March 2020 - Team and Leader Accelerated Development Proposal

Sent proposal in March 2020 - PDF

JULY 29TH 2019 - EMPHASIS: Teams and Trust

Studies now in academic, business and other organizational setting have now shown that what differentiates high performing teams who sustainably deliver outstanding results is the existence of a culture that is both a) psychologically safe (i.e. where team members feel trusted, respected and heard) and b) has high goals/expectations.

No trust, then very stressful environment that delivers for a while but leads to various forms of burnout.

No high goals/expectations and then you have a team that all get along but deliver mediocre results.

The trick is being a leader who can build both high trust/high psych safety and motivating/stretching goals. And it seems that the secret ingredient is a) a leader who can make himself/herself vulnerable (i.e. be authentically a human in front of his/her team) and b) a leader who attends to building the trust of the team members with him/her and with each other over time, starting with first the capacity to trust each other (for real), then the capacity to disagree respectfully (without attacks or hard feelings), then a sense of shared commitment and accountability for results….

Below you will find some materials for you to review first.

Then consider how you would start to integrate them as a process with/for your team. We can discuss in more detail together during our next call.

Note: Item 7 is a sample high performing team overview that I would usually provide to consulting clients interested in getting started with a team intervention. It gives you a sense of the possible elements of our accelerated development plan forward, as well as may give you a blueprint for some of the things you may be doing with your own team to develop them as individuals and as a team.

Enjoy! Dorian

Materials

1. Lencioni Infographic 5 Dysfunctions of a team

2. Lencioni Anime' Appendix with summary on steps to take to build trust, encourage generative conflict/disagreement, etc

3. Lencioni Construct 2-pages

4. Amy Edmondson’s Ted Talk on Trust, Motivation, Stretch goals and High Performance