LEADING YOUR TEAM --- HOW TO INVOLVE AND INSPIRE TEAMS
by Andrew Leigh and Michael Maynard. Nicholas Brealey, 1996
1) Survival kit (p1-19)
[1] What price theories?
[2] Leaders are made, not born!
Being a successful team leader is: (p5)
(1) Taking responsibility for the team's performance
(2) Being yourself
(3) Developing a guiding purpose that excites you and others
(4) Persistently pursuing your guiding purpose
(5) Expanding your own self-expression
(6) Listening to your inner voice
(7) Listening to your inner voice
(8) Learning from those who can help you
(9) Making things happen that you care about
(10) Not ascribing success or failure to external
circumstances nor taking sole credit for it
[3] You as a leader
[4] No one best way
[5] Goals
[6] Productivity
[7] Team development
[8] Something special
[9] Problem people
(1) Judging the leader --- team leaders must be evaluated for their
effectiveness.
(2) Organizations should set a "baseline" for performance and
those who fail to reach it must improve or be demoted or fired!
(3) Over-controlling leaders should not survive!
[10] Inter-team working
[11] Being adaptable
[12] To team or not to team
[13] Multicultural teams
[14] Team characteristics
[15] Strategic overview
(1) The one single factor that determines whether or not a "team leader"
will succeed or fail as a leader can be summarized as "Keep your eye on the ball!"
(2) If you take your attention off your work team --- people will feel neglected, unrecognized
and unfulfilled; unresolved conflicts will break out when you least expect them; relationships
will deteriorate and affect performance; and work will be done poorly and employees will
leave sadly: either in actually or in terms of their commitment to the mission of your organization.
(3) What is a group? A team? Are the following characteristics "strong"
or "weak"?
Shared values
Interdependence
Feelings expressed
Commitment
Interpersonal skills
Consistency
Intensity
Trust
Conflict resolution
Listening
Consensus
Cooperation
Focus on group processes
2) How to run an inspired team meeting (p20-37)
3) How to give inspired team briefings (p38-50)
4) How to set inspiring team goals (p51-66)
5) How to grow self-managing teams (p67-79)
6) How to support your team's development (p80-97)
7) How to review your team's progress (p98-117)
8) HOw to ask for the moon and get it (p118-129)
9) How to inspire change in behavior (p130-147)
10) How to encourage inter-team working (p148-154)
11) How to be an adaptable leader (p155-167)
12) How to harness a team's power (168-184)
13) How to survive multicultural teams (p184-199)
14) Team characteristics (p200-205)
15) A strategic view of teams (p206-218)
16) Twenty team tips that work (p219-222)
[1] Leadership
[2] Inspiration
[3] Task and process
[4] Listening
[5] Deadlines
[6] Goals
[7] Challenge
[8] Feelings
[9] Relationships
[10] Meetings
[11] Agendas
[12] Chairing
[13] Tasks
[14] Celebrate
[15] Chunk it
[16] Transition
[17] Minutes --- good teams keep action minutes which show everyone:
(1) What was decided?
(2) Who will do what?
(3) By when?
[18] Delegate
[19] Blockages
(1) What specifically can I do --- as team leader --- to make the
team's job easier, more enjoyable, more satisfying?
(2) What specifically can we do --- as team members --- to help
our team leader become more effective and achieve our team work goals better?
[20] Vision --- the team leader must routinely check that everyone on the
work team holds the same picture of what "team success" looks
and feels like --- if it were achieved!
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