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Building High Performance Executive Teams
In a previous article titled Building Top Teams: What it Takes, I outlined the five basic conditions executives need to create and provide for ensuring the success of teams:
- Establish a clear and compelling direction
- Create an appropriate structure
- Select the right people
- Support the top team
- Provide development
While those five conditions are essential for top team success, there is one additional component: Keep team members focused on self-improvement vs. other improvement.
Rather than building and fine-tuning their own competencies, sometimes executives point their fingers at other people’s weaknesses because it’s easier. But as one CEO I worked with so aptly stated, “The speed of the pack is dependent on the speed of the leader.” He knew that if he worked on enhancing his leadership capabilities, he would both set a good example and help accelerate his team’s performance.
Use a short feedback survey to guide your team’s development
There’s one method for focusing on self-improvement that I recommend to executives: have each team member conduct a mini-feedback survey and then use that data to help…
