Are you working in an organization where leaders are good at building team performance? Do the leaders in your organization create powerful teams?
One of the most powerful questions one can ask oneself is “How do I create teams that establish urgency and a clear direction?” Emotionally intelligent leaders create high performance teams that are laser focused on results.
Are you good at creating high performance teams? Do you inspire your team by setting clear goals? Are you adept at creating teams that produce intended results?
Eight Keys to Building Team Performance
Katzenbach and Smith in their books about teams (The Wisdom of Teams; Teams at the Top) talk about the essential disciplines of effective teams:
Here are eight key approaches for building team performance that Katzenbach and Smith found in their research of high performing teams.
1. Establish urgency, demanding performance standards and direction.
2. Select members for skill and skill potential, not personality.
3. Pay particular attention to first meetings and actions.
4. Set some clear rules of behavior.
5. Set and seize upon a few immediate performance-oriented tasks and goals.
6. Challenge the group regularly with fresh facts and information.
7. Spend lots of time together.
8. Exploit the power of positive feedback, recognition and reward.
Working with a seasoned executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Bar-On EQ-i and CPI 260 can help you become a transformational leader who builds powerful teams that establish urgency and achieve results. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence, and who inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of the company.
Why it often happens that people with high level of IQ are the losers in their social life? Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more important than IQ? These are the most frequent asked questions. In fact, emotional abilities is the key to success in your personal life and business. Recent medical researches have proved that emotions are much more important than it seems to us. In the language of success, your emotional ability - is ability to evaluate, use, understand and cope with your emotions and the emotions of people in order to achieve the desired results. It is very important and useful skill.
Posted by: Valencia | August 21, 2008 at 11:20 AM