I have been listening to the Andy Stanley podcasts (http://andystanley.com/). The power of team - Part 1,2 & 3. (highly recommend his other podcasts as well)
Some comments from him: High performance teams are composed of people with extraordinary clarity around three things, what, why and how, along with a strong predisposition towards execution. What are we doing? (compelling action oriented statement - what is the win?) This is not a mission statement. You celebrate a win. Why are we doing it? What goes undone if we fail. i.e. why did the founder start this company/division/non profit/etc? How do we do it here? Select performance orientated people and position them for maximum impact. Hire doers not thinkers. Hiring question: What have you done? If you have the right people on the bus the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away. The right people don't need to be tightly managed or fired up, great vision without great people is irrelevant. Begin staff meetings: what happened in the last week that people did to help you being successful. (this creates inter-dependence). Start with 4 questions: What is the problem your team has come together to solve? What is the task your team has come together to accomplish What is the opportunity come together to leverage? What is the what around which everything should be organized? Constant evaluation of what has been orchestrated. Events must be evaluated. At end of evaluation: What is bothering you? What are you most concerned about? There are critical events that are essential to the org. There must be feedback loops. Some comments from me :) "Team" could be small team, department, division, entire company, entire non-profit, etc I propose LOPSA comes up with a "What and why" statement. The recent board elections showed we do not have extraordinary clarity around a "What are we doing?" statement. I know this has been an ongoing discussion, this context may help... Thanks Craig _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
