Building High Performing Teams and Creating a Culture for Success Mike Monson April 2011
Overview Building Blocks to Building High Performing Teams and Creating a Culture of Success INSPIRING CHARACTER COURAGE PERSEVERANCE VISION OF SOMETHING GREATER ENERGY & OPTIMISM CLEAR COMMUNICATION ACCOUNTABILITY TO EXCELLENCE DECISION MAKING PEOPLE DRIVEN MISSION FOCUSED
L1 Mission Focused All else doesn t matter if the mission isn t getting done. The effective mission statement is short and sharply focused it should fit on a T- shirt. The mission says WHY you do what you do, not the means by which you do it. - Peter Drucker
L2 People Driven Do you really care about your people? Do you care about their development? Do you really know your people? Do you know what motivates each person? Every person has a story get to know their story. ~ Gen Mark Welsh III
L3 Decision Making Trust your instincts seek counsel act with conviction. Do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions. ~ Jim Collins
L4 Excellence Give your customers, subordinates, and superiors more than they expect and hold your people accountable to the same. Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement. ~ Tom Peters
L5 Communication Message sent does not always mean message received. Like voting in Chicago leaders must communicate early and often to get their message through. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Review Building Blocks to Building High Performing Teams and Creating a Culture for Success INSPIRING CHARACTER COURAGE PERSEVERANCE VISION OF SOMETHING GREATER ENERGY & OPTIMISM CLEAR COMMUNICATION ACCOUNTABILITY TO EXCELLENCE DECISION MAKING PEOPLE DRIVEN MISSION FOCUSED
L6 Energy & Optimism No pessimist ever led his team to victory. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry S. Truman
L7 Vision We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard President John F. Kennedy September 12, 1962 To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership. ~ President Ronald Reagan
L8 Perseverance My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Abraham Lincoln Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense ~ Sir Winston Churchill
L9 Courage Do the right thing. The only fingerprints that last are the ones you leave on your people Gen Mark Welsh III It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain
L10 Inspiring Character I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious. Vince Lombardi
Culture for Success or Leaders influence the culture of their organization. For better or worse, the organization takes on the personality of the leader.
Summary Building Blocks to Building High Performing Teams and Creating a Culture of Success INSPIRING CHARACTER COURAGE PERSEVERANCE VISION OF SOMETHING GREATER ENERGY & OPTIMISM CLEAR COMMUNICATION ACCOUNTABILITY TO EXCELLENCE DECISION MAKING PEOPLE DRIVEN MISSION FOCUSED
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Quotes A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled; they will say: We did it ourselves. - Sun Tzu The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say I. And that s not because they have trained themselves not to say I. They don t think I. They think We ; they think Team. They understand their job is to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don t sidestep it. But We gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. - Peter Drucker "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman. "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." - Andrew Carnegie This leadership stuff is really hard; it hurts a lot sometimes; nobody s going to like you; and, all your people are better than you. Gen Mark Welsh III
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