Communication, or the lack of it, is a use (or abuse) of power. The sharing or withholding of information, decisions, and/or recent developments will make the difference between a team that merely works in proximity to each other and one who vibrantly collaborates to win the day.
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Not just talk, but interaction that connects, shares and coordinates.
It’s crazy how some supervisors can’t see who they have on their teams. It’s like they’re blind to the mix of unique individuals that make up the group. It doesn’t matter who’s in the chair, just as long as every chair is filled.
The problem with such impersonal, mechanistic thinking is that it is so impersonal and mechanistic. These leaders never learn what amazing talents, skills, styles and propensities these growing, developing people bring to the enterprise. And consequently they underestimate the moving, changing dynamic that makes up the human maturity and professional development processes.
Such blindness leads to static job descriptions, rigid organizational charts and high turnover.
Who is on your team?
This week’s podcast: Building an Enterprising Team: Getting Exponential Results
The days of considering staff as commodity are over. Those who don’t know the names and aspirations of each person on their team are functioning with both hands tied behind their backs. (If they’re functioning at all.)
When teams work well together, the results are more than the sum of the parts.
We launch our five-part series on Enterprising Teams² today.
Press the player on the right and listen now.
If you missed our podcast series on Vocational Passion, be sure to visit iTunes or Odeo and download all five conversations.
It is surprisingly common to think that finding meaningful work is too much to ask. That we are not worthy of an energizing job where our contribution is welcomed and rewarded.
We have got to change that assumption! It gives our bosses too much power in the employer-employee partnership. We assume that the company belongs to them more than to us. We assume that those with positions at the top of the organizational chart are somehow more entitled to a rich and meaningful career than we are.
Such assumption need to end yesterday. Join me in designing creative alternatives for showing up alive and invested at work. Join the conversation.
Back from the Pocast Expo and swimming with new ideas. Three big trajectories were relevant and exciting for what we’re doing at Bold Enterprises.
Tomorrow I’m off to the Podcast and New Media Expo. Three days of exploring where we might go with our podcast, Working Matters. We’ve just recorded our ninth series and are having a great time with it.
If you aren’t a regular listener yet, check us out on iTunes, Odeo, or Podcast Pickle. Subscribe.
And now you can join the conversation here at the Working Matters blog. The conversation is just beginning.