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 of organizational teamship. I place as much value on teamship skills and operational principles as those for leadership. Teamship adds value to leadership in a similar way that a special infused ingredient adds remarkable flavour to an already superb olive oil - taking it from very good to exceptional.
Increasingly, the most effective leaders are those that understand teamship cultivates high performing teams focused on collaboration, building trust, and bringing together the widest array of perspectives and ideas for brain-storming and problem solving.
Teamship also encourages prioritizing departmental interdependencies over group-think and siloed self-interest mindsets and traditional behaviors. It is no coincidence that high-impact teams excel not only because of progressive leadership, but because of the teamship framework they operate within.
Leaders of all organization types and sizes are under immense pressure to perform and achieve results, but they simply can no longer do it alone. Whether they are peers or direct reports, leaders must seek input from high functional teams to consider their ideas, needs, and perspectives when setting goals and milestones.
The good news is that the teamship edge just needs to be uncovered, developed, and unleashed - from within!
UNTIL NOW, MAKING THE SHIFT TO A TEAMSHIP DRIVEN ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN THE LEAST CONSIDERED AND UNDER-LEAVERAGED OPPORTUNITY FOR ORGANIZATIONS TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS.
My role as a teamship partner is to provide the initial spark for leaders to discover and understand how teamship can foster positive change in their organization - before embarking on a tailored program engagement. Once the value is understood, the discussion commences on the most appropriate way forward, in alignment with the organization's vision, needs, budget, timeline, and level of commitment.
The BREAKOUTcx LIFT-UP Program (Leadership Infused by Focused Teamship Understanding Partnership) is not an out-of-the box, one size fits all process. Nor is the program reduced to a one-day team building session. It is a highly adaptable and flexible approach that starts where the organization and leaders are currently at and finishes when all expectations and goals are met by either, or all, of the high-impact teams, leaders, and organization as a whole. Programs range from a couple months to eighteen or more months.
By the time the work begins, the organization will be very clear on what they will get. Even though the 'how' is explicit and transparent, it is also emergent. How the program evolves is based on what it will ultimately take to achieve and exceed the goals - including the level of commitment and the degree in which the individuals, teams, and leaders are invested in the process.
I put everything possible into achieving success. And I guarantee results.
Check out more on the program by clicking here: LIFT-UP
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 co-elevating each other around: i) the value in celebrating individual innovative achievements, ii) the need to embrace failure as learning, and iii) that co-creation, radical collaboration, and emotional agility are positively contagious
... 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
Despite everyone's best efforts, if work is not working in your organization, I welcome the opportunity to answer your questions. Let's chat about the 'teamship infused leadership' framework and explore together how a tailored-to-suit development partnership (LIFT-UP) might help correct course.