Leadership

To be unforgettable, build your signature and unique style

Your signature dress style or accessory

Dominance by aggressivity or by generosity

Leaders look for dominance more than others. Their level of testosterone gives them the drive.
Testosterone, known as the the aggressivity hormone, may also generate a "generosity" behavior.

Touching followers increases your persuasion power

Clients that have been touched at upper arm level by the vendor, will buy more.

What followers like the most with leaders ? The capacity to set goals.

How to satisfy followers? Congratulations

The strongest satisfyer for followers: Recognition.
Congratulates your followers as often as you can.

Decide jointly on a team scoreboard

Create real team spirit by building a team scoreboard to measure and display joint performance

Give your team a measurable objective every week. That which is measured is done.

Get a page for your team on the intranet of your company

Display publicly the performance of your team

Federate your team around the team business plan

The team BP is a 5-page model document describing how your team will contribute to the financial and non-financial measured performance of the organization.

Decide on a team identity graphical chart and logo

Enforce its use on all mails

Bond your team by setting out its mission on a single page.

Write your own mission down first.

Use a team "bible" of check-lists to jointly face the most frequent situations

Add a page to your team bible every week. Delegate by writing down your know-how as instructions in the big book.

Sign a teamwork convention.

Get a written, signed teamwork agreement with all team members

Delegate nearly everything

Facing a problem, do not look for a solution, look for a delegate

Decide on the team glossary and on the real name of the team shared files

To avoid misunderstanding and ease knowledge sharing

Use the team delegation test to prevent conflicts

Ask each of your team members to note on a paper to whom they think they can ask to do something on their behalve. Share the answers

Who is your co-pilot ?

Identify a Number 2 or a Chief Operation Officer to operate your team

Never accept a team as you receive it.

Challenge every person team membership. Start staffing from your requested competency list.

People do not work naturally together well

Apply two or three team cohesion methods from the favorite list. Select the key word "Team" to find examples.

Decide on the team replacement chart for all team critical functions.

For the six major team critical function. Who is in responsibility. If this person is not able to guarantee this function, who in the team will be in charge ?