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Insights on Leadership Team Training
Championing Business Mission, Vision, and Strategies for Organizational Leadership
Leadership team members should put the mission, vision and strategies of their organizations front of mind for organizational leadership and performance.
They should meet regularly to identify, agree and address important issues underlying their organization’s strategic
and competitive situation. One problem that may get in the way of this is the difficulty of leadership team members to think beyond their departmental functions and objectives or the specific business functions and objectives
by which they are primarily judged or rewarded. Including performance metrics that reward team leadership to foster harmonious functional interdependies across teams and inter-team mission attainment would minimize this problem.
Employing an Integrated Leadership Team Training and Development System
Adopt a leadership team training system that integrates training for leading high performing teams with facilitation of harmonious functional interdependencies across teams for joint attainment of specific goals and objectives, and delivering on shared strategies.
Such a system would promote productive engagements of cross-functional teams and their leaders on workplace related issues as well as buiness and strategies that help deliver the mission and vision of the organization. At individual team levels, the system should incorporate insightful and strategic leadership team analysis—and include assessment of team members' perspectives
team context and workplace culture and climate. This should be followed by action plans to adddress team inefficiencies—e.g., factors mitigating high-performance—and organization workshops, roundtables, and workouts to facilitate team problem solving and strategy development, team commitment, effective synergy of personal actualizing attributes within the team, optimization of organizational systems, and harmonious functional interdependies across teams.
Embarking on Regular Training in Team Building and Team Leadership
To be high-performing, leadership teams should be nurtured. They should be nurtured on thinking about, planning on, and working together on, what is most important for the organization’s vision
and competitiveness.
Regular strategic team leadership workshops, workouts and retreats should be organized for team members and team leaders, covering such issues and topics as the following.
1. Establishment of organization-wide priorities—and making sure that departmental goals and objectives are aligned with them.
2. Deployment of resources for competitive advantage, and for meeting the organization’s business priorities.
3. Planning and collaboratively coordinating programmes of organizational development, transformation and breakthrough performance.
4. Designing strategy-system-process fit to foster organization-wide responsiveness to change and business challenges and optimizing the organizational culture as appropriate.
5. Modelling corporate leadership, accountability, and responsibility in their departmental functions.
6. Reviewing and re-engineering role relationships and strategic communications to foster vision-ownership, joint accountability, and self-leadership across the organization.
7. Jointly developing and updating metrics of the organization's performance.
8. Developing and reviewing the organization's performance scorecard.
