10 ingredients for a high-performance leadership team _ civil + structural ENGINEER

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10 ingredients for a high-performance leadership team

March 2014 (/toc/332) Columns AEC COACH

Mark Goodale

Mission statements, vision statements, market strategies, annual goals, and action plans are all key components of comprehensive strategic plans. An

when well-crafted, they serve as a roadmap toward a compelling future.

Yet it all adds up to a big fat zero when the team charged with creating that plan and carrying it out doesnt t rust one another, wont say whats on their

minds, wont buy in, wont be held accountable, and care more about their own personal agendas than the firms results. A strategic plan, on its best da

is worth the paper its written on. But the activity of strategic planning can be invaluable if you have a high-performance leadership team in place.

Here are 10 ingredients:

1. Trust Trust is neither spontaneous nor arbitrary. It is built when we show real concern about the well-being of others and manage our commitments rigorously. Trust is a

mood. We judge that a person is sensitive to our concerns and will fulfill his or her promise. It is this trust that is the bedrock of a high-performance leadership team.

2. Collaboration Collaboration is thinking with others, helping others, and learning with others. High-performance leadership teams create a playground for developing the

practices of collaboration.

3. Efficient problem-solving High-performance leadership teams practice a scientific thinking approach that emphasizes problem definition and results in a) working on the

right problems, and b) reducing waste. They dont just see problem, solve problem, move onto the next problem. They only work on things that matter.

4. Sound decision-making High-performance leadership teams arrive at sound decisions as a cohesive team by using decision-making methods (such as Choosing ByAdvantages) that are statistically superior to other, more traditional methods such as pros and cons.

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5. Bringing the outside world in The A/E and environmental consulting industry can be provincial. We seem to learn only from those in our discipline or profession. Few

people have practices for learning from those outside the industry. But high-performance leadership teams make a habit of engaging more broadly in the world around them a

they consistently innovate as a result.

6. The power of language Traditional use of language puts emphasis on facts, the representation of facts, building models, and communicating about the truth of claims. Hig

performance teams understand another dimension of language where it is used to collaborate with others, negotiate with each other, and make things happen.

7. Solid assessments As much time as is given to decision making, at least twice as much time (and often much more than that) needs to be given to making assessments.

High-performance leadership teams know that if they are sloppy in making assessments, their decisions are no better.

8. Attentiveness High-performance leadership teams understand the paradigm of taking care of others while taking care of themselves. They get the nuance between being

selfless and being attentive. They produce bigger results by garnering the support of others rather than throwing themselves on grenades.

9. Reliable commitments Most of us are so interested in getting our requests satisfied that we latch on to the first utterances of a would-be performer, thinking we got the

promise we were looking for. All too often we receive just the opposite. The individual is trying not to promise, but doing a very bad job even of that. High-performance teams

master the skill and teach it to others, leading to increased success working not only in the business, but on it as well.

10. Ability to produce gratitude High-performance teams routinely produce gratitude in the course of doing client work and cooperating with others. They instill a culture of

commitment in their working relationships, allowing them to focus on what they are building together while reducing the stress associated with attempting to balance trade-offs o

individual agendas and interests.

Get hearts and heads in a good place and great things will follow.

Mark Goodaleis principal with Morrissey Goodale LLC in Newton, Mass. Morrissey Goodale LLC is a management consulting and research firm that serves the AEC industry. H

can be contacted at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).


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