All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence by Suzanne Bates

Author:Suzanne Bates
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2016-03-03T14:00:00+00:00

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GETTING BEYOND “STORMING”

It’s been well documented that 60 percent of leadership teams fail to advance beyond the storming stage. There are a number of potential underlying causes, and there are implications for how the ExPI may be a way of mitigating or solving these problems.

We have developed our own set of approaches to assessing the stages of a team’s development, not limited to the ExPI but also encompassing observation and the use of other assessment tools as well as interviews with internal and external stakeholders. We assessed our medical devices team to be stuck in a ping-pong pattern between forming and storming.

The reasons a team gets stuck can be related back to the Challenge-Development Curve, which is familiar to you by now as a way of describing inflection points for individuals. Groups hit them, too. Without intervention, the medical devices team was destined to decompensate.

The team members had to suspend their current ways of thinking and hit the pause button on their debates to get perspective on how to get things done as a team. They had to calmly consider how to prioritize projects. Through this process they would learn about managing conflict, collaborating, and owning decisions together. It’s hard work, but it’s worth it! Research on team development and performance indicates that teams that stay together over time develop a performance advantage.

Of course as time moves on, it is not unusual for new team members to join and others to leave. These are also inflection points that should be respected, as they may mean the team will have to cycle back through the stages briefly to again reach higher levels of performance. There is certainly a good argument to be made that periodic infusions of new blood, while sometimes requiring more effort, provide the group with fresh perspectives and potentially additional strengths it can appreciate and leverage.

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