Effective teamwork requires more than group participation—it demands strong communication, coordination, and mutual support. Based on Hoegl’s Teamwork Quality Construct, six key elements define team success: communication, coordination, balanced contributions, mutual support, shared effort, and cohesion. Additionally, Amy Edmondson identifies four essential behaviors for teaming: speaking up, collaboration, experimentation, and reflection. This weeks video explores how leaders can foster these behaviors by creating a safe, supportive environment. By encouraging open dialogue, shared problem-solving, and continuous learning, teams become more innovative and resilient. True teamwork is a conscious, dynamic process that must be nurtured for long-term success.
Embracing Problem Solving Skills
The reality is that no matter your role or the industry you work in, you will encounter problems. How you handle them will go a long way in determining your level of success. It will also determine how you manage the relationships and shared goals you have with your team and/or organization. This weeks Vlog provides a tool that is a simple model for problem solving…
leadership is a Journey
In this weeks Vlog post I explore how becoming a leader is really a journey and one that can differenciate a manager from a leader. It is that moment when a manager recognizes their own gaps in knowledge or ability, and while working on improving their own competencies, finds members of their team who can fill them. Not only has that individual shown leadership by being transparent about their own capabilities, but they have solicited the help of the team to complete them and have demonstrated that learning is a continuing process — that by demonstrating their own process of continuous learning, they become an example for the others to follow.
Asking for feedback
Here’s an interesting question for you as a leader, as a manager, or even as a supervisor. When was the last time you asked your direct reports for feedback on how your communications, or your actions are affecting them? This weeks Video Blog explores the impact of not checking in with your team on how your behaviour may be impacting them.
Leadership Is Not What I Thought It Was
Our personal experiences with leaders, which in most cases are managers, colour our expectations. If we have had the opportunity to have different jobs and or roles we have the ability to experience different kinds of bosses. Over time, we get to find out what we like in a boss and what we don’t like. All these things inform our view of what leadership looks like – to us.