Assembling A Leadership Team
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Top : Assembling A Leadership Team - Find out what leaders who lead leaders need to know about maximizing their leadership team's potential. Learn more about leading and building a leadership team.
While we like to think of leadership as one man or women having an impact, today's reality is that a single leader, to be successful, must be able to surround him or herself with other people who can also lead. The leadership challenge is simply too large for any one person.
That's why building a leadership team is so important. There's another reason. Effective leaders develop people around them who speak openly and honestly, provide expertise the leader lacks, and provide soundboards and critiques of the leader's ideas.
In this section, we've provided some material relevant to the development of leadership teams.
Leadership and Leadership Guides and Help:
Best Principles Before Best Practices
By Ray Blunt - In an effort stop re-inventing the wheel, many leaders look to other organizations to learn how they are developing their own leaders. Learn how this practice of emulating others' best practices can lead to unexpected and unwanted results. (Added: 6-Feb-2007 Hits: 1319 )
Building A Capable Emergency Management Team
By Jim Burtles - Perhaps the single most important factor in determining the long-term success of an enterprise during a crisis is the performance of the emergency management team. Jim Burtles explains how to go about building an excellent EMT. (Added: 19-Mar-2007 Hits: 893 )
Building a Leadership Team - Part 1 Mission
By Michael Schutzler - Part I: Agreement on the mission I have seen many leaders use the Moses Model to building a mission statement. They go off on a retreat or vacation or a hot shower, have an inspired moment there, and then come back to their teams proclaiming the answer. They proceed to sell that mission to their teams – and since they are the boss, declaring their answer with passion and personal force, constructive debate vanishes. (Added: 14-Jan-2010 Hits: 424 )
Building a Leadership Team - Part 3 Balance
By Michael Schutzler - A typical leadership team has between 5 and 10 members. Too few, and the power is too weak. Too many and discussion becomes unwieldy. Because the challenges faced by even small organizations today are technically complex and often global, the best leadership teams include a rich diversity of human beings. Diversity means men and women. At least a 70-30 split on gender and if you can get there, then 50-50. Diversity today means having more than two ethnic backgrounds represented. Also important, you will need at least three substantively different sets of professional experience on the team to help avoid re-learning lessons. Finally, diversity means you will need a balance of learning styles to ensure that you don’t have too many left-brains or too many right-brains. (Added: 14-Jan-2010 Hits: 269 )
Creating A Leadership Team Is Like Making A Cake
By Greg Conin - As the title suggests, cake-making metaphors are used to demonstrate how to assemble a leadership team. The article takes you from reading the recipe to topping your creation off with icing, and will provide you with some good tips for assembling your own leadership team. (Added: 20-Mar-2007 Hits: 1128 )
Essay: The Life Cycles of Executive Teams
By NA - Do you really want a highly cohesive and highly effective management team? Sounds logical, is taught in MBA programs, and is sought by OD specialists. However, it isn't strategically viable or productive! Read on to find out why. (Added: 26-May-2002 Hits: 793 )
I Can Only Compete Through My Crew
By Bill Breen - "Of all the environments for testing one's ability to build a winning team and to be a leader, one of the toughest is the deck of a racing yacht." Read about Simon Walker's leadership lessons learned while competing in yacht races. (Added: 16-Feb-2007 Hits: 752 )
Leaders Who Lead Leaders
By Kenneth A. Tucker - The manner in which senior leaders lead the leaders who report to them has a tremendous impact on organizational effectiveness and innovation. All too often, senior leaders punish their direct reports for making mistakes or try to control their areas of responsibility. (Added: 6-Feb-2007 Hits: 821 )
Managing Managers: Building a Management Team
By Julia Bradbury - If you are a manager who is responsible for a department, a number of remote groups, or a combination, you most likely manage managers. You already realize that managing them is more than answering emails, writing performance reviews, and having the final say. You often become a mentor or guide with mostly positive results for the manager and for you. In this article, I'm suggesting that you have another opportunity available to you. I believe that you can build a management team and tap a resource that benefits you, your direct reports, and the company. I've managed several groups of managers at two Fortune 500 companies. In each case, I changed them into a management team that joined me in creating and fulfilling a defining vision. Building a management team offered me the opportunity to mobilize the managers' energy, skill, intellect, and wisdom and bring it to focus on innovation. (Added: 14-Jan-2010 Hits: 204 )
Mobilising Crisis Teams
By Paul Gant and Malcolm Hafner - Learn how to best assemble your crisis teams during a crisis. (Added: 19-Mar-2007 Hits: 679 )
The Five Teams Every Organization Needs
By Susan M. Heathfield - Every organization needs a leadership team. Find out about the other five teams required for an organization. Learn how a leadership team can interact with the other four teams to develop your organizations potential. (Added: 14-Feb-2007 Hits: 736 )
The Trouble with Teamwork
By Patrick M. Lencioni - Author Patrick Lencioni tackles the subject of teamwork and executive leadership: irtually every executive staff I’ve ever come across believes in teamwork. At least they say they do. Sadly, a scarce few of them make teamwork a reality in their organizations; in fact, they often end up creating environments where political infighting and departmental silos are the norm. And yet they continue to tout their belief in teamwork, as if that alone will somehow make it magically appear. I have found that only a small minority of companies truly understand and embrace teamwork (Added: 4-Sep-2007 Hits: 396 )
Truly Authentic Leadership
By Bill George - Bill George makes the case for authentic leadership in our modern and political world. To quote: The problem isn't the lack of potential leaders, however, but a wrongheaded notion of what exactly a leader is. This misguided notion of leadership often results in the wrong people attaining critical leadership roles. Search committees and voters alike fall into the trap of choosing leaders for their style rather than their substance, for their image instead of their integrity. Given this way of doing business, why should we be surprised when our leaders come up short? (Added: 17-Jul-2007 Hits: 608 )
What Structures Need To Be in Place To Make Teacher Leadership Thrive?
By Evelyn Cortez - This article consists of tips for creating opportunies for teacher leadership, and eliminating barriers to that leadership. (Added: 20-Mar-2007 Hits: 413 )
When Building a Leadership Team, Shut Up and Listen!
By Joyce Lasecke - Building a team of leaders has been the most rewarding and frustrating challenge I’ve taken on as an entrepreneur. It’s rewarding because I get to hear my own words coming from the mouth of a director. It’s frustrating because I have to watch that director slowly work through an issue for which I can so clearly see a resolution. I have learned that in order for me to be free from the day-to-day operations of my business, I need to shut up and listen. (Added: 14-Jan-2010 Hits: 226 )
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