Value your teams equally
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 [...]
Delegate
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 [...]
Communicate
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, [...]
Use tools to support you
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 [...]
Share group activities
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 [...]
Managing Teamwork across Multiple Teams
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 [...]