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In today's competitive environment, leaders don't win alone. They rely on teams who support them and help them win. One could say that the leader uses his or her "power" to make their teams do what they do. That sounds negative and manipulative, and in a recent discussion with senior leaders, they told me as much. However, the term "power" is not inherently positive or negative; we give the word the connotation.
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Do people with a positive attitude perform better at work? Anecdotally, it would seem that people who have higher levels of positivity have greater job satisfaction and, as a result, perform better. Research actually supports this.
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Leadership Consistency
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Employees look to leaders in their organizations for cues on how to behave. If it is okay for a leader to behave in a certain way, it is deemed to be okay for the employee to behave that same way. So much for the "do as I say and not what I do" philosophy that some leaders espouse!
How does a leader's behavior contribute to a high performing team? One aspect of this is for the leader to behave in a consistent manner and role model the expected behavior. That includes an unremitting focus on a few key issues, regularity in in mood and behavior, and decision making processes that are stable and consistent.
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Creating High Performing Teams
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Success in today's team performance work environment is heavily due to team performance. No one person can achieve more than a high performing team. A team is more than a group of people who are focused on achieving a goal. A team is a cohesive unit that consists of interdependent members who rely on each other to get the job done. What do high performing teams do better than others? Based on my experience, supported by research, these are the top ten things that these teams do very well.
Read The Full Article About Creating High Performing Teams
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How Expectations Exchanges Help Create Role Clarity
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One of the greatest barriers that teams face is a lack of clarity over roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities. Where clarity is an issue, typically there will also be a mismatch of expectations.
Expectations management can be used to provide clarity with respect to unstated or implied expectations. It is the process of discussing what each person in a relationship expects of the other. Oftentimes, the mere thought of doing this frightens people. They think if they know the other person's expectations, it will be difficult to live up to them or they believe that it means that one person doesn't trust the other. In fact, neither should be true. Exchanging expectations is about clarifying roles and responsibilities. It is about understanding what the requirements are for doing a good job. It is about knowing what the other person believes is required in a given situation.
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Andrew Carnegie said, "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Teams are how work gets done in organizations. Therefore, it is critical that teams work both effectively and efficiently. It serves a team well to move quickly through the stages of forming, storming, and norming to performing and then adjourning, if required.
If your team could use some assistance to become a high performing team, our Transcend Teaming offering might be valuable for you. The Transcend Teaming team coaching program provides an environment where team members are co-creators of the team that everyone wants to be on. This program includes all team members and its focus is increasing whole team effectiveness.
Call me at 403.547.7900 or email: Wilma@transcendmgt.com to find out more.
In the meantime, happy teaming!
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