Leadership And Teamwork: The Secret Sauce to Business Success
Strong, dominant team effort is facilitated by a leader who has a clear direction and the capacity to influence his or her team to work toward the realization of a vision. This point is illustrated nicely in the article “World-Class Teams” by David Kirk.
The leader is not intimidated in the least by the competence of his or her team. Rather, a robust, confident leader involves his or her colleagues in a conversation concerning exactly what high production and superior performance look like, just what is required to perform as well as complete the task. Furthermore, the leader motivates and empowers the team to pursue self-investment and self-improvement consistently.
Let us continue by breaking all that down into parts so that the leader can understand exactly how to achieve those outcomes.
Appointing The Leader
We begin with a crystal-clear, in-charge appointed leader. I believe without a defined, in-charge leader, there is no team, only a group of people with no framework to function. There has to be somebody who is in charge and hopefully makes the best choices.
