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Strategies for team leaders

Strategies for team leaders

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Strategies for team leaders

- Throughout this course I've been covering the critical considerations needed to set your team on the right path. Now, I want to give you some key strategies to help you get all your teams to gate four, and peak performance. First, make your teams the right size. Study suggests that the ideal size is between four and eight people. Three people is unstable because it creates a two against one dynamic, and nine or more actually yields diminishing productivity because people feel less accountable for their efforts. Second, start leading early. In those initial meetings, teams are establishing their trajectory to either good or bad norming. They're forming their sense of physical, and psychological safety with each other, which become the ground on which trust is built or destroyed. This is why team training, and team building are so important, and an investment that pays off tenfold down the road. Third, bring…

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