Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

92. Key Roles in Effective Teams

Concept

If we have the right people on our team, we may or may not have the right roles in play. If we have selected the right people, they may play the necessary roles naturally—and they might not. A good team leader will watch for these roles and ensure that they are alive and well. He or she might even explicitly assign the roles to individuals to be sure those functions occur.

What roles would you say are key for any high performing team? Write down your thoughts here.

 

 

 

 

 

Blake and Mouton gave us the traditional functional axes in the Managerial Grid.⁶³ These axes are task and process. In other words, somebody has to be thinking about getting the job done and someone should be thinking about how