TEAMSHIP INFUSED LEADERSHIP
TEAMSHIP INFUSED LEADERSHIP
Teamship and leadership are not opposites or even divergent. In fact, they are closely connected, with high-performing leaders and teams influencing and shaping each other. The roles of leadership and teamship are both outcomes and drivers of success and need to align and synergize to enhance performance, effectiveness, and value.
The leader is the individual who makes decisions and takes responsibility, while leadership is the method by which those decisions are executed, motivating and guiding others within the organization. This dynamic parallels the relationship between team and teamship. A team is a group of cross-functional individuals brought together to fulfill a common purpose, while teamship—the essence of how they work together—reflects the capacity of an organization to establish, promote, and support a holistic collaborative framework for team behaviors, norms, and performance to flourish within the organization.
"Teamship is engineered for today's volatile world. While the world has elevated respect and admiration for the image of a great leader, large and once successful organizations and companies are disrupted and toppled by start-ups with founder teams that have teamship born into their everyday behaviours."
Keith Ferrazzi, Author - Never Lead Alone, 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship
I'm a huge advocate for organizational 'teamship'. I place as much value on teamship skills and operational principles as those for leadership. Increasingly, the most effective leaders are those that emphasize collaboration, co-elevation, and departmental interdependencies over group think and siloed self-interest mindsets. Great teams excel not only because of progressive leadership, but also because of the teamship framework they operate within.
Think of teamship as an extra power source running your organization.
Now reflect on the benefits and effectiveness of a four-wheel drive vehicle versus two-wheel drive vehicle. In the beginning, an four-wheel drive vehicle may not be a key requirement. But as you encounter increasing inclement weather and difficult terrain, the 'not necessary' changes to 'nice-to-have' and then becomes a 'critical need.'
In today's BANI world, organization leaders are under immense pressure to perform and achieve results, but they simply can no longer do it alone. The good news is that adding the additional power - now a 'critical need', already exists within the organization. The extra power of Teamship just needs to be uncovered, developed, and unleashed.
UNTIL NOW, MAKING THE SHIFT TO A TEAMSHIP DRIVEN ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN THE LEAST CONSIDERED AND UNDER-LEAVERAGED OPPORTUNITY FOR ORGANIZATIONS TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE, EFFECTIVENESS, AND VALUE.
My role as a BREAKOUTcx Teamship Partner is to provide the spark for leaders to discover and understand the value teamship can foster in their organization - before embarking on a teamship infused leadership development program. The program is not an out-of-the box, one size fits all process. It is a highly adaptable and flexible approach that starts where the organization and leader are currently at - and reaches success milestones based on agreed upon KPIs, assessments, budget, and urgency. Before the work begins, the organization will be very clear on what they will get. The 'how' will emerge and potentially evolve depending on what it takes to achieve and exceed the goals - plus the level of commitment and how invested the individuals, teams, and leaders are to the process.
Together, we build a teamship success partnership supported by a co-developed and program structure or container. The program is underpinned by an flexible internationally recognized team coaching framework with stress-tested teaming experience and acumen. I put everything possible into achieving success and guarantee results.
I encourage leaders to begin their teamship journey by embracing a co-elevating operating principle in their organization. When people co-elevate with one another, colleagues become trusted teammates - at any team level. Supported by the solidifying teamship framework, teams inherently become more collaborative, resilient, agile, and acquire heightened foresight.
Research and experience demonstrates that well coached, high-impact teams not only succeed within their own terms of reference, but they can co-elevate the entire organization. When organizations are able to synergize leadership and teamship, individual benefits beyond the core teams are realized: heightened alignment with organization purpose and culture, work effectiveness and motivation, and personal/professional growth.
HIGH IMPACT TEAMS THRIVE IN A TEAMSHIP ECOSYSTEM AND INHERENTLY DRIVE CHANGE :
... by embracing a diverse and inclusive workplace culture that encourages a variety of perspectives, experiences, and problem-solving approaches leading to increased creativity, smart risk management, and innovation
... by creating an authentic team connection, a team energy, and a team mindset that together create a collaborative and fearless drive to go the extra mile and produce better outcomes
... by replacing a stagnant reactive/coping mindset with a proactive and predictive one that builds on a teamship culture of creativity, courage, and collective initiative
... by prioritizing continuous professional and personal learning, development, growth, and a co-accountability
... by employing dynamic resource adjustments and corrections to address continuous changes, threats, and opportunities - including tapping into support and resources external to the team (teaming out)
... by challenging each other to embrace risk, conflict, and uncertainty as laid out in the team-generated charter - and underpinned by trust, safety, candor, and experimentation
... by revealing : i) the value in celebrating individual innovative achievements, ii) the need to embrace failure as learning, and iii) that co-elevation, radical collaboration, and emotional agility are positively contagious
Despite everyone's best efforts, if work is not working in your organization, I welcome the opportunity to introduce the 'teamship infused leadership' framework and explore together how a tailored-to-suit development partnership might help correct course.