Does your company value teamwork? Does it also have a pool of high-potential talent preparing to take on more senior roles? If you answered yes to both questions, how you answer the next question may surprise you: Does your company consider the ability to build effective teams when identifying and developing the next generation of leaders?
Most companies today use teams to accomplish work. The more effective the teams, the higher performing the organization. Many companies are also planning for the future by identifying and developing high-potential or successor candidates. Yet very few companies today connect these two important elements – the ability to build effective teams and high-potential identification and development. Why not?
Leadership is still in many ways considered an individual sport. High potentials are identified based on their individual skills, abilities, attitudes, and behaviors. Rarely are they assessed on their ability to create and sustain highly effective teams. And if they are, it’s typically done in only a cursory fashion – like looking at team engagement scores. This is a low bar indeed despite the key importance of teams to organizational success.
Instead, we would offer that leadership is a team sport and the ability to create and sustain highly effective teams should be central to how high-potentials or succession candidates are both identified and developed. This can be easily done by using the Team Assessment Survey (TAS) - a tool which both scores the leader on their ability to build effective teams AND provides a roadmap for team development. These two things together are critical in organizations who rely so fundamentally on the need for effective teamwork.
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