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Welcome to Episode Five of the Tensions of Leadership: Leading Teams – Part 2, Shifting from Me-Ology to We-Ology!
Discussion guide from the Tensions of Leadership, Episode Five:
1. In Leading Teams Part 1 we talked about recalibrating yourself to lead teams, in part two, we talk about how to develop the team around you.
2. The tension of time, and how are relationship with time now has to shift. Time now has to be an investment in your people.
3. “You cannot think about taking time away from YOUR work to help others. Helping and serving others IS YOUR WORK!”
4. Relieve the tension from being a practitioner to now becoming a philosopher.
5. And you know have to worry about how your people are spending THEIR time.
6. The shift from being a “today” leader to becoming a “today AND tomorrow” leader. You are in the mix of a lot of things now, not just focused on your little world.
7. The tension of now having to worry about the organization is a difficult shift for many new leaders.
8. In addition to leading your direct reports AND serving the organization, you also now have to pay attention to peer-to-peer leaders, and be sure you are serving in cross-functional ways too.
9. Protecting your team, your peeps, may NOT be serving the organization well. And you have to be cognizant of this tension.
10. The tension of capacity. Do you have the capacity to handle all of this? And you have to teach capacity building to your team as well.
11. “Lack of capacity is the biggest reason most organizations do not make it to the next level.”
12. Composure is also important! Do you have the temperament to lead? Will you bring positive attributes to leadership? Or will you be negative?
13. You have to resolve issues at the point of contact, BEFORE they escalate.
14. Silos versus cross-functional collaboration. Mission critical to leader on behalf of the organization, especially as you are moving towards enterprise level leadership.
15. “Talent is an enterprise asset. Not yours.”
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About our host, Erica Peitler:
Erica is a Leadership Performance Coach who courageously partners with individuals, teams and organizations who want to realize their visions of success by transforming their leadership potential into visible, on the ground, breakthrough leadership performance!
With an engaging, provocative and straight forward approach, Erica inspires leaders to reach beyond their comfort level as they pursue becoming the performance based leaders they aspire to be in both their professional and personal life.
As a keynote speaker and author, Erica educates, entertains and enlightens audiences on leadership, transformational change and professional/personal growth initiatives.
Find Erica Peitler’s book here:
The essence of Leadership Rigor is creating change-ready leaders who can embrace challenges because they have the tools, models, and language to assess, structure, and facilitate aligned actions. They also have the mindset and emotional skills to lean into the change process despite its uncomfortable nature. By innovating on their preparedness first, these change-ready leaders are equipped to realize the growth in themselves and in their teams or organizations. Are you ready to take on your personal journey of Leadership Rigor?
Series co-host Todd Schnick is the Editor-In-Chief of intrepid.MEDIA and a media and content strategist. A former marketing strategist, lobbyist, and national political operative, Todd now lives and works in the Chicago Loop with his family. He is a writer, foodie, bibliophile, distance runner, and nearly full-time dog mom.
This series recorded LIVE from our Merchandise Mart studios in Chicago, Illinois! (Click on photo below for history of our studios!)
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