Squadify Connects

Warren Bennis a leading scholar and a key light in building effective organizations over this century once said Creating a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into reality. Once you have clarity on your why or purpose, the next step is to craft the vision of the destination that you are seeking.

Simon Sinek tells us that people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. And the same applies for people working in your team. Creating a sense of purpose, which provides meaning and alignment, is crucially important and the focus of our Connects today.

Before we start to build your clarity on a page, we need to make sure that it's anchored by an external focus. Your team needs to serve its stakeholders and know the context that it works in. Checking on that first will pay huge dividends down the line.

We do a lot of work with teams of all kinds, and one thing we can say is that they think that they know what they're trying to achieve and how they will do it. But in fact, they generally don't. This Connects sets up the rest of this mini-series so that you can lead a team that is not just going places or being really busy, but knows where that place is and how they'll get there.

Aligning your team behind a clear direction that everyone understands is motivated to achieve and can deliver to is probably one of the most fundamental keys to success, and also where a whole lot of challenges can lie. Welcome to today's connect, the first in a mini-series, focusing on alignment, bringing your people together, and helping them make sense of their work and actually achieving more.

There's probably not a single business or organization on this planet that is just content to stay with the status quo. And given so many changes in our ways of working, markets and economies, you can really understand why. But making the actual change is often harder to do in your team. So understanding a visual journey to your next transformation is gonna be incredibly valuable to lead you and your team towards your vision.

Hybrid work can be exhausting at times. Fatigue and burnout are two big factors to manage. So today we conclude our series on leading in hybrid by going back to you and making sure you are looking after number one okay.

Working in hybrid and remote teams offers huge benefits in terms of flexibility, time saving, and availability of talent – not to mention the benefits for the environment. But leading in hybrid requires a few new skills, so we have three tips for you today based on our research with the London School of Economics.

Teams are made up of individuals, but how they work together as a team makes a huge difference to performance. But what is that secret code of skills and behaviour that are going to make the team really work well together? That's what we're looking at this week; the last of the three Cs: competence.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is a well-known quote from management consultant Peter Drucker. You can have the best strategy and direction, but if your team aren't set up for success, it'll become really difficult to properly succeed. So this week's episode is focusing on our next condition for success: climate.