Leaders Build Teams

FIVE MINUTE LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP™
An investment in Higher Achievement

PREPAREDNESS
• We realize that each of these begins the same way. Why? Because it works. Try it!
• Prepare and take action to be uninterrupted for at least five minutes
• Close your eyes. Pause. Take three, deep, slow breathes, while you clear your mind of everything else. (Really…it makes a difference!)
• Ask yourself: “What’s in it for me? (WIFM), if I improve my leadership?” List three answers.
ACTIVITY

Read the following slowly, really thinking about what it could mean to you. It’s less important that you agree, than that you understand and explore the concept FULLY.

A leader without a team is a lone wolf. Leadership is a team sport. Synergy requires community. Leadership is one part leader and nine parts team.
World-class leaders are less star musicians and much more conductors of a fine orchestra playing in exquisite harmony. Less big, dramatic actions than constant small “tweaks.”

If there ever was a time for the model of leadership where one individual gives orders to a bunch of mute, blind “followers”, it is not THIS time! Current conditions necessitate that we focus the leadership capacities of EVERYONE on the team toward a common vision of success, about which they’re all passionate.

Indeed, we can’t afford not to. As Peter Senge says "The fundamental characteristic of the relatively unaligned team is wasted energy"
Organizational excellence virtually always involves collaboration and synergy. Intrinsic motivation trumps extrinsic orders, incentives, and direction.

Arguably, the prime function of leadership is to create synergy from the disparate interests of individuals.
Do you have a team? Or a bunch of talented individuals?

REFLECTION
What is your initial, knee-jerk reaction to this concept?
Now, dig deeper. To what extent are leadership and team development connected?

SELF-ASSESSMENT
Honestly, how do you rate yourself in developing the capacities and synergy of your team?

PREPARING FOR ACTION
What can you do today to:
• Support your weaker players to learn more?
• Encourage your timid ones to speak up & become leaders?
• Urge your stars to share “best practices” with the team?
• Push for your veterans to help teach the rookies?
• Increase communication and collaboration throughout the team?
• Help the entire team become enthusiastic advocates for the same, shared vision of success?

ACTION PLAN
Identify one action you can take today (preferably right now!) to move toward implementation.
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List two things you can do within a week to bring the power of ACTION to the words and concept!
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Who else might you enlist to help you?

Who can you tell about your action plan, to help insure accountability?

What potential roadblocks to implementation might pop up? How can you circumvent them?

For a free, no-obligation assessment of your team’s strengths & vulnerabilities AND free recommendations for their improvement, email: info@peaktraining.com, or visit http://www.peaktraining.com/corp/Corporate-Retreats.html

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I hear and I forget...I see and I remember...I do and I understand.

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