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Team Cohesion through understanding roles and understanding each other.
Senior leadership teams face many pressures that make things difficult. A team can function better if you pay attention to how well it sticks together - how cohesive it is. This depends on clarity of roles, rules of engagement and mutual understanding.
Use the tools below to identify the best action to build your team's effectiveness.
Conduct a high level needs analysis for your leadership team.
In any organisation there are distinct levels of task to be undertaken. When the organisation is small or closely held, these different tasks may be performed by the same small group of people. This might be the owners, an executive board or the equity partners.
Use this tool to focus your team on how you define these task levels, how you make sure you address them separately, and how you can improve on your approach.
Simple needs analysis frameworkDecide on the mindset that will help your team
A senior leadership team has to think. In particular, when members of the team also run a unit of the organisation, it's easy to confuse the thinking styles between the two roles.
These tools are a checklist for how senior leaders think, both on their own and when interacting in the team's decision making meetings.
I've listed aspects of a leadership team's mindset that commonly arise when teams are developing their charter or rules of behaviour. Work through them, rank them and add what you jointly decide is necessary for your team to be effective. This depends on your organisation's culture, the strategy and the challenges you have to deal with.
The positive and negative mindsets of a team