One of the most demotivating and value-destroying perceptions for any team is to start to think of themselves as “B List Personnel”. A related but slightly different malaise is when people believe that what they’re working on isn’t important. Your behaviours need to demonstrate at all times that you see each team and its individual [...]
Moving from the leadership of one team to several almost inevitably means that you will need to lift your own level of daily engagement up a functional level. Trying to ‘micro-manage’ is never advisable, as it suggests a lack of confidence in your colleagues and team members but it also becomes increasingly impossible when you’re [...]
Leaders can become very shadowy and increasingly irrelevant figures for teams who rarely see or hear from them. Remember that a leader’s contributions are always assessed by others, be they ‘superiors’ or ‘subordinates’ in old hierarchal terms. Put more simply, with multiple teams it’s very important to not [...]
Few of us are gifted with infallible memories. Time and activity management (both personal and that of your teams) can quickly become far too complex to ‘do in your head’ in the context of multiple teams. There are some excellent project/team management technologies out there and they should be used to help. [...]
This is very important where your teams are operating in vertical silos. Two or three teams may believe that there are few horizontal opportunities for synergy in their activities and they may also have little or no cross-team interest in what’s going on elsewhere. That’s potentially dangerous and inhibits your ability [...]
Over the centuries, literally hundreds of millions of words have been written trying to define what constitutes success for leaders.In theory, it’s easy. You can pick someone from history, such as Napoleon and talk about his great victories on the battlefield. Was he a successful leader?Alexander the Great conquered much of the then known world [...]
The thought of trying to manage the activities of multiple teams often sends an apprehensive shiver down the spines of leaders– including those who’ve had previous experience in the area!To fear or not to fear?Their immediate fears are often far from irrational. They include perfectly legitimate concerns such as:How will I split my [...]
Many organisations accept that they must change the way their teamsfunction in order to progress and prosper in the 21st century business world.They’re right!The old hierarchicalmodels of team operationswere built around the concept of a single person in authority telling others what to do.Theyare now, at best, seen as being sub-optimal if notobsolete. Modern team [...]
Over the centuries, literally hundreds of millions of words have been written trying to define what constitutes success for leaders.In theory, it’s easy. You can pick someone from history, such as Napoleon and talk about his great victories on the battlefield. Was he a successful leader?Alexander the Great conquered much of [...]
Over the centuries, literally hundreds of millions of words have been written trying to define [...]
The thought of trying to manage the activities of multiple teams often sends [...]
Many organisations accept that they must change the way their teamsfunction in order to progress [...]
