20 habits of high-performing leadership teams
<p>Here are 14 signs that your leadership team might not actually be a well-functioning team:</p>
<ol>
<li>Being merely a bundle of ‘reporting lines’ without shared work</li>
<li>Top leader(s) chairs their meeting and speaks most</li>
<li>Constant rabbit-holing and talking past each other</li>
<li>Spend most of their time reviewing PowerPoints</li>
<li>Members have many 1:1s with each other outside shared meeting time</li>
<li>Their meeting is canceled when the top leader isn’t present</li>
<li>Pleasing the leader, optics to get a promotion</li>
<li>Top leader(s) have the ‘final say’ on all decisions</li>
<li>Are involved in status update marathons</li>
<li>Are in endless meetings that could have been async emails/chat/videos</li>
<li>Maintains <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7061976434625388545/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">endless lists of ‘priorities’</a> that are mere ‘wishlists’</li>
<li>A mindset of striving for perfection, <a href="https://jurriaankamer.medium.com/bring-your-strategy-to-life-by-riding-a-bike-d99b38c25f41" rel="noopener">planning & controlling</a></li>
<li>Elephants in the room are left unaddressed</li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jurriaankamer_as-a-leader-you-may-feel-that-the-mindset-activity-7058717595343974400-k7sg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Blaming your people</a> for the lack of results</li>
</ol>
<p>Now, contrast this with the best ones I’ve ever seen:</p>
<h1><strong>Deciding</strong></h1>
<p>1. Ask <a href="https://medium.com/the-ready/create-an-empowered-organization-using-participatory-governance-b5dd2ed20161" rel="noopener">clarifying questions</a> before reacting<br />
2. Ask: ‘<a href="https://jurriaankamer.medium.com/accelerate-your-decision-making-with-this-powerful-sentence-38a58bb8db36" rel="noopener">is it safe-to-try</a>’ instead of ‘is it perfect’?<br />
3. Use a different process for <a href="https://jurriaankamer.medium.com/jeff-bezos-advice-on-decision-making-will-help-you-accelerate-and-reduce-costs-e9014c0ac7f0" rel="noopener">reversible and irreversible</a> decisions<br />
4. Clarity on which types of decisions need group consent and which don’t</p>
<p><a href="https://jurriaankamer.medium.com/20-traits-of-stellar-leadership-teams-12213d3ce8e"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>