63: Becoming a leadership team beats being a team of leaders - with Dr Pauline Lee

Go To Grow - with Melissa MacGowan

Melissa and Leadership/Teams expert Dr Pauline Lee chat about why it is well worth teams doing "the work" to become a leadership team rather than a team of leaders. What can your team do if it is clear on why it exists? How energising is it to be on a team that is headed in the same direction, is supportive and achieving fantastic outcomes. Dr Pauline Lee shares a real team journey of increasing impact and shifting behaviour which reminds us of the importance of trust and authenticity and helps show us how to get there.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:

🔸 A team has higher levels of effectiveness and performance. A working group can serve a purpose like a task force or committee).

🔸 It is essential that a team knows why it exists

🔸 Despite stated commitment to being authentic to benefit the team, hidden competing commitments such as playing it safe to look good prevent change (immunities to change)

🔸 Surfacing the individual and collective 'stories' helps the team break away from habits and patterns of thinking that are not serving the team

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀:

Dr Pauline Lee: www.leargas.com.au/

Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/hgse100/story/changing-better#:~:text=Based%20on%2030%20years%20of,distortions%20that%20keep%20you%20from

Scaling Leadership by Robert J Anderson: https://scalingleadership.com/

The Wisdom of Teams by John Katzenbach: https://hbr.org/1993/03/the-discipline-of-teams-2

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