After a crisis, building team capabilities, capacity and culture, back to what it once was is critical and needs to be a leadership top priority.
It is no surprise that there is a strong correlation between leadership actions and how companies perform – it is more important than ever to try and use this information when working with teams during challenging times.
Our partners at Pollinate Networks Inc. created a Leadership Effectiveness Checklist to help safeguard your company culture.
The Leadership Effectiveness Checklist provides areas for you to assess where your company’s culture could be at risk and highlights what areas you can focus on to strengthen the culture and performance of your team. Here are four key areas of focus:
1. Recognize the tone, trust, timing, and tolerance you and the team are demonstrating in interactions together. Have grace for each other as you demonstrate tolerance. Use the checklist as an open dialogue to keep each other in check.
2. Virtual leadership requires presence from the leader – taking time to connect with and check in on individuals on a regular basis is required. In the absence of information, team members will fill in the gaps with their own perceptions of what may or may not be happening around them. Make it a practice to over communicate priorities and set the pace for your team.
3. Look for evidence of team effectiveness. Find ways to celebrate these incremental accomplishments that are moving performance in the right direction. Rebalance team capacity as required to ensure fairness and accommodation of individual needs.
4. Humans are social beings who rely on cooperation and thrive on connection. Leaders need to be the catalyst for the coordination of efforts by listening to concerns, demonstrating patience and together sharing stories of challenges and solutions.
We would like to hear from you. Let us know, are there areas you have learned about and could focus on now to strengthen the company culture in your workplace?
