leader? 3 Signs to Check
Leadership is about producing results, not reports. If you’ve ever encountered a leader who seemed more interested in inspecting activities than in inspiring results, you’ve encountered Clipboard Leadership. Clipboard Leadership is one of the most demotivating forms of authority you are ever likely to encounter. Clipboard Leadership emerges when the need for reports begins to…
How to Fix Mis-Performance and Get Your Team Back On Track
As a leader, you likely spend a great deal of time and effort addressing issues of under-performance on your team. But in most cases, the issue that should really be dealt with is that of Mis-Performance, not under-performance. Mis-performance is the all-too common problem that sees members of a team deliver less than optimal results…
