S4E5: How Productive and Effective are Your Teams?

Steve Macchia, well-known author, and Founder and President of Leadership Transformations, shares the five vital leadership traits of becoming a healthy team.

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In this episode:

• Our research at BCWI tells us that the spiritual dimension of leadership is a key aspect of creating effective teams. 
• How effective and productive are your teams? 
• Do you sense a spiritual vitality in your teams?
• What are you, yourself, as a leader, experiencing, as you care for and shepherd your flock, your teams?
• The definition of Fantastic Teams. Fantastic teams “exemplify a spirit of partnership and collaboration--not “me” but “we” --to achieve shared goals and objectives within a department, across departments, or organization wide. Fantastic teams create consensus, direction and momentum to establish, grow and sustain a flourishing culture.”
• To create fantastic teams, you really need: 
  • shared common goals and objectives, achieved by people with 
  • clear roles, working collaboratively and  
  • leveraging their individual and collective strengths as team members.
• As a leader, you talk a lot about a leader’s priority mission and a leader’s intimacy with God. Why do you place such a high priority on this, and what does it look like in a team environment? 
• Five traits of vital leadership.
• At its core, Inspirational Leadership is connected to the leader’s relationship with Christ. 
• Inspirational Leadership, which is highly comprised of character facets, is one of the top 2 strongest predictors of employee engagement across all sectors surveyed by BCWI.
• The extent to which a leader exhibits good character and is also competent, and has good chemistry is crucial for Inspirational Leadership. 
• Inspirational Leadership beats at the heart of Fantastic Teams. 
• How to identify unhealthy teams?

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