6 Building Teams That Build Leaders Flashcards
All team activities, such as youth or adult sports program, have the potential to add development of individual leaders. But when you deliberately build in a ___ ___ ___ with a team and add an element of risk or danger it’s not just a team anymore: it’s a superteam, developing its leaders and people along with its core mission of goals. There’s no better way to develop leaders.
leader development function
All team activities, such as youth or adult sports program, have the potential to add development of individual leaders. But when you deliberately build in a leader development function with a team and add an element of risk or danger it’s not just a team anymore: …
it’s a superteam, developing its leaders and people along with its core mission of goals. There’s no better way to develop leaders.
This element of conscience and the threat of immediate irreversible consequences make teams in dangerous context a rich developmental wellspring for great leaders. A dangerous context adds the following characteristics to development of leaders in teams:
- Inherent motivation- leaders learn to be motivated by the environment… they learn a quiet, confident form of leadership
- Orientation to learning- members direct energy to surviving and learn rapidly, spending less time distracted or self absorbed. Team united against common threat: danger
- Shared risk- everyone must look out for everyone else. Ego and the self focused are ostracized. It’s everyone’s job to take care of the each other— powerful lesson.
- Common lifestyle- teammates in dangerous environments commit to life sharing the same equipment and facing the greatest equalizer of all: the laws of chance.
Who is responsible for everything the team does or fails to do? p166
if taken literally, its the volunteers, not cadets, which interferes with the development of cadets
Who is responsible for everything the team does or fails to do?(not parachute team) p166
if taken literally, its the volunteers, not cadets, which interferes with the development of cadets
Officers associated with the team risk personal and professional criticism by accepting…
responsibility for their actions, while also allowing Cadets to act independently, and sometimes fail. In in extremis conditions, when failure occurs, only redundant supervision, equipment design, or emergency training will prevent a disaster.
on the parachute team then, cadets are personally and routinely afforded the opportunity to be responsible for…
preventing the horrific death of a classmate and friend. This is the developmental magic inherent in in Extremis teams
in in extremis settings, however, it is likely that the person will pay for his or her mistakes the first time they are made. That causes leaders to acquire habits of…
discipline and responsibility rather than give in to recklessness and allow the chance to blindly protect their indiscretions
select promising leaders to start with, then professionally developed them into extraordinary leaders who are willing and able to …
to lead soldiers in an Extremis context
Selection of the people who will make up superb high-performing team is a critical first step toward success in any organization. One important selection is not the focus exclusively by composing a team with the very best individuals. If you select a team primarily on ______, you can easily overlook or minimize the critical elements that take an average team to a superteazm: cohesion, stability of the group, positive team culture, and diversity. People with top-tier potential working together well formed the core of a truly high performing developmental team.
on individual prowess
It’s relatively easy to find people with top-tier potential; just look for excellence across the product range of ____.
competencies
The lesson for all leader developers is never compose a high performing team without a _____ of actual performance in the critical setting.
solid assessment
High-performing organization should always choose people who are broadly competent: fit, smartest, and internal motivated. Excessive focus convention cover former but not necessarily ____.
leaders
the purpose of the test (physical fitness test) is not the test candidates physical fitness for skydiving. Sports parachuting is not exceptionally physically demanding… Instead, the test helps measure candidate’s willingness to ____.
( Also test who can keep up physical fitness and who is likely to get injured)
prepare
the lesson is that among those selected from within the organization to lead, ____, _____, and _____ are unquestionably key characteristics for all leaders.
determination, discipline, and stamina