10 Tips that work… even in a pandemic
In difficult times it is easy for some bosses to regress. Leadership morphs from inspiring and leading the way, to “demanding” higher levels of performance. These regressive leaders stop thinking about motivating and slip into “command and control” mode, often beating up on people. “Just do it or you’re out of here.”
The fact that you are reading this briefing suggests you are not one of those types. Nevertheless, I don’t know any executive who doesn’t want to maximize the effectiveness of their teams on all levels: executive, mid-management, and workgroups.
How do you get talented people to work well together at optimum effectiveness? We’ll explore 10 tips that will help you focus your efforts on maintaining and advancing the performance of your team, even in the toughest of times. There are two key themes to ensuring team performance:
- Establishing the right team, with the best frameworks, and
- Facilitating maximum effectiveness of the team.
“Gettin’ good players is easy, getting’ ’em to play together is the hard part.”
Casey Stengel, fabled baseball coach
