Why does it seem like you face an interpersonal challenge with a team member every single day?
Someone is not taking responsibility for their behavior. Your boss isn’t supporting you. A team member is undermining the leader. It’s always something!
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6 Ways Structure Will Help Your Team Grow
For much of my life, rules annoyed me. Regulation and policies were “inconvenient” and slowed progress. My perspective was, “Rules were made to be broken”. Some may refer to my viewpoint as visionary or creative. However, many other perceived my actions as it maverick, disrespectful, even rebellious. Whatever you call it, I have since learned to appreciate and place high value on structure (some might say that I appreciate it a little too much now).
Communication and Structure
Growing leaders and organizations realize that communication and structure are both critical components of teamwork. Each of the four organizations I worked with over the past 20 years experienced significant growth by addressing one or both of these areas. Some needed to give more attention to communication while others needed to address deficiencies in structure.
Talk is cheap – Communicate
To effectively communicate I occasionally have conversations with our team leaders about two critical components of teamwork – communication and structure. Recently, I had the opportunity to see effective communication at work…
One evening our office sent out a carefully drafted email to several thousand prospective students. Within hours, students began responding to the email resulting in three straight days of record applications. I was reminded of several principles of communication that are critically important to any organization seeking to accomplish its mission and vision…