The Leadership Accelerator: The Playbook for Transitioning into Your New Executive Role

CHAPTER 14

Boost Your Team Performance

In previous chapters, we covered various drivers of team performance—from diagnosing the functioning of the team to re-recruiting the team you inherit and effectively delivering your target brand through your team. In this chapter, I address strategies for overcoming three common dysfunctions that can impede team performance that frequently come up in our Transition Labs:

1.   Delegation up: avoiding accountability

2.   Collective lethargy: low energy, little engagement, lack of commitment

3.   Organization silos and conflict that delay or undermine collective success

While there are many other inhibitors of team performance (for example, see Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of the Team: A Leadership Fable ...