GLN 2023 - LearnAbout - Leadership and Teamwork

[Paul Terlemezian]

Session Leader: Paul Terlemezian November 10, 2023

Session Leader: John Torres November 17, 2023

• Is there any doubt about the importance of Leadership and Teamwork?
• Is there any lack of information about how to lead or how to enable teamwork?
• Is the combination abundant? scarce? immeasurable? paradoxical?

The format of this session will be:

1. John and Paul will explain what they wish to learn about - and why
2. Each of you will be asked why you attended - to learn? to teach? something else?
3. John and Paul will guide the session around what they are willing to learn from you

Topic: GLN 2023 - LearnAbout - Leadership and Teamwork
Time: Nov 10, 2023 and November 17, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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[Paul Terlemezian]

Paul will lead the session on November 10th, which will emphasize his perspectives on leadership and teamwork. The success of this session will be measured by how many people attend John's session on November 17th, and invite someone they know so that both engage with John's perspectives on leadership and teamwork.

This format will allow you to assess the effectiveness of the leadership and teamwork exhibited by John and Paul.

[John Torres]

Thank you for getting the conversation started Paul.  I would like to add a couple of other questions for folks to consider.

• What is the impact of a leadership team functioning as a cohesive team?
• What is the impact to an organization if all levels of leadership were functioning as cohesive leadership teams? Frontline, mid-level, C-Suite?
• How is it possible to have cohesive leadership teams at all levels of an organization if there is constant leadership churn? What needs to exist to enable this?
• Is there an opportunity in the field of Leadership Development to focus on Leadership Team Development?

[Paul Terlemezian]

Great questions, John.

I wonder if we can agree on what it means to be "cohesive?"

How is cohesiveness created?

How is this cohesiveness sustained when the solution requires separate entities (teams, departments, organizations, companies, countries) to be cohesive?

[Stephanie Crowe]

The reduction in friction when a leadership team is all 'rowing in the same direction' is as big as the difference for a competitive rowing team on the water.  Imagine the oars not entering the water at the same time - it causes the direction of the boat to shift (instead of go straight) - which means wasted effort and longer distance to travel.  Imagine someone not 'pulling their weight' (literally!) they are a drag on the whole boat.  These are just a couple of ways that not be cohesive cause friction and slow down leadership teams, or make them counterproductive.  The impact is immense.    

Dare I say it's 10x?  :) 

[Stephanie Crowe]

I still think people confuse Management and Leadership.  But I'm not certain it matters.  

I also think sayings like "there's no "I" in Team" get in the way of understanding the value of Coaches, Leaders and how to create and facilitate good team dynamics.

After the Leadership and Teamwork session, please bring those insights to 10x Leader on how they might multiply your mission (as a leader :)) TeachAbout - 10x Leader  

[Paul Terlemezian]

Excellent points. I have been reading "Unscaled" and becoming increasingly intrigued by the potential of "Unscaling" as an accelerator of 10x Leader.