The Great Eight: Communication
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Communication is truly one of the key characteristics of great teams. Effective communication is rarely identified as a strength in the teams I’ve had the privilege to observe over the...
The Great Eight: Commitment
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) In Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, he lists five characteristics of a dysfunctional team. One of those five is “the lack of commitment.” When people have not had...
The Great Eight: Common Goals
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Imagine you are running a race. All the runners gather together, stretching muscles, bouncing on the balls of their feet to warm up, drinking a last few sips of water, popping in their...
The Great Eight: An Introduction
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Throughout our year together in LEAD 365, we focused on three "buckets" of leadership—three areas that great leaders need to focus on: Being a person worth following Creating clarity...
Shaping Culture Again and Again
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) We’ve just spent time taking our sixth and seventh cohorts through our session on shaping culture. We took one group to one of our favorite places to teach this, Feyen Zylstra. We took...
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