Strong leaders, on the other hand, focus on more strategic issues of accomplishing the mission, developing team capabilities and confidence, and gaining buy-in for overall success.
While HR departments have traditionally focused on individual employees recruiting them, developing them and assessing their performance we are seeing the advent of a new capability, one of developing team intelligence, or the practice of understanding what makes great teams deliver exceptional results.
This is a developing team.
"This is a young developing team.
The developing teams are like younger siblings.
Thus, leader behavior shapes team climate and team capabilities.
And for the unit heads, who would be on the front lines of strategic and cultural change and also responsible for hitting demanding budgets, the key competencies were results orientation, developing organizational capabilities, team leadership, and inclusiveness.
Perhaps most challenging, we had to identify and develop leadership capabilities in our team, whose track record was uneven at best.
Now, our CIOs focus on supporting the businesses, driving innovation deep in the business lines, and then tapping into a set of common capabilities that our technology development team develops for them.
The degree of cross-training, communication and trust dictates the potential capacity of the team and it is possible to develop technical capabilities that surpass those of conventional teams.
