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Building A Business Dream Team

Written by: Roger Ingbretsen

Article Overview: Building a business dream team will not happen simply because the CEO wishes it or because you have been provided some well-crafted concepts. The building of your dream team will become a reality when each individual in a leadership position decides to embrace a new style of leadership and become a “coaching leader.” The formation of your organizations dream team will come about as a result of your demonstrated commitment to take a stand on the effectiveness and excellence of your personal leadership and the leadership of others.

Building A Business Dream Team

Building a business dream team will not happen simply because the CEO wishes it or because you have been provided some well-crafted concepts. The building of your dream team will become a reality when each individual in a leadership position decides to embrace a new style of leadership and become a “coaching leader.” The formation of your organizations dream team will come about as a result of your demonstrated commitment to take a stand on the effectiveness and excellence of your personal leadership and the leadership of others.

Your challenge as a leader is to enter into true and open dialogue with your colleagues. Find out how much they are willing to put into going from good to great. You must stake your own credibility on your willingness to become a strong leader/coach. With a sense of passion, and through example, you need to encourage others to engage in a coaching leadership style. Your organizations leadership team should consider becoming good coaches for each other, each fully committed to the other’s success. Build a shared determination to collectively succeed at developing and coaching others. Challenge each other to become the top coaches of your dream team. You should not wait and see who is going to make the first move toward greatness. The stakes are too high.

Great coaching leadership, consistently bringing together and building a great team of talented people who are all working in the right positions, is essential in order to prepare for the challenges most organizations face in today’s economic climate. It is the people side of the equation that will build the great culture and the great environment necessary for the human capital of the enterprise to do its best work.

The leadership team needs to communicate the vision along with an evolving strategy so the future is clearly understood by all stakeholders. The discipline of great business acumen, along with great processes, will require constant development, understanding, and smart implementation. Finally, great effort needs to be “collectively” expended to constantly provide great innovation in all areas of your organization, as well as to unleash great customer service both internally and externally to the organization.

It should be noted that the process of going from good to great is not simply a serial process. It is not a checklist of a thousand things to do. It is, however, a complex process. For your organization to successfully build a great team and become a great organization maintaining sustainability and sustained growth, it will need to focus on the following five key areas.

1. Great People: (Players) Great coaching leaders need to be developed and talented players need to be in the right positions.

2. Business Acumen: (Playbook) All leaders and players must understand the bottom-line basics and be disciplined to installing and following solid well thought-out processes.

3. Clear Objective: (Strategy) The team must have a clear vision of the goal they are expected to achieve.

4. Knowledge: (Skill-Set) The team will win only when it has members with the right skills in the right positions performing in a winning cultural environment.

5. Action: (Execution) The team must be innovative, action driven and closely tied to their customers needs

All five of these key components must be driven in sequence — and at the same time! This holistic or integrated approach will lead to solid growth over time, because each category, although separate and distinct, builds on the others and collectively leads to a synergistic and positive impact on the organization. In a very basic approach, it can be said that people, with solid business acumen, plus clear objectives, with collective solid skills, plus action will lead to a great organization. However, it should ne noted that all of these components are evolving at the same time as the competencies of the organization grow. As each key component develops and grows, the impact becomes expediential, because the strength of the people, their business acumen, guided by clear objectives and using their skills and action will increase in virtually every part of the organization. The whole truly does become greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Complexity within an organization can best be described as the moving parts, points, and targets that drive the organization to be continually recreated. This continual recreation of the organization and its people leads to even more unusual discoveries, which in turn creates constant development and evolution of new patterns of organizational behavior. Understanding this is the key to seeing the building of a great team as an evolving process with key components. It is important to see the described team building model as constantly gaining momentum until the point of your next major breakthrough. The simultaneous use of all components of the model will help take your organization from good to great.

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