How clearly can you articulate the outcomes you expect your team to accomplish?
Tag: team
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Question of the Week
What are seven personal attributes of yours that distinguish you from the rest of the team? How do they enhance your effectiveness?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Question of the Week
How might fear of a supervisor’s response be keeping you from making an important decision that would benefit the team?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Question of the Week
How might a distasteful or intense team task be combined with something fun to keep spirits up and minds focused and hearts invested?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Question of the Week
When you think about your team, do you see an organizational chart and job descriptions or individuals names, faces and the unique contribution each person makes to their position?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Question of the Week
Who on the team steps in and covers for others’ unfinished work, poor quality, mistakes, and failures? How might you reward and/or cover for them?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Question of the Week
How often is your anger an intentional leadership decision made for the benefit of the team, and how often is it a uncontrolled personal reaction benefiting only you?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Question of the Week
What would the members of your team say is your greatest leadership asset? …liability?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.
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Adding Value Idea: Be a Team Player
One area of work that is always in your own control is whether or not you choose to be a team player.
One thing you can do to shape how others perceive your contribution to the organization is find ways to make the entire team more successful.
This could be as simple as helping an overwhelmed co-worker finish a task. You could compliment someone in front of their supervisor, making them look good. You could add a level of extra coordination to your efforts, so that more of the people affected know what’s going on.
What you’re looking for are opportunities to take the initiative and engage beyond the strict limits of your job description with an emphasis on making the entire team function better.
In light of our podcast conversation topic this week, when uncertainty inserts its unwelcome head, you will already be perceived as a team player… key, if not indispensable, to the organization. One more thing in your own control. One less thing to stress about!
Where have you found opportunities to engage as a team player?
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Question of the Week
What attitude expectations do you have for your team, and how do you communicate and model these?
The Question of the Week is offered to increase awareness of one’s personal leadership practices and encourage experimentation with creative alternatives.