The Role of Leadership in Shifting Team Culture & Creating a ‘Work Family’

In this episode of Lead With that, Ren and Allison discuss the leadership lessons that we can glean from current societal conversations surrounding what being a “family” in the workplace really entails. As of late, many organizations have moved away from referring to employees as a family and have gravitated towards the concept of the “dream team,” or a more sports team-like structure. This change in jargon has seemingly led to positive organizational culture change as well, with Netflix being cited as a recent example of this. With the idea of being a well-rounded leader in the sports arena also showing up more in popular culture, like in Ted Lasso for instance, many of those in the workforce are fully embracing this this mindset and molding themselves and their leadership styles to fit it. While there are still many different opinions about the characteristics of a good leader, the conversation highlights from a leadership perspective what the true value of leadership that centers around building and managing teams may be and how this will affect organizational cultures moving forward.

 

What to explore next:

Build High-Performing Teams With Our Team Effectiveness Framework- https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/building-high-performing-teams-with-our-team-effectiveness-framework/

How to Lead a Collaborative Team - https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/how-to-lead-a-collaborative-team/

 

Related Solutions:

Team Development – https://www.ccl.org/leadership-challenges/team-development/ 

Team Collaboration Training - https://www.ccl.org/leadership-solutions/leadership-topics/team-leader-training/

DAC Framework for Effective Leadership - https://www.ccl.org/leadership-solutions/leadership-topics/effective-leadership-dac-framework/

 

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