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Winning Teams Know to Trust Their Team Members

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I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. But setting goals in functional silos and then hoping that everything works itself out across the organization is an unlikely path to success. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further.

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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

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W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Doing so requires CEOs to not only reinvent themselves and their organizations but also to rethink their executive teams.

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Team Leader as Team Coach

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Teams go through mood changes. No doubt you’ve felt it after a great team success or alternatively, the gloom and doom when things do not go as planned. It’s a team experience. It’s mostly invisible, but it affects team performance. Team leader as coach is not new. On your team, is it loose? It’s in the air.

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4th and Goal Every Day

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The secret is that it is fourth and goal every day. Phil Savage of the Crimson Tide Sports Network, explains in 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection , “Alabama goes for it. They play to a standard set by Nick Saban and established by the team leaders.” What makes them so successful?

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Leading Thoughts for March 28, 2024

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Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals. Source: Becoming a Coaching Leader: The Proven System for Building Your Own Team of Champions II. And where do you get discernment? It comes with time in the coach’s seat.

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Ditch Lofty Outcome Goals and “Hit the Glove!”

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We may feel exhilarated when we set a big goal, but that soon gives way to anxiety. While we all want to get better, lofty goals don’t always help. There is a way to set goals and achieve them. He did it by getting his pitchers to scale back their goals from lofty to bite-sized, from outcome to process. How It Translates.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

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When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Former Navy SEAL commander Mark Divine trains athletes, SWAT teams, first responders, and aspiring SEALS to combine mental toughness with intuition and heart.