Healthy teams allow every idea a chance to live…
The healthiest teams don’t contain an idea killer…
Healthy teams:
Brainstorm
Analyze
Test drive
Push back
Critique
Debate
Challenge
Every idea…
But healthy teams remain open-minded about an idea until it’s proven to be a bad idea…
Knowing that…
As a leader, or even as a team member, we constantly have to make decisions. Great leaders understand the power of decision-making and learn to use this power wisely.
In simple terms, leaders should consider two methods of decision-making. Some decisions can be arbitrary decisions and others need to be calculated decisions. Knowing which type of decision making to use at a given time will help you be a better leader.
I know leaders who make very quick, instant decisions only to grow to regret them. (This leader being one.)
Here are 7 characteristics of each type decision-making process:
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One of the biggest challenges for any organization is to attract and retain leaders. Yesterday I posted 7 reasons leaders tend to leave an organization. (Read that post HERE.) The goal then is to find ways to keep a leader energized to stay with the team. I never want to stop someone from pursuing a better opportunity, but I don’t want to send them away because I didn’t help them stay.
Tweet Leader, do you want to encourage cooperation on the team you lead? Do you want people to get along, support one another, and join forces to achieve the vision?…
Tweet Chances are, if you’ve served on very many teams, you’ve served on one which is dysfunctional. It appears to me we have many to choose from in the organizational…
