My 12 Elements of building great teams

1. Creating Winning Teams
Ken Guss
CEO GroupAero

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An Unselfish Leader Has One Focus:
- Making The Team Better
Your Success Must come from the Team
Put Your Team in the Spotlight and You will
Shine

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Your Key Focus – Never Lose It
Team Recognition is What Matters
Most of Your Time Needs to be Spent on This
If You Can’t Focus on This-You May Have the
Wrong People

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Is Your Team Comfortable With Change?
Are You?
Flexibility in Business is Always a Function of
Great Leadership
Kotter (Leading Change) says to Reward Your
Team for the Right Behaviors
A Hallmark of Great Teams is getting excited
about New Things

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When You have Built the Right Team Let Them
Run
Great Teams Never Fear Mistakes
Your Job is to Pick Them Up When They Do
Learn and Get Better
Are You Empowering Them or Holding Them
Back?

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Leaders Are Not Born-You Must Create Them
Find Ways for them to Lead
Put Them in Positions to Lead in Projects,
Programs or New Ideas
The Skills They Develop will Reward the Team
Tenfold
It Might Get You Promoted as well

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You Don’t Want Your People Competing With
Each Other
This Creates Individual Agendas and Loses the
Team Focus on Company Success
Always Reward Team Success to Assure this
will not happen

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Jack Welch said “People First; Strategy Second”
Your People Must Always Come First
The Personal Energy from these Relationships
Unleashes the Power of People
Key Enabler of Best Practices, Processes and
Services
Separates Your Company from the Pack

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Involve the Entire Workforce
Assures Buy-in to Where You are Going and
How You Get There
A Set of Values is a Foundation That All Can
Embrace
Makes Decisions Easy- If it Fits Your Values Do
It; If Not then You Don’t
Should Be A Driving Force in Your Company

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Talked About A Great Deal but Rarely
Practiced
Must be a Continuing Focus of Your Team
Every Day, All the Time, Utilizing Every Tool
You Can Devise
Especially True During Difficult Times
Assuring Employee Support
Communicate,Communicate,CommunicateThere is No Such Thing As Too Much

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Practice the Attitude that Everyone Owns the
Company
Value All Contributions and Constantly
Encourage Your Team to Do So
When People Believe they are Valued and
Respected it Creates a Great Atmosphere for
Teamwork
Lead this Every Day

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Find Reasons To get the Workforce Together
Celebrate New Programs, Cost Reduction etc
Foster a Feeling of Family and Support
Creating a Fun Atmosphere allows Employees
to Look Forward to Work each day
They Look for Ways to Contribute and Secure
their Futures

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Are You?
Do You Focus on Hearing what Your Team has
to Say?
Are You Learning Each Day as a Leader?
If You see New Ideas and Energy each Day I’ll
bet You are
If the Only Ideas in Your Head are Your Own
You are Not
Make it a Priority!

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Twelve Elements of Successful Leadership
A Simple Set of Practices and Beliefs I have
Learned that Work
In Today’s Business Climate Your Ability to
Create Great Leadership is Essential to Survival
and Assuring Success Now and in the Future
Leadership is a Choice- It Must be Your Focus
Every Day!