Super teams: Tools

Select a post from Mike's blog3 tips for building on the positive people in an organisation3 tips for understanding the rules in a system3 tips for focusing on what your super team needs to keep, start and stop doing3 tips for employing people who embody the team story3 tips for co-ordinating your people’s talents3 tips for focusing on your strategy, sales and service3 tips for inviting your team to consider they are running their own business3 tips for using role theory to help people to succeed3 tips for clarifying whether your team are serious3 tips for reminding people of the story3 tips for getting the right balance of decision makers, drivers and deliverers3 tips for focusing on your leadership legacy3 tips for doing a proper SWOT analysis3 tips for giving tough messages to a team member3 tips for focusing on a team's positive principles - their positive history and future3 tips for managing your sponsors, team and customers3 tips for focusing on leadership, ownership and results3 tips for helping a person to achieve an A grade3 tips for managing by outcomes3 tips for working with leaders who are entrepreneurs, engineers or entrepreneurs who are also engineers3 tips for getting the right drivers in the team3 tips for doing a Strengths Inventory3 tips for employing positive team members3 tips for being a good co-ordinator3 tips for setting the tone when taking over a team3 tips for working in a green field site, rather than a brown field site3 tips for clarifying your team's strategies for success3 tips for managing Rome3 tips for encouraging your people to explore the future world of work3 tips for balancing consistency and creativity in a team3 tips for setting-up a team to succeed3 tips for getting the right balance of soul players and star players3 tips for focusing on your super team's story, strategy and success3 tips for using the rolling contract question3 tips for getting the mandate to make things happen in an organisation3 tips for communicating the team's vision, values and visible results3 tips for accepting the leadership package3 tips for channelling the power of triangles in a team3 tips for building a team based on talent, tenacity and teamwork3 tips for balancing accountability, autonomy and authority3 tips for communicating your leadership style to people3 tips for building a super team3 tips for getting ideas to the fingertips of the organisation3 tips for focusing on clarity, crisis management and concrete results3 tips for rewarding the behaviour you want repeated3 tips for focusing on the team's compass3 tips for creating momentum by changing the physical things3 tips for communicating the results, rules and rewards3 tips for getting the best from adrenalin-driven people3 tips for clarifying who you would rehire in your team3 tips for knowing when to drive it, delegate it or ditch it3 tips for making sure somebody completes a mission3 tips for engaging your people on three levels to achieve success3 tips for helping people in a leadership team to build on their strengths3 tips for helping people to make a passionate contribution3 tips for getting the right balance between the global purpose and the local practice3 tips for balancing being an energiser, educator and enforcer3 tips for focusing on the 3 Ps when clarifying your picture of perfection3 tips for meeting individuals when taking over a team3 tips for focusing on the story, spirit and system for achieving success3 tips for rating your team's chances of success3 tips for building a second generation super team3 tips for understanding the cottage, castle and cathedral3 tips for interviewing a prospective leader3 tips for building a team based on belief, behaviour and brilliant results3 tips for building a team based on similarity of spirit and diversity of strengths3 tips for following the STAGE model of leadership3 tips for involving people in clarifying everybody’s responsibilities in achieving the team’s goals.3 tips for hiring people who are enthusiastic, encouraging and excellent3 tips for using a Candidate Pre-work Pack that people complete before coming for an interview3 tips for recognising Transformational, Turnaround and Transactional leadership3 tips for clarifying your team's desire and discipline to reach its destination3 tips for ensuring your team has a common language3 tips for making a clear contract with your team3 tips for crafting your script for your proposed contribution to an organisation3 tips for building on the positive energy in an organisation3 tips for asking key questions on the road to achieving team success3 tips for putting the right people in the right places to get the right results3 tips for turning around customer complaints3 tips for following your principles during times of uncertainty3 tips for encouraging a person to keep working towards the picture of perfection3 tips for knowing when to debate, decide, deliver3 tips for never walking past a quality problem3 tips for shaping your future career by creating a win-win-win3 tips for recognising clear messages, conflicting messages and confusing messages3 tips for clarifying people's preferred working styles3 tips for translating the story into a superb elevator pitch3 tips for focusing on your team's strategy, spirit and star performances3 tips for recognising that a leader is judged by the performance of their team3 tips for clarifying your team member’s strengths3 tips for clarifying the Dos and Don’ts for working with a particular customer3 tips for maintaining the magic in a team3 tips for building resilient teams3 tips for building on the positive people to build a positive culture3 tips for inviting your team members to describe their successes and challenges3 tips for co-ordinating your team's strengths3 tips for really living the values in an organisation3 tips for building a good leadership team3 tips for being true to yourself - even if you get sacked3 tips for building on your strengths as a leader3 tips for educating your people to do creative problem-solving3 tips for managing the funnel and translating the ongoing demands into successful actions on the ground3 tips for using the 3 waves approach to shifting a culture3 tips for building a more self-managing team3 tips for improving the colleague's journey3 tips for working well with your new manager3 tips for improving the service package3 tips for ensuring people feel they are running their own business that contributes to a bigger business3 tips for being an enforcer by focusing the purpose and principles, rather than details of the practice3 tips for holding three kinds of team meetings3 tips for clarifying each person's best contribution to the team3 tips for implementing the right strategy with the right people in the right way3 tips for recognising there is the letter I in the word TEAM3 tips for managing a constellation of stars3 tips for recognising the 3 kinds of organisations in today's world3 tips for getting the right balance of warriors and warrior-wizards3 tips for clarifying each person's contribution to the picture of perfection3 tips for clarifying your philosophy for building a super team3 tips for clarifying your team's picture of perfection3 tips for communicating your team's story

The ‘3 tips …’ series provides many tools for focusing on strengths, super teams and sharing knowledge. This section of the series is devoted to building super teams.

[navigation tip 1] You can find “all” posts in the Super teams category of Mike’s blog via the “Select a post from Mike’s blog” drop-down menu above, which has been filtered to just show this category. Alternatively, use the “search” function in the top right of this page if you are looking for something more specific.

[navigation tip 2] For quick access to the very “latest” posts in the Super teams category of Mike’s blog you can choose from the last 20 posts in this category listed below.

The Super Teams Pack

This 70 page pack provides exercises you can use for running a super teams workshop. Take the ideas you like and use them in your own way for helping people to build super teams.

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• 3 tips for building on the positive people in an organisation
• 3 tips for understanding the rules in a system
• 3 tips for focusing on what your super team needs to keep, start and stop doing
• 3 tips for employing people who embody the team story
• 3 tips for co-ordinating your people’s talents
• 3 tips for focusing on your strategy, sales and service
• 3 tips for inviting your team to consider they are running their own business
• 3 tips for using role theory to help people to succeed
• 3 tips for clarifying whether your team are serious
• 3 tips for reminding people of the story
• 3 tips for getting the right balance of decision makers, drivers and deliverers
• 3 tips for focusing on your leadership legacy
• 3 tips for doing a proper SWOT analysis
• 3 tips for giving tough messages to a team member
• 3 tips for focusing on a team's positive principles - their positive history and future
• 3 tips for managing your sponsors, team and customers
• 3 tips for focusing on leadership, ownership and results
• 3 tips for helping a person to achieve an A grade
• 3 tips for managing by outcomes
• 3 tips for working with leaders who are entrepreneurs, engineers or entrepreneurs who are also engineers

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