Posts Tagged ‘building a great team’
How Do Leaders Develop Discernent?
How do great leaders seem to consistently make the right decision? How do we develop discernment as leaders?
Read MoreFight Like a Bulldog or Flow Like Water? Discernment and Leadership
At some point, the question that every leader will face is: Do we keep going? Or is it time to flow? In other words, do we need the Bulldog or the Water?
Read MoreIs an Exclusive LEAD 24/7 Cohort Right for Your Team?
We’ll continue to run our LEAD 24/7 mixed organizational cohorts, but recognize that for certain teams in certain situations, an exclusive cohort can be a major win and creates the context for fast tracking the vision and cohesion of a leadership team.
Read MoreToday’s Talent War will Require the Best from Leaders
This is a season in which great leadership will stand out more than ever. West Michigan organizations have an opportunity to distinguish themselves, and to attract talent from across the nation and world.
Read MoreThree-Bucket Leaders
If we were playing Jeopardy, the clue I’m about to give deserves to be the Daily Double: The three “buckets” we are committed to filling in the year of LEAD 365. If you were the first to your buzzer, you would give the following answer (in the form of a question, of course): What is…
Read MoreThe Great Eight: Wrap Up
(This post was first published here on October 3, 2016.) I’ve served on a whole lot of teams in my life, some great, some not-so-great, and I can say without hesitation that the team I work with at Leading by DESIGN is the best, healthiest, most connected team I’ve worked on. I think the four…
Read MoreThe Great Eight: Chemistry
(This post was first published here on September 26, 2016.) Chemistry is the last of our eight characteristics of great teams. This is the most difficult of the eight characteristics to write about as it’s the one I understand the least. I believe we can teach you how to grow the other seven characteristics
Read MoreThe Great Eight: Grace
(This post was first published here on September 19, 2016.) Grace is a unique aspect of great teams. It’s also something that is seldom talked about by experts in team performance. Do you remember what we meant we used the term “grace” at our offsite where we explored the eight characteristics of great teams? The definition we used…
Read MoreThe Great Eight: Knowing Yourself and Others
(This post was first published here on September 12, 2016.) If everyone were just more like me, the world would be a better place—or at least my organization would be—or at least my team would be. Besides being an entirely narcissistic statement, it would not be the case that if our teams simply had more uniformity,…
Read MoreThe Great Eight: Trust
(This post was first published here on August 30, 2016.) As I write this post, there are 6,289 books on trust available under the Business and Money category on Amazon. What can we possibly add to all that wisdom? Maybe nothing. But please keep reading anyway. Trust is foundational to great teams, and so far—even in those…
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