Leadership Programs Helps Startups Meet New Challenges
If you're an entrepreneur, part of a startup or even a member of a fast-growing business, one of the many goals you likely have as an organization is to create a unicorn company—a billion-dollar company.
And you likely want your billion-dollar company impacting billions of people.
Maybe, if your sights aren't set that high, you have a different sort of business, but you have a mission.
You have a goal you want to accomplish.
The question is, how do you, as a manager and a leader, help create an organization that accomplishes that mission?
The truth is, at the heart of many businesses are its people, whether intentional or not.
High-performing teams help drive these goals and missions in the first place to be able to get us there. To support the operations necessary and create the community and the environment required actually to succeed and achieve our mission.
See, team development doesn't require a significant amount of intellect or insights or masterful tactics.
More than anything, team building requires a keen understanding of people, their strengths and what encourages employees to stay engaged at work.
Leaders are only as successful as their teams, but the reality is, teamwork is primarily left untapped.
While every team is unique in its own nuances and dynamics, too often, untrained managers don’t have the proper leadership team development skills.
Untrained managers become oversized individual contributors rather than the leader high-performing teams need. Resulting in multiple challenges such as the absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
That’s why companies need to look into leadership development programs to ensure their managers and leaders are equipped with the skills and knowledge to build strong teams consistently.
While there is no cookie-cutter approach, a leadership development program can provide the tools and frameworks to understand the nuances of team dynamics and ultimately tailor a leaders’ approach no matter at which stage a team might find themselves.
Leadership team development teaches managers how to master the “art of people” and how to maneuver people at the right place and at the right time to build unstoppable teams.
A leadership development program will prepare startup managers to enhance their skills with their team and prepare them to meet new challenges such as the ones below:
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Now that you have mastered how to manage conflict - what is your plan of action for making an impact with your team?
Now that you have mastered how to create an environment of empowerment via the 3-P's - what is your plan of action for making an impact with your team?
Developing Your Communication, Empathy and Emotional Intelligence skills is start. What is your plan of action for implementing your learnings within your your team?
Now that you understand the differences in these titles - what is your plan of action for what you learned?
Assessing your team's behaviors is a start - but do you have a plan of action for the results?
Now that you have mastered the art of decision making - what is your plan of action for making an impact with your team?
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A DISC Behavior Assessment is the best way to understand your team's personalities.
Each DISC Assessment includes a Self Assessment and DISC Style evaluation worksheet