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: 1331 )
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: 901 )
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: 433 )
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: 274 )
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