We conclude our series on Enterprising Teams² with the assertion that a bias towards action characterizes thriving teams. Listen here and join the conversation.
Tag: Enterprising Teams²
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Everyone a Lifelong Learner
Humans are changing, developing beings. This fact applies to the professional journey as much as to any other area of life. In order to have everyone on the team stay engaged, challenged, and committed, their positions, roles and responsibilities need to grow and develop as they do.
If you’re feeling bored, stuck or like there’s no where to advance in your firm, you are experiencing the growing pains of “growing up” in your field. You need to learn new things, deepen your skills, expand your responsibilities.
Very few of us are content with doing the same thing year in and year out. What are you learning this year? Who on your team is displaying symptoms of needing change? How might you interpret such hankerings as a positive opportunity for the firm?
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PodcastPost! “Enterprising Teams 4: Learning to Learn”
The final characteristic of enterprising teams that we explore is lifelong learning. Enterprising teams are always learning. Competence isn’t marked by the end of learning, but the beginning.
A learning stance removes the need for posturing. It’s a waste of energy to pretend to possess a level of knowledge that you don’t have in order to impress or substantiate your rank.
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PodcastPost “Enterprising Teams 3: Communicating Seemlesslyâ€
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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Who’s on Your Team?
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
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New Podcast Series: Building Enterprising Teams²
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.