Do you want to be a leader? Can you build a cohesive team?
The fourth of Winning Edge’s 10 leadership concepts in our Take Another Step System, an inspirational leadership workshop:
Leadership is Building a Cohesive Team.
For all of the championship teams I have been on, I quickly learned that I had to surrender my interests and submit to the team’s greater goals. To do so, I had to trust my leadership. So how can you, as a leader, get your team to trust that you and your processes will lead them to better outcomes for everyone?
For us to build our cohesive team (our “Dream Team”, if you will), we need 3 ingredients:
- Functionality
- Attention to Relationships
- Buy-in
Consider this from Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” For your team or organization to come together, stay together, and then grow together, the following 3 ingredients will be vital; connecting the heart and spirit of your people together to be their very best in a team environment. Once everyone understands that they are an integral part of the team, then everyone will be empowered to take another step.
Consider this from Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” For your team or organization to come together, stay together, and then grow together, the following 3 ingredients will be vital; connecting the heart and spirit of your people together to be their very best in a team environment. Once everyone understands that they are an integral part of the team, then everyone will be empowered to take another step.
1. Functionality
First, leaders must build systems and processes that work. Then they must put the right people in the right places to maximize performance. When teammates are placed in roles best suited to their skills, they will become more confident, more effective, and more invested in group outcomes. With the right inspirational leadership driving the process, the organization then has the capacity to grow and adapt through changing circumstances. With functionality as our foundation, your team will grow and thrive.
2. Attention to Relationships
The most effective leaders have nurtured and developed positive relationships with those around them. They have shown their people through words and deeds that they care about them and that they are interested in their well-being. They are not just working on improving the organization’s outcomes, but also focusing on the benefit of the individual. When leaders meet their people right where they are - not in a place where they wish them to be - that is where relationships are formed. Once our people know, see, and feel that we genuinely care for them, then their fears will be turned into fuel, and our team will be truly cohesive.
3. Buy-in
Has your team fully “bought in”? Do you have a clear mission and core values that people can embrace? People have an innate longing to be connected to something bigger than themselves. We must intentionally tap into this desire and they will get on the proverbial bus. When everyone is on board, there will be less stress, less friction, more common purpose, and the bus will travel faster and smoother. When everyone has settled in their minds and hearts that they are “all-in”, then everyone will be focused and determined to take another step.
Find your winning edge today by becoming a stronger leader and building a cohesive team within your family, your company, and your community, IN THAT ORDER.
I love to hear your success stories on how you are becoming a strong leader and building a cohesive team within the world around you!
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