This document summarizes key points from a book about sharing team leadership for high engagement. It discusses the Team Identity Model, which involves tapping into the full range of skills in a team. It provides strategies for shared leadership, including stimulating initiative, redefining decision-making power, giving autonomy, not second guessing people, acting as a coach, promoting growth and development. It also mentions a training matrix and discusses building trust and capacity in teams. The summary is intended to provide a high-level overview of the essential information covered in the document.

1. Sharing Team Leadership
For High Engagement
Dr Tim Baker
www.winnersatwork.com.au

2. Dr. Tim Baker

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“Tim’s book nails the eight
characteristics of high-
performing teams. These
characteristics are about
relationships and culture,
rather than just the task at
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5. The Team Identity Model

6. My team don’t have
the skills-set & I find
that I must do all the
work.

7. What we’ll
cover
Team Identity Model
Strategies for Shared
Leadership
Skills Matrix

8. Team Identity
Model

9. Sharing Leadership is tapping into the
full range of insights, skills, and
abilities in the team

11. Stimulating
a climate of
enterprise
• Do I play it safe or show initiative (take
a risk)? is a question people often
grapple with silently at work.
• What’s more, when given a choice
between follow the system & show
initiative, it’s usual for people to take
the safe route.

12. Redefining
the limits of
decision-
making
power
• Redefining the bounds of decision-
making power refers to the extent &
limits of authority a team member can
exercise.
• Use critical incidents

13. Give people
autonomy
• Giving people the freedom to
prioritize & complete their tasks in
their own way is difficult for some
leaders.
• When the leader is a technical expert
in the tasks undertaken by others in a
team, it can be hard not to interfere.
• It’s tough for the technically
proficient leader to bite their tongue
& not intervene. But sharing the
leadership necessitates letting go &
trusting others to get the job done.

14. Don’t second
guess people
• When a leader doesn’t give their
colleagues the freedom & autonomy
to make their own decisions, it sends a
bad message—that they’re second
guessing them.
• A micromanaged employee can
interpretation this in three ways: my
boss doesn’t trust me; my boss doesn’t
think I know what I’m doing; or my
boss thinks they know best. Most likely,
it’ll be taken as all three!

15. The leader as
coach
• Good coaches help other to help
themselves.
• Teach people how to catch a fish rather
than catching the fish for them.
• Coaches ask questions—they encourage
others to think and solve their own
problems.

16. Growth and
development
• Research identifies a connection between shared leadership
and team learning.
• The more people have overall responsibility for team
performance, the more they learn, individually & collectively.
• Sharing the leadership baton builds capacity.
• Capacity building come in the form of learning new tasks, skills,
& learning from reflective practices.
(Hakanen, M., Hakkinen, M., & Soudunsaari, A. (2015). Trust in building high-performance teams—
conceptual approach. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies. 20, 2, 43-53)

17. Training matrix
(Baker, T. (2009). The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press)

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