What Every Executive Should Know About Team Effectiveness
Senior executives, too, must learn team skills. Whether due to simple movement of individual performers into positions that require greater interaction within a team, or through wholesale adoption of a team-based strategy, organizations must cope with the reality that many executives face the challenge of mastering three new roles:
- Team Leader.
- Team Member.
- Developer of Team-oriented Successors.
Subtle leadership skills, such as executive team facilitation, are best learned through experience. Observation of effective team functioning is more important than reading numerous texts. Executives should have experience working effectively in teams before they select or develop their team-oriented successor.