Tag: Behavior

How Great Leaders Build Great Teams

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Teams are groups whose members have a clear sense of belonging, and who share responsibility for accomplishing tasks.’- Paolo Guenzi and Dino Ruta

When it comes to building a successful team,

‘No individual does anything until and unless he is first motivated to do so.’

‘One person’s perceptions of need cannot motivate another.’

‘Humans prefer mastery and control to ambiguity and uncertainty.’

‘If your subordinates believe that you’re honest and straightforward, they’ll be more inclined to trust you- and to believe their trust is well placed.’

‘Humans are motivated both to get ahead and to get along.’

‘Our behavior is governed by two types of interactions: those that come naturally (instincts) and those that are learned (conditioning).’

‘… Companies cannot succeed if their employees aren’t in alignment.’

‘Followers perform best if they know what’s expected of them.’

‘Leaders perform best if they’ve got enthusiastic buy-in from their followers.’

‘If people doing the work aren’t happy with their lots, it’s unlikely the organization for which they toil will thrive as it otherwise might.’

Source:

David Lahey (2015). Predicting Success: Evidence-Based Strategies to Hire the Right People and Build the Best Team

Managing Your Blindspots

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Blindspot: An unrecognized weakness of threat that has the potential to undermine a leader’s success.’

‘People who are smart and self-assured are often very skillful at justifying their thinking and behavior- to the point of being in denial about their weaknesses and the threats they face.’

‘Mistakes are the royal road to understanding blindspots, particularly when repeated over time and in different situations.’

‘Part of the skill in identifying and overcoming blindspots is to understand that some are the result of individual traits and others arise from situational factors.’

‘Leaders can assume they are aware of what is occurring around them when, in fact, they have partial, sometimes inaccurate, and often outdated views.’

‘There is some truth in the saying that the surest way to destroy a company is to give it ten years of unmitigated success.’

‘Leaders must strive to create a culture that promotes straight talk but also pay attention to the nuances of communication in the decision making process.’

‘The challenge is to remain focused on the decision that needs to be made while simultaneously paying attention to subtleties that can easily be lost in the heat of debate.’

‘Leaders need to listen openly before a decision is made and then become drivers of results once it is reached.’

‘One of the burdens of moving up is that the complexity of the decisions leaders face increases at the same time as their ability to reveal their vulnerabilities decreases.’

‘Successful leaders have a strong belief in their own abilities … the best and the brightest can easily come to believe that following anything other than their own convictions is foolish.’

‘The leader creates the team and the team then creates the leader– as a primary source of feedback and advice, it becomes a key influence on the leader’s thinking and behavior.’

Source:

Robert Bruce Shaw (2014). Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter