My business partner Joe has written a number of posts over the past six months on this topic and today’s hearings from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse prompts me to add to the conversation. Accountability: the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable. Accountable: subject to the obligation to report, […]
Is your team’s future being determined by the past?
I am coming into a new team this week, always a fascinating time. Speaking with each member of a team is a challenging process for me – trying to understand the business they are in, its drivers and its constraints, and the individuals themselves. Each business, team and individual is unique, however with teams […]
Is your leadership team a team of leaders or a group of managers?
This sounds like a dumb question but when I look back on the number of executive and leadership teams we’ve worked with in organisations it’s clear to me that in many instances the members of those teams were technically competent, and nice people, but not great leaders. That begs a couple of questions, the first […]
There is no I in Team
This saying – ‘there is no I in Team’ – is a well-known one, and the ‘I’ refers to someone whose behaviour runs counter to engagement, collaboration, support and synergy. This TED talk ‘Why it’s time to forget the pecking order at work’ gives great insight into how the performance of teams rests on the […]
When is a team not a team?
The word team is often used to describe a group of two or more people who are working together. However, teamwork is about combined action – about coming together to achieve a common goal. When it comes to developing a group’s ability to operate as a team it is important to determine whether or not […]
You might be surprised by what’s really happening in your team
We have often started working with a team that we have been told by its leader is working very well only to find that in fact there are a myriad of issues underneath the surface that no one is talking about. As you can imagine, this can be a surprising discovery for the leader of […]