Creating a Real Leadership Team

Yesterday we spoke about fear at the top of organisations and leadership teams that are more of a workgroup than a team. If there are no teams, there can be no psychological safety and in the absence of psychological safety, there can be no performance.

In this video, we go one step further and offer some advice on what any one leader that’s part of that group could do to reverse this and to build this team. We have seen some leaders do precisely this with amazing results so we know it works.

As with every other HumanDebt task that appears gargantuan, this one too feels impossible to grasp if we leave it at the theoretical level and leaders already have a full plate of commitments they have to tend to so simply reflecting ad nausea on a topic won’t serve any purpose.

Instead, we propose - breach the subject with your peers “If this is a continuum starting with “Workgroup for reporting purposes only, no real communication, collaboration or shared goodwill and purpose” on one end and then on the other end we have “Super-tight-knit, psychologically safe, open, innovative, creative, emotionally invested in a common vision and goal team” where do we think we are at?”

Once the penny drops that you are not nearly as invested and close-knit or able to solve problems or co-create together as you thought you were then what?