Assembling A Leadership Team
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Top : Assembling A Leadership Team : Page 3 - 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:
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: 218 )
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: 692 )
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: 757 )
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: 402 )
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