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
The point is that leaders assessments for all organizations should take them into account and form _____ to support such an accounting. You want to hire people with heart.
assessments p176
the reason the team is so interested in women and minorities is that such diversity has an unquestionable balanced the team culture and added ____ and ____ to its activities…. extremist activities tend to be male dominated the have tradition of bravado and machismo… In contrast, diverse teams are more resistant to such catastrophic self-destruction.
creativity and breadth
the reason the team is so interested in women and minorities is that such diversity has an unquestionably balanced the team culture and added ____ and ____ to its activities…. extremist activities tend to be male dominated the have tradition of bravado and machismo… In contrast, diverse teams are more resistant to such catastrophic self-destruction.
creativity and breadth
the nearly universal lesson to organizational leaders is that a diverse membership and to degree of ____ and ___ ___ to everything the team does. Diverse teams are stable team
stability and mutual respect
an extreme sport team, or a group going to work on an elite business or engineering project, you need both coaches and ______ to make the team develop and learn as an entity and produce leaders in the end.
leader developers
The two most commonly observed leaders are performance coaches and team captains. The most important, however, are ______. The best teams always have them.
leader developers
Whether a coach, captain, or someone just hanging around, the point is that someone has to focus the competitive activity of high-performing team into the _____.
development of teammates
the point is broadly applicable: someone on the team, whether a coach, team captain, or other person, has to pay attention to ____… There is a high pay off from developmental focus, and someone has to end dead that focus into the habits and operating style of the team.
individual development
______ have to blend in performance with development
Performance coaches
_____ are focused on peer-to-peer relationships on the team and often on the daily conduct of team activities. They help the coach run the show and establish peer to peer dynamics that keep the team focused on performance and commitment.
Team captains
If outsiders like coaches barely preach what should be teaching standards, the message often falls on deaf ears … when peers lead by example with no preaching, the message is _____ and much more accepted.
authentic
The roles of a performance coach and peer-elected team captain are decidedly complementary. A performance coach leads with ___, using relatively inexperienced to demand better and better outcomes from the team. A team captain leads with ___, working together with peers to keep the group cohesive, focus, and committed to excellence
pull
push
for team to maximize its leader development potential, coaching and captaining are not enough….. Designated leader developers are needed. Leader developers should the experience in ____, be visible as _____, be trained to reinforce the attitudes and behaviors required of leaders, and fill out the supervisory staff of a truly developmental team
leadership,
role models
the secret to developing leaders from teams may rest in part with the ____and sense of purpose brought to the team by those who want to develop its members
dedication
in risky endeavors, it is even more essential rank take a backseat to professional competence in matters of ____
judgment
being a leadership role model, resisting the urge to lead for the developing and leader, and instead coaching them on what they need to be, know, and do in the context of the team in order to ____
learn to lead
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:
- ____- leaders learn to be motivated by the environment… they learn a quiet, confident form of leadership
- ____- members direct energy to surviving and learn rapidly, spending less time distracted or self absorbed. Team united against common threat: danger
- ____- 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.
- ____- teammates in dangerous environments commit to life sharing the same equipment and facing the greatest equalizer of all: the laws of chance.
Inherent motivation
Orientation to learning
Shared risk
Common lifestyle
Who is responsible for everything the team does or fails to do?
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 _____, 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.
responsibility for their actions
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 ____ rather than give in to recklessness and allow the chance to blindly protect their indiscretions
discipline and responsibility
select promising leaders to start with, then ____them into extraordinary leaders who are willing and able to lead soldiers in an Extremis context.
professionally developed
