Here\u2019s a question that could reveal an awful lot about the health of your team and your leadership.<\/p>\n
This isn’t a question about vision, strategy, goals or even competencies. At an important level this is about how the leader actually feels about the team, the organization, the church or the company.<\/p>\n
And this really matters.<\/p>\n
Because when a leader can authentically say, “I love this team,” it can unleash remarkable potential. Teams will often rise up the level of affection and support demonstrated by their leader.<\/p>\n
But when it’s pretty clear the leader is merely doing time with this team, the resulting slump in morale and performance will be palpable.<\/p>\n
That’s why it is so important for a leader to be acutely aware of the seductions that can steal their heart away from their present team. Pay particular attention to these 3\u00a0seductive teams that can steal a leader’s heart:<\/p>\n
If you find yourself saying, \u201cI wish I had people on my team who were younger, faster, smarter, more dynamic\u201d you may be falling out of love with your present team. Certainly develop your team, and where necessary make appropriate changes. But don’t overlook the fact that, right now,\u00a0this is your team<\/em>. Love them and support them.<\/p>\n You might be infatuated with an earlier team you once led. A classic warning sign would be if you find yourself at your team\u00a0and secretly asking, \u201cWhy can\u2019t you be more like my old team?\u201d<\/p>\n Team envy kicks in when you look at the talent another leader has assembled and you find yourself wistfully wishing you could just swap your team for theirs.<\/p>\n Other teams can, and should, inspire you. But heed the warning sign when you begin to romanticize them.<\/p>\n To love your present team doesn\u2019t mean to leave them as they are. To quote Bill Hybels, your job is to take them \u201cfrom here to there\u201d. But it\u2019s\u00a0these people<\/em>\u00a0you are to take on the journey, and to do so requires that you love them without reservation.<\/p>\n So be careful that these \u201cother\u201d teams don\u2019t steal your heart. Because there\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0a direct link between your love for your team and the health of your team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s a question that could reveal an awful lot about the health of your team and your leadership. \u201cHow do you really feel about your present team?\u201d This isn’t a question about vision, strategy, goals or even competencies. At an important level this is about how the leader actually feels about the team, the organization,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,769,738,478,7,583,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-culture-2","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-leadership","category-staffing","category-team-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Your former\u00a0team<\/strong><\/h2>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Someone\u00a0else\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>team<\/strong><\/h2>\n