The Power of Team

• BUILD on STRENGTH – to bring a vision to life, it takes the talents and gifts of a whole team working together. One person cannot accomplish what a powerful team can do. A leader must understand the value of each person and help him or her live into their full potential. That creates a powerful team.

“Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

• TRANSLATION – too many times, we’ve observed a leader sharing a great vision with their team that gets lost in translation. Leaders must ensure that the vision is well understood by the team. Some people catch vision through imagination, others through tangible explanation but everyone catches a vision through story. Some leaders are excellent at doing this themselves, other leaders enlist someone on the team to help with the translation. However it gets done, vision translation is critical to success.
• ALIGNMENT – Vision is essential to ensure that everyone knows where they’re going. Unfortunately, vision leaks and can incorrectly morph over time. Looking at the various scribbles that evolved into drawings which then became a small-scale replica of the Marqués de Riscal, it was clear that the team was constantly working to ensure that they understood the outcome. Throughout a project, teams must be reminded of “what success looks like.” Part of the role of a leader is to maintain alignment. This means that every team member understands the vision and their role as they work together to achieve the vision.