OWP 2022: Leading For the Future

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MEETING IN THE MIDDLE Motivate and inspire teams to be aligned and engage in conflict constructively.

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DEEP IMPACT Inspire a deeper trust in a group so there’s a greater acceptance of responsibility and accountability.

on countless examples of executive teams across several organizations to show how different leadership styles can affect an organization’s work ethic and culture. By being a conscious and insightful leader through a deeper awareness of the psychological behaviors in a group teaches you what to look out for and how to make sense of group dynamics. This can create new, or at least different, options for team and organizational leaders.

you may try to make teams predictable when they’re often not. You may try to fix issues on the surface but fail to address the deeper dynamics and persistent causes of what can amount to unhelpful, even destructive, interaction. NO RIGHT ORWRONGWAY Those in leadership roles play a crucial part – you can create, sustain, challenge, and change a group’s shifting motivating forces. There is no single right way to lead a group of people, however, and you can draw

ACHIEVING GREAT GROUP THINKING

Executives benefit from being able to navigate the hidden life of teams, and learning to confront challenges such as achieving group alignment, and dealing with issues of trust, transparency, accountability and conflict. We don’t always understand what’s going on in teams; sometimes as a leader, you can be unaware of your impact on group dynamics. Whether consciously or not,

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