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16 Steps to Developing The Individuals on The Team

When working on a team the people/individual contributions will yield the greatest benefits. People need to be treated as individuals and a requisite step for any team leader is knowing the strengths, skills, cognitive ability, values & commitment of the people on the team.

The following 16 areas of focus for developing the individuals on the team as people who can contribute and work, making decisions and using their judgment to accomplish tasks will create an environment of success and achievement for the organization, team, and the people.

10 Managerial Leadership Practices

It is fruitless to ask “Is management or leadership more important in an organization?”, in the same sense that it is a non-question to ask whether the length and color of a stick are more important than the stick. You cannot have the thing without its properties.

Is Your Leadership & Work Matched to Capability; How do you know?

This is why leaders and people within the organization NEED to be properly matched with their capability to make decisions, use their judgment for completion of task assignments (within Goal Setting Structures) and have the opportunity to work for a leader that knows their values & commitments, plus can establish clear and distinct good and bad quality definitions of work.

All people who work are due that from the leader.

The Time has Come to Drown the Complaints…like rats in a barrel.

What causes an apothegm like “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” to be true? And why does it take on anthropomorphic styles in leadership and teams.

In this article I shall explore the harm that happens to people on teams from this belief and suggest an alternative path that purges the squeaky wheel and reinforces the ones that work.

Goal Setting: Solving Problems in-line w/ Values & Commitment

Once the goal is articulated and explained (by you to yourself or to you by your manager) with clear and distinct Quality:Quantity:Time Frame:Resources with a plan for follow up. You will feel concurrent with your values and commitments, because

1. you are taking accountability for the choice
2. clear and distinct understanding of what is expected and how to achieve it.

7 Steps to High-Performance Teams

I recently facilitated a High-Performance teams workshop at the OD network of Western NY. While we did not get to everything, we had amazing discussions about “training” vs. “learning” and sharing models with teams. Additionally, we discussed the following resources throughout the day. Leaderships responsibility in building teams I2U2ME2WE Developing Teams Power point…2 day program Putting … Continued