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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

90% of what we do in an organization happens through collaborative effort, making the team the most important production unit. Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Are you leading your team with the appropriate style? Sounds complicated?

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? Early successes back up your goals, can help persuade the non-committal within the organization, and encourage those already on board to push for more progress.

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Different Types of Managers: Which one are you?

HR Digest

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. An explanation of the structural format of management and managers.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Someone who has consistently experienced success in leadership roles has a much better chance of success than someone who has not. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. One Size Fits All Leadership Style : Great leaders are fluid and flexible in their approach.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

Put simply; the most productive teams have the best leadership. To further my point, you can examine any organization and you’ll consistently find that the the best performing units have the best leadership, and the worst performing units have leadership challenges to overcome. What say you???

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If a conflict does flair up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus.

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