Connecting top managers : developing executive teams for business success

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jim, Author.

Contributor:

Haneberg, Lisa, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Business ethics.

Teams in the workplace.

Success in business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] FT Press 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How do you go about improving leadership team performance, strengthening the connections between leaders, and strengthening the leadership team’s connections with the rest of the enterprise? This book tells you how. Leadership teams, working together, create the culture and set the tone for the entire organization. When leadership teams fail to connect with employees, their organizations fail. Expensive leadership meetings often accomplish nothing, and clashing leadership styles can disrupt the entire business. What do these issues have in common? Simply this: The way leaders work together is crucial, and enormous organization-wide performance improvements can be achieved when they work together more effectively. Readers will first learn how to define what leadership team excellence looks like, and clarify the organizational impact you want your leadership team to have. Next, they’ll learn how to systematically optimize the 5% of time your leaders spend working together–in person, electronically, and through subordinates. This book will help readers magnify their impact, whether they’re already at the top of the organization, or aspiring to a future leadership role.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Pack of Top Dogs

Who This Book Is For

Who We Are

How the Book Is Organized

Time Is Precious

Endnotes

Chapter 1 Executive Team Execution

Definitions of Success

Measures of Success

Section 1: Business Results

Financial Performance

Customer Retention and Satisfaction

Strategic Implementation

Section 2: Daily Team Effectiveness

Decision-making Success

Relationship Building

The Team's Reputation Within the Organization

Section 3: Talent Development

Bench Strength and Succession Planning

Management Team Capacity

Leadership Team Growth

Section 4: The Workplace

Organizational Culture

Employee Engagement and Retention

Organizational Agility

Which Indicators Should You Measure?

Chapter 2 The Clash of Titans: Executive Teaming

What Is Executive Teaming?

Dysfunction Reverberates

Holding Yourself to a High Standard

Two Executive Teaming Skills

Ensure Differences Don't Lead to Clashes

Practice Partnership at All Times

The Traits of Leadership Team Partnership

Shared Purpose

Shared Ownership

Mutual Trust

Critical Thinking

Shared Success and Failure

Effective Inclusion and Communication

Partnership Techniques

Don't Try to Control Peers

Spend Time Together

Resolve Relationship Problems

Represent Each Other Well

Never Bad Mouth

Own Problems and Challenges

Be Humble

Know Their Needs

Working on Your Teaming Skills

Chapter 3 Meetings Are Money

The Cost of Meetings Index

Value of Meetings Hurdle

Why Are You Meeting?

Chapter 4 Culture Is the Context and Often the Answer

What Is an Organization's Culture?

How Are Organizational Cultures Formed and Changed?

Improving the Organization's Culture.

Define the Desired Culture

Define the Current Culture

Assess Capacity for Change (C4C)

Create Plan for Cultural Improvement

Be the Culture

Chapter 5 They Are All Moments of Truth

Be Fast or Fail

Successful Moments of Truth

How to Quickly Make a Positive Impact and Build Relationships

Trust

Credibility

Familiarity

Connection to You and the Team

Connection to the Organization

Interest, Passion, and Enrollment

Clarity, Commitment, and Focus

Make a Splash!

All for One, One for All

Chapter 6 Getting Better Together

Leadership Team Member Capabilities

More Than Competencies

Intra-Team Talent Reviews

Peer Coaching

Team Assignments

Team Development Events

Chapter 7 Creating an Agile Organization

A Primer on Organizational Agility

What Is Organizational Agility?

Model of Organizational Agility

Focus

Resources

Performance

Five Benefits of Organizational Agility

Organizational Agility: Two Scenarios

Assessment: How Agile Is Your Organization?

Individual and Leadership Team Agility

Chapter 8 Leadership Team Strategies for Remaining Union-Free

10 Early Warning Signs

10 Reasons Employees Organize

12 Issues Targeted by Unions

12 Reasons for Union-Organizing Success

Be Visible and Known and Build Relationships at All Levels

Measure and Improve Your Organization's Connectivity Index

Ensure Role Clarity for Management Positions

Shore Up Management Fundamentals from Top to Bottom

Conclusion: A Manifesto About Love and Leadership

Will You Go for the Gold?

Executive Team Execution

The Clash of Titans: Executive Teaming

Meetings Are Money

Culture Is the Context and Often the Answer

They Are All Moments of Truth

Getting Better Together.

Creating an Agile Organization

Leadership Team Strategies for Remaining Union-Free

Appendix: The Leadership Team Excellence Assessment

The Leadership Team Survey

Part 1: How We Measure Success

Part 2: How We Spend Time Together

Part 3: How We Impact Organizational Excellence

The Leadership Team Survey with Discussion Notes

The Leadership Team Survey as a Tool for Development

References

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612918049

9781282918047

1282918044

9780132655910

0132655918

OCLC:

1027130008