Same people, same capability. A different team. Here is what changes.Hey, how are you? Over the past few weeks there has been a theme to the newsletters, and this is the last one in these, so less story, more straight talk and next week perhaps a slightly different angle. Now then, a leadership team that has become one team feels different before it looks different. Less comfortable, more honest. Meetings where more gets said and less gets carried out of the room unspoken. If nothing feels different yet, nothing has changed yet. The feeling is your leading indicator, and the performance follows it. Here is what it looks like on the other side, in the words of people who did the work. One Operations Director, afterwards: “it brought us closer as a group and created space for open, honest feedback on how we are perceived, how we manage, and how we communicate”. Read that again. Not we did a nice course. Space created for the honest feedback that was not possible before. That is a team that has learned to be one. Notice what is missing from it. Nobody mentions a framework. Nobody got more capable. These were capable people before. The team changed, so the same people started leading as one, and the organisation started to feel it: clearer decisions, shared ownership, the load lifting off one person. So, if any of these recent issues has had your team’s name on it, the silos, the agreement that doesn’t hold, the work only your team can do that it never gets to, then you already know the conversation that is waiting. The question was never whether it is needed. It is who starts it. That is a leader’s job. The question for your commute, and I would like a real answer: What would your organisation experience differently if your leadership team led as one? And then after you think about it, bring that answer to a 20-minute conversation. I take on a limited number of teams, and every one of them starts here. Book your conversation: Let’s Chat. You bring the honest picture of your team, and if I can’t help, I’ll say so by minute five. Not ready to talk yet? Start with the scorecard instead: Access Here Have fun Lee Co-Founder of Get Knowledge Author of The People Puzzle National Coach of the Year |
One team feels different before it looks different
