Leadership in Preparation - Additional Resources
In keeping with the Governor’s Proclamation quoted (in part) above, we have focused this month on Leadership in Preparedness.
In keeping with the Governor’s Proclamation quoted (in part) above, we have focused this month on Leadership in Preparedness.
As a result of the interest expressed following our article on earthquake preparation last week, I asked my friend and former business colleague, Don MacSparran, to provide us with the next installment on the topic of leadership in preparedness.
Note: One aspect of leadership is the ability to see ahead, plan ahead, and be prepared. As we head into the Fall with uncertain weather right around the corner, I asked Jeremy Stilwell for permission to print an article he drafted for homeowners and property management companies in the Pacific Northwest.
This week we continue (and conclude) our discussion regarding how to develop a healthy and productive team. As we have affirmed, doing so is the goal of every leader that values teamwork as the strategic method of developing organizational effectiveness.
Note: We are pausing in our regular content sequence to provide a look into the lives of a military couple who faced serious challenges in their marriage through the video lens of our media production team.
Developing a healthy and productive team is the goal of every leader that values teamwork as the favored method of developing organizational effectiveness. We started this discussion by highlighting three core attributes that we have found to be essential ingredients for developing (and maintaining) an effective team culture.
Developing a healthy and productive team is the goal of every leader that approaches organizational effectiveness through the vehicle of teamwork. With that in mind, we are focused presently on exploring three core attributes that we have found to be essential ingredients for developing (and maintaining) an effective team culture.
Though there are a wide variety of suggestions regarding how to effect positive team results, we have found in multiple settings that when we are pressed to articulate the irreducible-minimum essentials, we always return to the same three core attributes, namely, viewing one’s teammates as fellow workers, committed colleagues, and mission partners.
Leadership discussions are replete with advice on the value of teamwork – and, yes, I have put my own oar in the river on this topic more than once.
That said, we have not previously addressed the elements that work together to comprise a healthy and productive working community - namely, those key factors that serve as a catalyst to build and sustain a truly effective team.