As a leader, what is your strategy to strengthen your workplace teams?
The way we live and work has changed tremendously over the past nine months. In many organizations, this shift occurred in a matter of weeks, if not days. As leaders offered greater flexibility, employees quickly adapted to new demands and learned and improved their skills.
Organizations that have proven to be most resilient moved to or expanded their online capacities and reconfigured their supply chain and delivery options. Simultaneously, they improved their diversity, equity, and inclusion outcomes. Their ability to respond quickly has ensured continuity, and in some cases, increased productivity.
But we’re not out of the woods. All leaders and employees will need to continue to strengthen their organization. As McKinsey & Company reported in October 2020, “corporate stress is now at the same point as it was in the 2009 trough, arriving in only months versus two years.”
Employees will look to their leaders to help them adapt, and while some are well-prepared with knowledge, experience, and a leadership style that inspires others to achieve real solutions, many lack what it takes to overcome the challenges ahead.
Organizational resilience requires leaders and managers who know how to motivate people in order to create value for customers, employees, and owners. When they are able to lead their team in healthy ways, they can achieve amazing results.
In Summary
These articles and Article Nuggets explore toxic teams, narcissistic employees, Ubuntu at work, and offer tips to strengthen your workplace teams.
This is a brief synopsis of a 1,730-word and a 1,125-word article, and 5-Article Nuggets*, suitable for consultants’ newsletters for executives and leaders in organizations. It is available for purchase with full reprint rights, which means you may put your name on it and use it in your newsletters, blogs or other marketing materials. You may also modify it and add your personal experiences and perspectives.
The complete articles and Article Nuggets include these important concepts:
- Sustainability in times of crisis
- The importance of job satisfaction today
- Team unity
- Toxic team prevention
- Ubuntu at work
- Narcissism at work
- How to motivate a correction
And references to the following sources:
Mark Mathabane, The Lessons of Ubuntu (Skyhorse 2018)
McKinsey & Company, The Emerging Resilients (October 2020)
McKinsey & Company, The Boss Factor (McKinsey Quarterly, September 2020)
Bill Taylor, “Why the Celtics Won–Lessons from Auerbach to ‘Ubuntu’,” Harvard Business Review (June 2008)
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