Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, Third Edition

11Team Leadership

 

Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Lael Good, and Ken Blanchard

Teams have become a major strategy for getting work done. We live in teams. Our organizations are made up of teams. We move from one team to another without giving it a thought. The percentage of time we spend in team settings—project teams, work groups, cross-functional teams, virtual teams, and management teams—is ever-increasing.

In our latest Blanchard research involving 1,300 people—in partnership with Training magazine in 2017¹—we learned that people spend more than half their work time in teams, and the more senior the respondent in terms of organizational level, the more that time increases.

Yet only 27 percent of the respondents felt that their teams were ...