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Is There a Team in Your ELT?

The Bailey Group | July 13, 2015 | Blog | Leadership Team Development | 1 minute read

disgruntledteamWhat’s an ELT? An ELT is an Enterprise or Executive Leadership Team. Regardless of what you call it, it’s a team. And if your team is causing problems for you, it can be incredibly frustrating as well as difficult to pinpoint what is at the root of these problems. If you want to break this cycle of frustration, I suggest you get back to basics.

The most important question to answer is this: Is my ELT really a team? A team is defined as a group of individuals who come together around the common purpose and work together to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Inherent in this definition is the assumption that these outcomes could not be achieved by any one team member acting in isolation. There is interdependency amongst team members.

Admittedly, this is a big question. Let’s break it down.

  1. What is the purpose of your team?
  2. Can your team members articulate this purpose?
  3. What is your team trying to accomplish?
  4. What are the specific goals and measures associated with what you are trying to accomplish?
  5. What role does each team member play in the achievement of these goals?
  6. What are the rules of engagement for your team? For example, how do you communicate? When do you meet and for what purpose? How are decisions made and problems solved?
  7. How well do your team members get along? Are relationships collegial and productive or strained?
  8. What is your role as leader of this team? How are you holding team members accountable to achieve goals?

 
As you answer these questions, you will begin to see where the breakdown is happening. Once you’ve isolated the source of your problems, you can begin to address them.

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