Teamwork: Protecting Your Team
Protecting your team is a part of your role as a leader. To create teamwork, you need to serve your team, so they can get on with working together, as a team. and defending them from the things that will get in their way is part of that ‘service’.
This approach to leading your team is called ‘servant leadership’.
Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
(See below for more details)
This video is part of course module number 4.3.2
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 2: Teamwork and Team Working
Other videos in this section include:
– Essentials of Working as a Team https://youtu.be/AZHBmSvcMuk
– Providing for Your Team https://youtu.be/-4ZGJTc1izY
– Protecting Your Team https://youtu.be/d2l0MAmgZnI
– Facilitating Effective Team Working https://youtu.be/u0_saYNmHmg
– Your Team’s Skills and Expertise https://youtu.be/8thhYXa4ZqI
– Elements of Effective Team Meetings https://youtu.be/QOKkXUza3uw
– Leading Effective Team Reviews https://youtu.be/vjqrYafrttU
– Team Celebrations https://youtu.be/sSF6PMrsMJE
– Problem Solving with Your Team https://youtu.be/sEcQ2FoXzao
– Your Team Working Problems Solved https://youtu.be/tIwRNM-jGKA
LESSON NOTES
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A servant leader has two primary roles:
1. Providing for their team (Rations)
2. Protecting their team (Raincoat)
The 5 main things you need to protect your team against are:
1. Distractions
Unnecessary and necessary admin burden
2. Interruptions
Colleagues making demands on their time
3. Conflict
Internal and external – conflict takes up time and saps energy and morale
4. Enquiries
People want someone to talk to – you do it. But do remember to give credit where it belongs
5. Poaching
The organization trying to lift people out of your team
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. What protection does your team need? Think about the protection your team needs – using the content of the video as a starting place. Develop your own checklist of things to defend them against that will make great teamwork as easy as possible for your team. (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Evaluate how well you are currently protecting your team, against your own checklist. Where can you improve team working by defending them better? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Build a plan to provide better protection for your team, and evaluate its impact on their team working. (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Consider trying out the Red and Blue Badge system. How could it work in your team – either day-to-day or when your team is under pressure? (1 MC CPD Point)
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RECOMMENDED READING
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– The Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://geni.us/wbIE
– The Wisdom of Teams https://geni.us/7i1AL
– The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work https://geni.us/Kzc4GV4
– Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart https://geni.us/oAgEOdA
– Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork https://geni.us/zUVV3G
– HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams https://geni.us/0DLsNe4
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